September 11-12, 2001
in Seattle,
WA
Human Interface Technology Laboratory
University of Washington
Monday, September 10, 12:30 - 4:30 p.m.
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• New forms of computing
• Energy and fuel sources
• Web enhancements
• Sensation technologies
• Smart spaces
• Language networks
• Mediated and augmented reality
2001:That mystical Space
Odyssey deadline when machines rule the world. Though
we haven’t yet
crossed the threshold when machines take over, we are
at a point where agents and bots will do our bidding,
with our authority, but often without our knowledge.
Computer "intelligence" will be pervasive,
embedded everywhere, and personalization engines will
recognize us wherever we go.
The future of computing
will be increasingly multi-disciplinary, with approaches
to hardware and software development
taking place between computer science, molecular
biology, chemistry, and physics. We’ll have
computing systems based on molecular logic and memory,
with nano-size
wires, which interface with silicon or biological
systems. Nearer term, we’ll see huge strides
in computers that understand and respond to human
gestures and other
sensory inputs.
Future systems will be far more
flexible than today, able to reconfigure and even
fully evolve
themselves.
Without reconfigurable machines, there is no way
out of the current microchip design crisis. Reconfigurability
can also cure wildly expensive, shrinking product
life
cycles and achieve product longevity through new
horizons of flexibility.
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Dr.John Delaney, Chair,
Neptune Project, and Professor, Marine Geology and
Geophysics, University
of Washington
Dr. Chris Diorio, Assistant
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
University of Washington
Dr. Eric Horvitz, Senior
Researcher, Adaptive Systems & Interaction
Group, Microsoft Research
Mr.Brewster Kahle, Co-founder, President and CEO, Alexa
Internet
Dr. Ed Lazowska, Professor & Chair, Department
of Computer Science & Engineering, University of
Washington, and holder of the Bill & Melinda Gates
Chair in Computer Science
Dr. Ralph Merkle, Principal
Fellow, Zyvex
Dr. A. Richard Newton, Dean,
College of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Yoram Ofek, President & CTO,
Synchrodyne Networks, Inc.
Dr. Andrew J. Viterbi, Co-founder,
QUALCOMM
Mr. Matt Westervelt, Founder,
Seattle Wireless
Mr., Richard F. Rutkowski, President & Chief
Executive Officer, Microvision, Inc., www.mvis.com
Ms. Louise Wannier, Co-founder & CEO,
Enfish Technology, Inc., www.enfish.com
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The mission of the Human Interface
Technology Laboratory (HIT Lab) is to develop interfaces
between people and machines that unlock the power
of human intelligence and link minds. The HIT Lab
is a multidisciplinary research environment of about
120 people, including undergraduate and graduate
students, faculty associates, professional staff
and visiting scholars. Lab projects encompass medicine,
education, design and entertainment applications
with an emphasis on the design and development of
virtual and augmented reality interfaces.
In addition
to licensing technology to established companies,
the HIT Lab has spun off or helped start
18 companies over the past ten years. Recent inventions
have included the virtual retinal display (VRD)
and the MAGIC BOOK. The Lab also conducts research
on
pain alleviation and the treatment of phobias using
immersive virtual environments.
The HIT Lab research
been featured on Scientific American Frontiers,
NOVA, Horizon and Tomorrow’s
World. The Lab received the prestigious Discover
award for Technology Innovation for the development
of the Virtual Retinal Display and was recently
awarded the Satava Award for our work in bringing
new virtual
interface technology to medicine.
Further information is available at http://www.hitl.washington.edu/.
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