IP: Fwd: ATIP Seminar: Seven Future Computing Challenges

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

>                           ATIP TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR
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>                      Seven Future Computing Challenges
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>                                  Gordon Bell
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>                              Senior Researcher,
>                             Microsoft Corporation
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> Time and Date: May 24, 1999 (Monday), 3:00pm
> Location: Tokyo ATIP offices
> 6-15-21 Roppongi, Harks Roppongi Bldg. 1F Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032
> Fax +81-3-5411-6671, Email: nakamura () atip or jp
>
> Space is limited. Please confirm attendance by fax, e-mail, or web (no
> phone).
>
> ABSTRACT
>
> Fifty years ago the first stored program computer ran at Manchester
> University. In this seminar, we propose challenges for the next five decades
> that will exploit the impressive gains in computing. Several of these
> challenges are inter-related because they depend on analyzing and
> synthesizing human voice and images. Already, humans have failed to
> distinguish between computer and human generated text. At what point will
> this occur when humans and computers are communicating via telephone or
> videophone? Given this capability and the extraordinary advances in
> processing and storage, we should be able to build systems that can record,
> store, and retrieve everything we have read (written), heard (said), and
> seen or been part of.
>
> Biographical Sketch
>
> Gordon Bell is a senior researcher at Microsoft and computer industry
> consultant having spent 23 years at Digital Equipment Corporation as Vice
> President of R&D, where he was responsible for the first mini- and
> time-sharing computers and led the development of DEC's VAX. Bell has been
> involved in the design of many products at Digital and starting a score of
> companies. As the first, Ass't Director for Computing at NSF, he led the
> National Research Network panel that became the NII/GII, and was an author
> of the High Performance Computer and Communications Initiative. Bell is the
> author of books and papers on computing and startups. He is a member of
> various professional organizations, including the National Academy of
> Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and received The
> 1991 National Medal of Technology from President George Bush. He is also
> famous for the "Gordon Bell" award given annually to the world's most
> powerful computing application.