SC07 Keynote Address
SC07 is expanding the frontiers of HPC by challenging the combination of
computation, networking, storage, and analysis. The keynote address will
kick off this year’s conference, by setting the stage for a new kind of
combination – or merger – as the keynote will explain.
Tuesday, November 13, 8:30 AM
Prof. Neil Gershenfeld
Director, The Center for Bits and Atoms
MIT
Neil Gershenfeld, who galvanizes the imagination of his students and
whose work has received enthusiastic attention from the New York Times,
The Economist, CNN, and PBS among others, will be the keynote speaker at
SC07.
Gershenfeld's keynote address -- Programming Bits and Atoms -- will open
the SC07 Technical Program on Tuesday, November 13, in the Reno
Convention Center. In it he will explain how the world is about to
shift. Before long, people will own inexpensive desktop machines that
can print functioning 3-D objects -- not just static structures -- just
as effortlessly as desktop computers can already print pictures and
words in two dimensions. Research on digital fabrication is about the
fundamental merging of computation and fabrication. Consider that
personal fabricators will transform us into magicians, capable of
conjuring up precisely what we want, when we want it. Such possibilities
make this talk the perfect kick-off to SC07.
Prof. Neil Gershenfeld, Director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, is
anything but a dry academic. He displays a contagious excitement, a
lively sense of humor and a Vegas comic's timing. When he's presenting
his revolutionary approach, laughter reverberates in the halls. Still,
Gershenfeld never wanders from the deep concepts of physics that drive
his vision.
His technologies have been on display at the Museum of Modern Art, at
the White House, at the World Economic Forum, at Las Vegas shows and in
Indian villages.
His publications include The Nature of Mathematical Modeling, The
Physics of Information Technology, When Things Start to Think, which
contemplates future interactions between technology and everyday life;
and FAB: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop, published in 2005.
Neil Gershenfeld has a brilliant grasp of the complexities of evolving
scientific understanding and a singular talent for distilling that
understanding into technologies and machines that extend human reach and
serve human needs. The SC07 committee is excited that Gershenfeld will
share his inventiveness and foresight with the SC community. More
information about him and his accomplishments can be found on his
website (http://ng.cba.mit.edu/).
Questions: invited-speakers@sc07.supercomputing.org
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