Slides from all speakers at the remarkable March 25th Library of Congress symposium “Computing Research that Changed the World: Reflections and Perspectives” are now available: http://www.cra.org/ccc/locsymposium_slides.php Videos of all talks will be available soon. Previous posts describing the symposium are available here and here. Many thanks to our speakers for preparing and delivering such wonderful talks, and for making their materials available to the community at large.
Computing Community Consortium Blog
The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.
Library of Congress symposium slides are up!
April 1st, 2009 / in policy, research horizons, resources, workshop reports / by Ed LazowskaMore on “Computing Research that Changed the World”
March 29th, 2009 / in policy, research horizons, resources, workshop reports / by Ed LazowskaSusan Graham provided a great overview in a post a few days ago of the Computing Community Consortium’s March 25th day-long Library of Congress symposium, “Computing Research that Changed the World: Reflections and Perspectives.” I thought I’d provide a few additional details — as well as a reminder that all materials (slides, videos, a summary booklet, etc.) will be available on the CCC website in the very near future. Inspiration for the program came from a large number of responses from the computing research community to two November CCC blog posts — this was your symposium! Each of the talks was superb. Honestly, in 35 years in the field, I’ve […]
My Day at the Library of Congress
March 26th, 2009 / in policy, workshop reports / by Peter LeeA contribution from Susan Graham, the Pehong Chen Professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley, and co-chair of the CCC Council: I’ve just returned from the CCC-organized Symposium on “Computing Research that Changed the World.” (http://www.cra.org/ccc/locsymposium.php) It was a marvelous experience. There were 12 wonderful 15-minute talks that highlighted major achievements in computing in the last 10-20 years, the research advances that enabled them, and the opportunities to move forward in the various fields in the years ahead. In the morning, Al Spector outlined the technologies that enable us to google, Eric Brewer explained the emergence of the cloud, and Luis von Ahn showed us how […]
The Mystic Arts of Emergency Informatics
March 20th, 2009 / in research horizons / by Peter LeeRescue Robots at the Cologne Germany Building Collapse I finished The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston just before the City Archives collapsed in Cologne, Germany, on March 3. I soon found myself at my 11th disaster, but unlike Webb, the protagonist who must come to grips with the events that led him to a janitorial job cleaning up trauma sites, I was clear on why I was there standing in the rain. I was there in the hope that we could make a difference with technology — that we could enable the fire rescue teams to save a life, prevent a responder’s death, or […]
A Symposium on “Computing Research that Changed the World”
March 15th, 2009 / in research horizons / by Peter LeeEd Lazowska and Peter Lee on November 4 proposed a brainstorming exercise to identify about a dozen game-changing advances in computing research over the past 20 years. A large number of people responded, as summarized in a November 30 post. The CCC has organized a really important symposium on March 25 that has short talks on 12 such advances. Check out http://www.cra.org/ccc/locsymposium.php for details. I think that this symposium is really important because with a new administration in Washington, we have people who appreciate the importance of fundamental research. If we increase the size of the funding pie, all of us will benefit. The best way to increase the size […]
Does Better Security Depend on a Better Internet?
February 21st, 2009 / in big science, research horizons / by Peter LeeLast week the New York Times printed an article by John Markoff entitled, Do We Need a New Internet? In the article, Markoff states, “…there is a growing belief among engineers and security experts that Internet security and privacy have become so maddeningly elusive that the only way to fix the problem is to start over.” Stanford’s Nick McKeown is quoted in the article, “Unless we’re willing to rethink today’s Internet, we’re just waiting for a series of public catastrophes.” The article speculates that in a new network architecture, some users would “give up their anonymity and certain freedoms in return for safety.” It’s certainly exciting to see core computer […]
