IP: Fwd: ATIP Seminar: Seven Future Computing Challenges

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

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>                           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
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>Space is limited. Please confirm attendance by fax, e-mail, or web (no
>phone).
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>ABSTRACT
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>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.
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>Biographical Sketch
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>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.