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SCS Videotape Archives
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This 6-videotape set of videotapes enables you to share the insights of some
of the most exciting luminaries of the current Information Age on the
challenges and perils ahead.
ACM97: The Next 50 Years of Computing, 1997
Tape 1: James Burke (Opening), Gordon Bell, Carver Mead
Tape 2: Joel Birnbaum, Pattie Maes, Nathan Myhrvold
Tape 3: Bran Ferren, William Perry, Fernando Flores
Tape 4: Vinton Cerf, Brenda Laurel, Maurice Wilkes
Tape 5: Elliot Soloway, Reed Hundt, Bruce Sterling
Tape 6: Raj Reddy, Murray Gell-Mann, James Burke (Closing)
The Conference Speakers included:
- Gordon Bell, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Corporation
Discussing: The Folly of Prediction
- Joel Birnbaum, Director, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Discussing: Evolution and impacts of electronic and non-electronic, biological and optical computing technologies
- James Burkes, Science journalist on the Discovery Channel and Scientific
American columnist
Conference Emcee
- Vinton Cerf, Senior Vice President, Data Architecture, MCI
Communications Corporation
Discussing: The future of the internet
- Bran Ferren, Executive Vice President for Creative Technology and
Research and Development, Walt Disney Imagineering, The Walt Disney Company
Discussing: "How information technologies will transform the experience of
telling and listening to stories"
- Fernando Flores, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Business Design
Associates, Inc.
Discussing: The impacts of information technology on business communications
- Murray Gell-Mann, Professor and Co-Chair of the Science Board at
the Santa Fee Institute, Robert Andrews Millikan Professor Emeritus at
Caltech
Discussing: Quality of information
- Reed Hundt, Chair, Forum on Communications & Society, Aspen
Institute
Discussing: The long-term impact of telecommunications
- Brenda Laurel, Actor and Researcher, Computers and Theatre Arts,
Interval Research Corporation
Discussing: The long-term impacts of information technologies on culture
- Pattie Maes, Associate Professor, MIT Media Laboratory
Discussing: How intelligent agents will interact in software ecologies
- Carver Mead, Gordon and Betty Moore Professor of Engineering and
Applied Science, Caltech
Discussing: Semiconductors
- Nathan Myhrvold, Group Vice President of Applications and Content,
Microsoft Corporation
Discussing: The future of software, the software industry, and possibly, the
features of Windows 47
- William Perry, U.S. Secretary of Defense
Discussing: How breakthroughs in information technologies are changing the
face of war, their impact on international security, and how we can prepare
for war and for peace
- Raj Reddy, Dean of the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
University, and Herbert A. Simon University Professor of Computer Science and
Robotics
Discussing: How investments in computing research are likely to pay off. Reddy
presents the results of the June 1996 workshop on strategic directions in
computing research, sponsored by ACM97 and NSF at MIT, and presents his own
ideas on research
- Elliot Soloway, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer
Science, and Professor in the School of Education, University of Michigan
Discussing: The long-term impacts of information technology on K-12 education
- Bruce Sterling, Author, Journalist, Editor, and Critic, science
fiction and nonfiction
Discussing: The dark side impacts of information technology of society
- Maurice Wilkes, Consultant, Olivetti Research Limited
Discussing: Impediments to technological advancement imposed by the laws of
physics.
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