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4th USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies and Systems (COOTS)April 27-30, 1998, Eldorado Hotel, Santa Fe, New MexicoKeynote: The Shape of Things to ComeRick Rashid, Microsoft ResearchApril 29, 1998, 9 AM The relentless pace of progress in hardware and software technology will dramatically change computing over the next ten years. Software technologies once considered esoteric such as natural language processing, Bayesian reasoning, computer vision, and speech will dramatically affect not only the way humans and computers interact but also the way humans interact with each other. Moreover, the fundamental relationships between software and hardware will significantly change as software objects become more dynamic and operating systems increase the level of abstraction provided to developers. This talk addresses these coming changes and discusses how they will effect the uses of computing and the kinds of software our industry will be developing in the future.Richard Rashid heads the Microsoft Research Division where he has focused on operating systems, networking, and multiprocessors, and is responsible for the creation of key technologies leading to the development of Microsoft's interactive TV system, now in test deployment. Before joining Microsoft, Dr. Rashid was a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University where he directed the design and implementation of several influential network operating systems, including the Mach operating system, and published dozens of papers in the areas of computer vision, operating systems, programming languages for distributed processing, network protocols, and communications security. He is credited with co-development of one of the earliest networked computer games, Alto Trek. |
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