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A General-Audience Talk: How Computing May Change Our World

September 22nd, 2020 / in Announcements, CCC, CRA, research horizons, Research News / by Helen Wright

Mark D. Hill

While the Computing Research Association’s Computing Community Consortium (CCC) works to catalyze the computing community for the public good, we have rarely prepared talks suitable for the non-computer-scientist public. Fortunately, CCC Chair Emeritus Mark D. Hill of the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently prepared a well-received general-audience talk for Participatory Learning And Teaching Organization (PLATO), a senior organization that arranges informative lectures, classes, and field trips, all virtual now.

Prof. Hill’s one-hour talk has the immodest title “How Computing May Change Our World” (YouTube Video & Slide PDF). It discusses that, while computing has already changed how we communicate, work, and play, more big impacts are afoot. Prof. Hill gives insight into and discusses the impacts of three important examples on the horizon:

(a) why artificial intelligence will free humans from more repetitive tasks,

(b) how quantum computing will eventually enhance discovery, and

(c) how computing and very human issues like fairness will increasingly interact.

Disclaimer: Posts on this blog report on happenings, opportunities, and issues that arise in the broad computing research community, and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the CCC or the National Science Foundation.


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A General-Audience Talk: How Computing May Change Our World

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