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!”
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