2010年“二十一世纪的计算”学术研讨会

David  Culler  is  a  Professor and  Chair  of Computer  Science  at  the  University  of California, Berkeley, Associate Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, and CTO of Arch Rock Corporation.

Professor Culler received his B.A. from U.C. Berkeley in 1980, and M.S. and Ph.D. from MIT in 1985 and 1989. He has been on the faculty at  Berkeley since 1989, where he holds  the  Howard  Friesen  Chair.   He  is  a  member  of  the  National  Academy  of Engineering,  an ACM Fellow, an  IEEE  Fellow  and  was  selected  for  ACMs  Sigmod Outstanding  Achievement  Award,  Scientific  American’s  ‘Top  50 Researchers’,  and Technology Review’s ’10  Technologies  that  Will Change the World’. He received the NSF Presidential Young Investigators award in 1990 and the NSF Presidential Faculty Fellowship in 1992. He co-chairs  the IETF working  group on  Routing  on Low-Power and  Lossy networks (ROLL). He was the Principal Investigator of the DARPA Network Embedded Systems Technology project that  created  the  open platform for wireless sensor networks based  on TinyOS, and was the founding Director of Intel Research, Berkeley.  He  has  done  seminal  work  on  networks  of  small, embedded wireless devices, planetary-scale  internet  services,  parallel  computer  architecture, parallel programming languages, and  high  performance  communication,  and including RPL, TinyOS,  Berkeley  Motes, PlanetLab,  Networks  of  Workstations (NOW), and Active Messages. He  has  served  on  Technical  Advisory  Boards  for  several  companies, including Inktomi, ExpertCity (now CITRIX on-line), DoCoMo USA and People Power.

Presentation Title: The Internet of Every Thing – a step toward sustainability

Abstract：
Today’s networks allow  us  to  connect  almost everybody, but soon we will have the ability to connect almost every thing of value. This new tier of the internet will connect directly  to  the  physical  world,  allowing  a  real-world web of physical information to stream into and out of  the information processing enterprise, driving decision making and  action.   Broad   research   efforts  over   the   past   decade   have  created  the technological foundations of  this tier, including the integration of sensing, computing, and communication  into  compact,  low-power  devices,  the  development  of robust, communication-centric  embedded operating systems, and the formulation of reliable, energy-efficient  routing  protocols. Recently,  it has become truly the front-tier of the Internet  with  6LoWPAN/ROLL  carrying  IPv6   in   compact   form.  We  now  see  its emergence  as  the  key  to  the  intelligence  of  smart   grids,  green  buildings,  and sustainable industrial processes.

Dr. Hsiao-Wuen Hon is the Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia, located in Beijing, China. Founded in 1998, Microsoft Research Asia has since become one of the best research centers in the world that MIT Technology Review called “the hottest computer science research lab in the world.” Dr. Hon oversees the lab’s research activities and collaborations with academia in Asia Pacific.

An IEEE fellow and a Distinguished Scientist of Microsoft, Dr. Hon is an internationally recognized expert in speech technology. He serves on the editorial board of the international journal of the Communication of the ACM. Dr. Hon has published more than 100 technical papers in international journals and at conferences. He
co-authored a book, Spoken Language Processing, which is a graduate-level textbook and reference book in the area of speech technology in many universities all over the world. Dr. Hon holds three dozens of patents in several technical areas.

Dr. Hon has been with Microsoft since 1995. He joined Microsoft Research Asia in 2004 as a Deputy Managing Director, responsible for research in Internet search, speech & natural language, system, wireless and networking. In addition, he founded and managed search technology center (STC) from 2005 to 2007, the Microsoft internet Search product (Bing) development in Asia Pacific.

Prior to joining Microsoft Research Asia, Dr. Hon was the founding member and architect in Natural Interactive Services Division at Microsoft Corporation. Besides overseeing all architectural and technical aspects of the award winning Microsoft® Speech Server product (Frost & Sullivan’s 2005 Enterprise Infrastructure Product of the Year Award, Speech Technology Magazine’s 2004 Most Innovative Solutions Awards and VSLive! 2004 Editors Choice Award.), Natural User Interface Platform and Microsoft Assistance Platform, he is also responsible for managing and delivering statistical learning technologies and advanced search. Dr. Hon joined Microsoft Research as a senior researcher at 1995 and has been a key contributor of Microsoft’s SAPI and speech engine technologies. He previously worked at Apple Computer, where he led research and development for Apple’s’ Chinese Dictation Kit.

Dr. Hon received Ph.D in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and B.S.
in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University.

Presentation Title：From Ubiquitous Computing to Ubiquitous Harmony

Abstract:
What  has  enabled  human  civilization to develop over the years is the accumulation and  dissemination  of  information and knowledge. In ancient times, information was passed  down  from generation to generation in story form. In the modern world with over  6  billion people, the flow of information and knowledge has become even more critical  in  maintaining  and  improving  life  and well-being throughout the world. The creation  of   Internet   provided   first  the  ubiquitous  inter-network  for  computers (Networked Computing),   then   a   way   to   collect  and  share  information  across computers (Distributed Databases),  then  a  rich  and  pervasive  way  of connecting people (Social Network),  and  eventually the connection of all physical objects in the world  (Internet of Things).  In  this  talk,  Dr. Hon  will  provide  a  glimpse  of  some technologies  at   MSR   Asia  that  will  continue  toward  this  evolution  of  utilizing information  and  knowledge   to   enable   the   harmonious  connection  of  people,  society, and the environment.

John Hopcroft is the IBM Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics at Cornell University. He started his career on the Faculty at Princeton in 1964 and moved to Cornell in 1967. In 1987 he became the chair of the Department of Computer Science. In 1993 he became Associate Dean for College Affairs, and in 1994 he became Dean of the College of Engineering in which job he served until 2001 when he returned to the Department of Computer Science.

He earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Seattle University in 1961 and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1964. He has honorary degrees from Seattle University, the National College of Ireland, the University of Sydney, and St Petersburg State University. He is an honorary professor of the Beijing Institute of Technology, Yunnan University and an Einstein Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His current research interests are in the area of information capture and access.

Hopcroft has served on numerous advisory boards including the Air Force Science Advisory Board, NASA’s Space Sciences Board and National Research Council’s Board on Computer Science and Telecommunications. In 1986 he was awarded the Turing Award by the Association for Computing Machinery and in 1992, President H. W. Bush appointed him to the National Science Board, which oversees the National Science Foundation. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He serves on the Packard Foundation’s Science Advisory Board, Microsoft’s Technical Advisory Board for Research Asia and the advisory boards of IIIT Delhi and the College of Engineering at Seattle University. In 2005 he received the IEEE Harry Goode Memorial Award, in 2007 received the CRA Distinguished Service Award, in 2009 the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, and in 2010 the IEEE von Neumann Medal.

Presentation Title：Computing and the Future

Abstract：
Computing is entering into all aspects of our lives.  Today we can do many things that were impossible  just  a  few  years  ago.   We  can  track the flow of ideas in scientific literature,  study  the  structure  of  social  interactions  of millions of people, or obtain information on  almost  any  topic.  This talk will present a view of the future driven by computing and the internet.  Along with this view the talk will also discuss the science base that needs to be developed to support these activities.

Barbara Liskov (born Barbara Jane Huberman in 1939) is a computer scientist. She is currently  the  Ford  Professor  of  Engineering  in  the  MIT  School  of   Engineering’s Electrical  Engineering  and Computer Science department and an Institute Professor at  the  Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She earned her BA in mathematics at the  University  of  California, Berkeley in 1961. In 1968 Stanford University made her the  first woman in the United States to be awarded a Ph.D. from a computer science department. The topic of her Ph.D. thesis was a computer program to play chess end games.

Liskov  has  led   many  significant  projects,  including the Venus operating system, a small, low-cost and interactive timesharing system; the design and implementation of CLU;  Argus,  the  first  high-level  language  to support implementation of distributed programs  and  to  demonstrate the  technique  of  promise  pipelining;  and Thor, an object-oriented  database  system.  With Jeannette Wing, she developed a particular definition  of  subtyping,  commonly  known  as  the  Liskov substitution principle. She leads  the  Programming  Methodology Group at MIT, with a current research focus in Byzantine fault tolerance and distributed computing.

Liskov  is  a   member  of  the  National  Academy  of  Engineering  and a fellow of the American  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences  and   of   the  Association  for  Computing Machinery (ACM).  In  2004  she  won the John von Neumann Medal for “fundamental contributions to programming languages, programming methodology, and distributed systems”. She is the author of three books and over a hundred technical papers.

Liskov  received   the  2008  Turing Award from the ACM for her work in the design of programming  languages  and  software methodology that led to the development of object-oriented   programming.  Specifically,   Liskov   developed   two   programming languages, CLU in the 1970s and Argus in the 1980s. The ACM cited her contributions to  the   practical  and theoretical foundations of “programming language and system design,   especially   related  to  data  abstraction,  fault  tolerance,  and   distributed computing.”

Presentation Title：The Power of Abstraction

Abstract:
Abstraction  is  at  the  center  of  much  work  in Computer Science.  It encompasses finding  the  right  interface   for  a system as well as finding an effective design for a system   implementation.    Furthermore,   abstraction    is   the   basis   for   program construction, allowing programs to be built in a modular fashion.  This talk will discuss how the abstraction mechanisms we use today came to be, how they are supported in programming languages, and some possible areas for future research.

As senior vice president, Richard (Rick) F. Rashid oversees worldwide operations for Microsoft Research, an organization encompassing more than 850 researchers across six labs worldwide. Under Rashid’s leadership, Microsoft Research conducts both basic and applied research across disciplines that include algorithms and theory; human-computer interaction; machine learning; multimedia and graphics; search; security; social computing; and systems, architecture, mobility and networking. His team collaborates with the world’s foremost researchers in academia, industry and government on initiatives to advance the state-of-the-art of computing and to help ensure the future of Microsoft’s products.

After joining Microsoft in September 1991, Rashid served as director and vice president of the Microsoft Research division and was promoted to his current role in 2000. In his earlier roles, Rashid led research efforts on operating systems, networking and multiprocessors, and authored patents in such areas as data compression, networking and operating systems. He managed projects that catalyzed the development of Microsoft’s interactive TV system and also directed Microsoft’s first e-commerce group. Rashid was the driving force behind the creation of the team that later developed into Microsoft’s Digital Media Division.

Before joining Microsoft, Rashid was professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). As a faculty member, he directed the design and implementation of several influential network operating systems and published extensively about computer vision, operating systems, network protocols and communications security. During his tenure, Rashid developed the Mach multiprocessor operating system, which has been influential in the design of modern operating systems and remains at the core of several commercial systems.

Rashid’s research interests have focused on artificial intelligence, operating systems, networking and multiprocessors. He has participated in the design and implementation of the University of Rochester’s Rochester Intelligent Gateway operating system, the Rochester Virtual Terminal Management System, the CMU Distributed Sensor Network Testbed, and CMU’s SPICE distributed personal computing environment. He also co-developed of one of the earliest networked computer games, “Alto Trek,” during the mid-1970s.

Rashid was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2003 and presented with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Emanuel R. Piore Award and the SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award in 2008. He was also inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2008. In addition, Rashid is a member of the National Science Foundation Computer Directorate Advisory Committee and a past member of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency UNIX Steering Committee and the Computer Science Network Executive Committee. He is also a former chairman of the Association for Computing Machinery Software System Awards Committee.

Rashid received master of science (1977) and doctoral (1980) degrees in computer science from the University of Rochester. He graduated with honors in mathematics and comparative literature from Stanford University in 1974.

Presentation Title：Microsoft Research: Helping to Keep Microsoft a Step Ahead

Abstract:
A  key  component of Microsoft Research’s mission is its unflagging dedication to help Microsoft  deliver  leading-edge  products  to  the  marketplace.  We believe that,  by pursuing basic research, we can develop a deep portfolio of technology and expertise that  can  help  keep  the  company  agile and competitive in a world that is changing faster than ever.  Microsoft  Research  achieves  this objective by a variety of means, such   as   a  dedicated   technology-transfer   team   that   connects   product-group challenges with researcher solutions. Virtually every Microsoft product has benefited from  our  research  efforts,  and  that drumbeat of contributions will only intensify in years to come. 

Satya is an  experimental  computer  scientist  who  has pioneered research in mobile and  pervasive  computing.  One outcome is the open-source Coda File System, which supports  distributed  file access in low-bandwidth and intermittent wireless networks through  disconnected  and   bandwidth-adaptive  operation.  The  Coda  concepts  of hoarding,  reintegration  and  application-specific  conflict   resolution  can be found in the hotsync capability of PDAs today. Key ideas from Coda have been incorporated by Microsoft into the IntelliMirror component of Windows 2000 and the Cached Exchange Mode of  Outlook  2003.  Another  outcome of Satya’s work is Odyssey,a set of open-source  operating  system  extensions  that  enable  mobile  applications  to  adapt to variation  in  critical  resources  such  as  network  bandwidth  and  energy. Coda and Odyssey are building blocks in Project Aura, a research initiative at Carnegie Mellon to explore  distraction-free  ubiquitous computing.   His most recent work in this space is Internet Suspend/Resume,  a hands-free  approach to mobile computing that exploits virtual  machine  technology  to  liberate  personal  computing  state  from  hardware.  Satya  is  a co-inventor  of  many  supporting  technologies  relevant  to  mobile  and pervasive  computing,  such  as  data staging, lookaside caching, translucent caching and application-aware adaptation.  He is also a co-inventor of the Diamond approach to interactive,  non-indexed  search  of  complex  and loosely-organized data such as digital  photographs  and  medical  images.  Early  in his career, Satya was a principal architect  and  implementor of the Andrew File System (AFS) which pioneered the use of scalable file caching, ACL-based security, and volume-based system administration for  enterprise-scale   information   sharing.   AFS   was  commercialized by IBM,  is  in widespread  use  today  as OpenAFS, and has heavily influenced the NFS v4network file system protocol standard that was published in April 2003.

Satya  is  the  Carnegie  Group  Professor  of  Computer  Science  at  Carnegie Mellon University.  From  May  2001  to May 2004 he served as the founding director of Intel Research  Pittsburgh,   one  of  four   university-affiliated  research  labs  established worldwide  by  Intel  to  create disruptive information  technologies through its Open Collaborative  Research  model.  Satya  received  the  PhD  in Computer Science from Carnegie  Mellon,  after Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology,  Madras.  He is a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE, and was the founding Editor-in-Chief ofIEEE Pervasive Computing.

Presentation Title：Mobile Computing: the Next Decade and Beyond

Abstract:
“Information  at  your  fingertips  anywhere,  anytime”  has  been  the  driving vision of mobile computing for the past two decades.  Through relentless pursuit of this vision, spurring  innovations  in wireless technology, energy-efficient portable hardware and adaptive  software,  we  have  now  largely  attained this goal.  Ubiquitous email and Web  access  is  a  reality that is experienced by millions of users worldwide through their BlackBerries, iPhones, Windows Mobile, and other portable devices.

What  will  inspire  our  research  in   mobile  computing  over  the  next  decade  and beyond?   We  observe  that  our  future  is  being  shaped  by  two different tectonic forces,  each with the potential to radically change the mobile computing landscape.    One  force  is the  emergence  of  mobile  devices as rich sensors, a role that may soon dominate   their   current   function   as   communication   devices   and    information appliances.  We  use   the term “rich” to connote the depth and complexity about the real  world  that   is  recorded,  typically through image capture.  This is in contrast to simple scalar data that has typically been the focus of the sensor network community in the context of  energy-impoverished “smart-dust” sensors.   The other force is the convergence of mobile computing and cloud computing.  This will enable the emergence of   new   near-real-time   applications   that   are   no  longer  limited  by  energy  or computational  constraints  that  are inherent to mobility.   The intersection of  these immense  forces  in   the next decade will lead to many new research challenges and business opportunities.

Chuck  Thacker  joined  Microsoft  in  1997  as  Director of Advanced Systems to assist in  the  establishment of Microsoft’s Cambridge Research Lab, where he was involved in  recruiting,  defining  the  research  agenda,  publicity,  and  establishing  the  lab’s operating  procedures.  At  the  end  of  this  two-year  assignment,  he  returned  to the  U.S.  and  worked  on  the  first  Tablet  PC.  In  2005,  he  returned  to Microsoft Research,  where  he is building a group to engage in computer architecture research at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley Campus.

Before  joining   Microsoft,  Thacker  worked  for  the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC),  and   later  at the Digital Equipment Systems Research Center. He served as project leader of the MAXC timesharing system, and as the chief designer on Alto, the first  personal  computer  to  use  a bit-mapped display and mouse for user interface. Thacker  is  also  the  co-inventor  of the Ethernet local area network, the DEC Firefly multiprocessor workstation, and the AN1 and AN2 networks.

He  has  published  widely  and  holds  numerous  patents  in  the  areas of computer architecture  and  networking,  and  has  led  a  number  of  seminal projects in these areas.  Thacker was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Swiss Federal Institute of  Technology,  and is a distinguished alumnus of the Computer Science Department at  the  University  of  California.  He  is  a member of the IEEE, a fellow of the ACM, a Member  of  the  American  Association  of  Arts  and  Sciences,  and a member of the National  Academy  of  Engineering,  which  in  2004  awarded  him  the Charles Stark Draper Prize (with A. Kay, B. Lampson, and R. Taylor) for the development of the first networked distributed personal computer system.

In 2007  Thacker received the IEEE’s John Von Neumann medal, which is awarded for outstanding achievements in computer-related science and technology, for his central role in the creation of the personal computer and the development of networked computer systems. In 2007 Thacker was  also given an award from the Computer History Museum for his work on the Alto and “innovations in networked personal computer systems and laser printing technologies.”

Presentation Title：Improving the Future by Examining the Past

Abstract:
During the last fifty years, the technology underlying computer systems has improved dramatically.  As  technology has evolved, designers have made a series of choices in the way it was applied in computers. In some cases, decisions that were made in the twentieth  century  make  less sense in the twenty-first. Conversely, paths not taken might now be more attractive given the state of technology today, particularly in light of  the  limits the field is facing, such as the increasing gap between processor speed and storage access times and the difficulty of cooling today’s computers.

In  this  talk,  Chuck  Thacker  will  discuss  some  of these choices and suggest some possible changes that might make computing better in the twenty-first century.