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Computing, Environment and Life Science Seminar
"Disruptive Challenges and Opportunities for the Computing Sciences"

DATE: December 9, 2010
TIME: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
SPEAKER: Andrew A. Chien, Professor, University of California, San Diego
LOCATION: Building 240 Conference Room 1416, Argonne National Laboratory
HOST: Rob Ross

Description:
Three decades of Moore’s law and dramatic advances in mathematics, algorithms, software, and parallelism have enabled the computing sciences’ rapid growth in importance to the advancement of science and engineering. It is now widely accepted that computational methods have joined theory and experiment as the “third pillar of science”. Computing has transformed the economy and society with equal vigor, driving business efficiency, globalization and whole new forms of economic and social activities.
Computation – and more broadly information technology -- is poised to remain an engine of dramatic change. However, indications are the coming decade will be characterized by disruptive changes quite different than the past decade. We outline a few of the major disruptive changes (compute, storage, IOT, heterogeneity, cloud/large-scale, etc.) which are on the horizon. We will discuss how these changes create deep research challenges, and exciting new technical and scientific opportunities.

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