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Abstract
The field of computer science is changing rapidly due to the increase power of computing, the size and complexity of problems we deal with, the merging of computing and communication, and the availability of vast amounts of information in digital form. Because of this research in programming languages, compilers, operating systems, and algorithms that have been a major focus of researchers in the past will be supplemented by new areas. In the future we will deal with social networks, tracing the flow of ideas in the scientific literature, high dimensional data, searching, ranking, collaborative filtering and detecting changes in data or transactions before they become obvious. This talk will explore research topics in several of these areas: tracking communities in social networks, tracing the follow of ideas in the scientific literature, and understanding high dimensional data.
Bio of the Speaker
John E. Hopcroft is the IBM Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics in Computer Science at Cornell University. He received his BS (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 Sciences, 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, the Association of Computing Machinery, and the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics. 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, the Computing Research Association’s Distinguished Service Award in 2007, and the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award in 2009. He has honorary degrees from Seattle University, the National College of Ireland, and the University of Sydney and is an honorary professor of the Beijing Institute of Technology. He serves on the Packard Foundation’s Science Advisory Board, Microsoft Technical advisory board for Research Asia and the advisory boards of IIIT Delhi and the College of Engineering at Seattle University. |
