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Computer Science: Changing the World Ed Lazowska Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering University of Washington Chair Computing Community Consortium http://lazowska.cs.washington.edu/cs.achievements.pdf

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Computer Science: Changing the World

Ed Lazowska

Bill & Melinda Gates Chair inComputer Science & Engineering

University of Washington

ChairComputing Community Consortium

http://lazowska.cs.washington.edu/cs.achievements.pdf

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Today …

Forty years ago …The past thirty years …The most recent ten years …The coming decade …

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Forty years ago …

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[Peter Lee, DARPA, and Pat Lincoln, SRI]

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With forty years hindsight, which had the greatest impact?

Unless you’re big into Tang and Velcro (or sex and drugs), the answer is clear …

And so is the reason …

EXPONENTIALS US

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The past thirty years …

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The most recent ten years …

SearchScalabilityDigital mediaMobilityeCommerceThe CloudSocial networking and crowd-sourcing

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A day without the Internet and all that it enablesA day without diagnostic medical imagingA day during which automobiles lacked electronic ignition, antilock brakes, and electronic stability controlA day without digital media – without wireless telephones, high-definition televisions, MP3 audio, DVD video, computer animation, and videogamesA day during which aircraft could not fly, travelers had to navigate without benefit of GPS, weather forecasters had no models, banks and merchants could not transfer funds electronically, factory automation ceased to function, and the US military lacked technological supremacy

Imagine spending a day without information technology

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A day without the Internet and all that it enablesA day without diagnostic medical imagingA day during which automobiles lacked electronic ignition, antilock brakes, and electronic stability controlA day without digital media – without wireless telephones, high-definition televisions, MP3 audio, DVD video, computer animation, and videogamesA day during which aircraft could not fly, travelers had to navigate without benefit of GPS, weather forecasters had no models, banks and merchants could not transfer funds electronically, factory automation ceased to function, and the US military lacked technological supremacy

Imagine spending a day without information technology

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The coming decade …

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Predominant CS component

Significant CS component

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We put the “smarts” in …

Smart homesSmart carsSmart bodiesSmart robotsThe data deluge (smart science)Virtual and augmented realitySmart crowds and human-computer systems

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Is this a great time, or what?!?!