On March 25th, the Computing Community Consortium organized a spectacular daylong symposium at the Library of Congress:  “Computing Research that Changed the World:  Reflections and Perspectives.”

Videos of the presentations (as well as slides) are now available on the symposium website.  See http://www.cra.org/ccc/locsymposium_slides.php for the complete agenda with individual links, or see our YouTube channel, http://www.youtube.com/computingresearch.

Talks at the Symposium included:

• Introductory Session
  • Ed Lazowska (University of Washington), “Changing the World”

• Session 1: The Internet and the World Wide Web
  • Alfred Spector (Google), “Why We’re Able to Google”
  • Eric Brewer (UC Berkeley), “The Magic of the ‘Cloud’: Supercomputers for Everybody, Everywhere”
  • Luis von Ahn (Carnegie Mellon University), “Human Computation”

• Session 2: Evolving Foundations
  • Barbara Liskov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), “Security of Online Information”
  • Daphne Koller (Stanford University), “Learning to Improve Our Lives”
  • Jon Kleinberg (Cornell University), “Global Information Networks”

• Session 3: The Transformation of the Sciences via Computation
  • Larry Smarr (UC San Diego), “Supercomputers and Supernetworks are Transforming Research”
  • Chris Johnson (University of Utah), “Computing and Visualizing the Future of Medicine”
  • Gene Myers (Howard Hughes Medical Institute), “Zooming In On Life”

• Session 4: Computing Everywhere!
  • Deborah Estrin (UCLA), “Sensing Everywhere!”
  • Pat Hanrahan (Stanford University), “Pixels Everywhere!”
  • Rodney Brooks (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), “Robots Everywhere!”