The National Science Foundation created the Computing Community Consortium to stimulate the computing research community to envision and pursue longer-range, more audacious research challenges.  The next ten years of advances in computer science should be far more significant, and far more interesting, than the past ten. This talk will review the progress that the field has made, and present a number of "grand challenge" problems that we should be prepared to tackle in the coming decade.

Brief Bio:

Ed Lazowska holds the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. Lazowska received his A.B. from Brown University and his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. His research and teaching concern the design, implementation, and analysis of high performance computing and communication systems. He chaired the Computing Research Association Board of Directors from 1997-2001, the NSF CISE Advisory Committee from 1998-99, the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee from 2003-05, and the DARPA Information Science and Technology Study Group from 2004-06. He is a member of the Microsoft Research Technical Advisory Board, and serves as a board member or technical advisor to a number of high-tech companies and venture firms. He recently became the inaugural chair of the Computing Community Consortium, an NSF-sponsored effort to engage the computing research community in envisioning more audacious research challenges. Lazowska is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and a Fellow of ACM, IEEE, and AAAS. Twenty one Ph.D. students and twenty three Masters students have completed their degrees working with him.

For a more information on our speaker please visit: http://lazowska.cs.washington.edu/

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