ing have either substantial or preponderant computer science content:
˲ Secure cyberspace
˲ Enhance virtual reality
˲ Advance health information systems
˲ Advance personalized learning
˲ Engineer better medicines
˲ Engineer the tools of scientific discovery
˲ Reverse-engineer the brain
˲ Prevent nuclear terror (to a great extent a sensor network and data mining problem)
These are, in every way, visions that can shape the intellectual future of our field, catalyze research investment and public support, and attract the best and brightest minds of a new generation. And there are many more such visions:
˲ Create the future of networking
˲ Empower the developing world through appropriate information technology
˲ Design automobiles that don’t crash
SOURCE: NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL. ASSESSMEn T OF DEPAR TMEn T OF DEFEnSE BASIC RESEARCH. THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS, WASHINGTON, D.C., 2005.
˲ Build truly scalable computing systems
˲ Engineer advanced “robotic prosthetics” —the field of Neurobotics
˲ Instrument your body as thoroughly as your automobile
˲ Engineer biology (synthetic biology)
˲ Achieve quantum computing
It is very difficult to imagine a field with greater opportunity to change the world.
The role of the Computing Community Consortium is to help our field “put the meat on the bones” of visions such as these. For each of these visions—and for others—we must work together to build a research community, lay out a research roadmap, and acquire momentum.
One way in which CCC is doing this is to sponsor a series of workshops on various topics: thus far, “big data computing,” “cyber-physical systems,” visions for theoretical computer science, the future of robotics, and network science and engineering. CCC is actively soliciting proposals for additional workshops from members of the research community.
the “tire tracks” diagram illustrates time from concept to billion-dollar industry.
1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2005 Timesharing
Client/server computing
Graphics
CTSS, Multics / BSD Unix SDS 940, 360/67, VMS
Berkeley, CMU, CERN PARC, DEC, IBM Novell, EMC, Sun, Oracle
Sketchpad, Utah GM/IBM, Xerox, Microsoft E&S, SGI, ATI, Adobe
Entertainment
Internet
LANs
Workstations
Graphical user interfaces
VLSI design
Spacewar (MIT), Trek (Rochester) Atari, Nintendo, SGI, Pixar
ARPANET, Aloha, Internet Pup DECnet, TCP/IP
Rings, Hubnet Ethernet, Datakit, Autonet LANs, switched Ethernet
Lisp machine, Stanford Xerox Alto Xerox Star, Apollo, Sun
Engelbart / Rochester Alto, Smalltalk Star, Mac, Microsoft
Berkeley, Caltech, MOSIS
RISC processors
Relational databases
Parallel databases
Data mining
Parallel computing
RAID /disk servers
Portable communication
World Wide Web
Speech recognition
Broadband l in last mile
many
Berkeley, Stanford IBM 801 SUN, SGI, IBM, HP Berkeley, Wisconsin IBM Oracle, IBM, Sybase
Tokyo, Wisconsin, UCLA IBM, ICL ICL, Teradata, Tandem
Wisconsin, Stanford IBM, Arbor IRI, Arbor, Plato
Illiac 4, CMU, Caltech, HPC IBM, Intel CM- 5, Teradata, Cray T3D
Berkeley Striping/Datamesh, Petal many
Berkeley, Purdue (CDMA) Linkabit, Hughes Qualcomm
CERN, Illinois (Mosaic) Alta Vista Netscape, Yahoo, Google
CMU, SRI, MIT Bell, IBM, Dragon Dragon, IBM
Stanford, UCLA Bellcore (Telcordia) Amati, Alcatel, Broadcom
1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2005
University Industry R&D
The topics are ordered roughly by increasing date of $1 B industry.
Products
$1 B market
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