Daniel A. Reed
Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Corporation
Fellow of the ACM, the IEEE and the AAAS

Abstract

Computing continues to transform how we work and live, how we socialize and play, and how we innovate and conduct research. To see the depth of this transformation, one need only consider the effects of the web and social networks, digital media, broadband networking, smart phones, multiplayer games, electronic commerce and computational science. In today’s global village, time and space rarely limit interaction. What will the future bring, in a world where ubiquitous mobile sensors, diverse computing devices, and scalable cloud infrastructure and services enable natural interaction and further blur the boundaries between the cyber and physical worlds,? This talk examines the technical challenges and opportunities beneath such a vision of natural interaction and experiential computing.

Biographical Information

Daniel A. Reed is Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President for the Extreme Computing Group, responsible for R&D on parallel and extreme scale computing, including cloud infrastructure. Previously, he was the Chancellor’s Eminent Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as the Director of the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) and the Chancellor’s Senior Advisor for Strategy and Innovation for UNC Chapel Hill. Dr. Reed has served as a member of the U.S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) and as a member of the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC). He recently chaired a review of the U.S. networking and IT research portfolio and completed two terms as chair of the board of directors of the Computing Research Association (CRA).

He was previously Head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He has also been Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at UIUC, where he also led National Computational Science Alliance. He was also one of the principal investigators and chief architect for the NSF TeraGrid. He received his PhD in computer science in 1983 from Purdue University and is a fellow of the ACM, IEEE and AAAS.