Bio:
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.
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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. |