Expositor: John Hopcroft
Institución: IBM Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics, Cornell University Turing Award 1986, Harry H. Goode Memorial Award 2005, Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award 2008, IEEE John von Neumann Medal 2010
Cuándo Lunes 10 de Agosto, 2015 12:00
Dónde Auditorio "Alfonso Nápoles Gándara"
Over the last 40 years, computer science research was focused on making computers useful. Areas included programming languages, compilers, operating systems, data structures and algorithms. These are still important topics but with the merging of computing and communication, the emergence of social networks, and the large amount of information in digital form, focus is shifting to applications such as the structure of networks and extracting information from large data sets. This talk will give a brief vision of the future and then an introduction to the science base that needs to be formed to support these new directions.