Computer Science: Past, Present, and Future
Speaker: Professor Ed Lazowska , Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering
Date: May 17 2007
Time: 4:00PM to 5:30PM
Location: 32-123
Host: Victor Zue, CSAIL
Contact: Colleen Russell, 617.253.0145, crussell@csail.mit.edu
Relevant URL: The National Science Foundation has created the Computing Community
Consortium to engage computing researchers in an ongoing process of
visioning - of imagining what we might contribute to the world, in terms
that we and the world might both appreciate.
This process is just beginning, and I'd like to take this opportunity to
engage you. The next ten years of advances in computer science should
be far more significant, and far more interesting, than the past ten. I
will review the progress that our field has made, and I'll present a
number of "grand challenge" problems that we should be prepared to
tackle in the coming decade. I'll invite your contributions -- MIT has
always "swung for the fences" and there is no better place to have this
discussion.
Bio:
Ed Lazowska holds the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science &
Engineering at the University of Washington, where he has been on the
faculty since 1977. Lazowska's research and teaching concern the
design, implementation, and analysis of high performance computing and
communication systems. He is a Member of the National Academy of
Engineering, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences,
ACM, IEEE, and AAAS. He has chaired the NSF CISE Advisory Committee,
the DARPA Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Study Group, and the
Computing Research Association Board of Directors. He has been an
advisor to Microsoft Research since its inception in 1991, and serves as
a board member or technical advisor to a number of high-tech companies
and venture firms.
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