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8 VISIONS FOR THE FUTURE OF THE FIELDS
8 VISIONS FOR THE FUTURE OF THE FIELDS
Pages 63-72
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We talk about the future of the field, but it is "fields" plural because the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) deals with computer science, computer engineering (this assumes that you believe they are different things', and telecommunications, especially with the acquisition of the redefined "T" in CSTB's title.
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What we need to do now in computer science and engineering is to invent a way for everyone to do this at his or her desktop; we need to enable people to "glue" packaged software together so that the packages work as integrated systems. This will be a very significant revolution.
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The other problem that Ed Feigenbaum raised is the nonmigratory local context. I have the same problem that Ed does, except mine is at the software level.
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I actually think that is a lot easier than integrating software modules. I thought when Butler stood up he was perhaps going to say something about the viability of distributed object linking and embedding (OLE)
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I find myself asking, "If all of the academic researchers died, what impact would it have on the field in 10 years? " REDDY: No students.
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The thing that is so wonderful about that figure is that it bounces back and forth. It is not a linear translation from far-out basic academic research to shortterm grubbing product development.
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Indeed, there is no real engineering going on there, although the work is very innovative. I think that the computer science academic world ought to pay attention.
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These are not development things in some grubby sense. They are really, really tough computer science problems and system problems.
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I consider these among the most important problems in theoretical computer science and sincerely hope that, during the next 10 years, some of them will be solved. I believe that deeper understanding of these problems will have a strong impact on computer science and beyond.
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What we need built is a large, distributed knowledge base. The way to build it is the way the data space of the World Wide Web came abouta large number of individuals contributing their data to the nodes of the Web.
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