Dr. John E. HOPCROFT
IBM Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics,
Cornell University
1986 Turing Award Recipient
美国康奈尔大学计算机系工程学与应用数学教授
1986年图灵奖获得者
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/jeh/

BIO:
John E. Hopcroft is the IBM Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics in Computer Science at Cornell University. He received his B.S. (1961) from Seattle University and his M.S. (1962) and Ph.D. (1964) in electrical engineering from Stanford University. His research centers on theoretical aspects of computer science. He served as dean of Cornell University’s College of Engineering from 1994 until 2001. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the Association of Computing Machinery. In 1986 he was awarded the A. M. Turing Award for his research contributions. In 1992, he was appointed by President Bush to the National Science Board, which oversees the National Science Foundation, and served through May 1998. He received the IEEE Harry Goode Memorial Award in 2005 and the Computing Research Association’s Distinguished Service Award in 2007. He serves on the Packard Foundation’s Science Advisory Board and is a member of the board of directors of the Boyce Thompson Institute.

Presentation Title: Future Directions in Computer Science

Abstract:
The last forty years have seen computer science evolve as a major academic discipline. Today the field is undergoing a major change. Some of the drivers of this change are the internet, the World Wide Web, large quantities of information in digital form and wide spread use of computers for accessing information. This change is requiring universities to revise the content of computer science programs. This talk will cover the changes in the theoretical foundations needed to support information access in the coming years.