The Frontiers of IT

On October 21 at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, Dr. John E. Kelly III, IBM Senior Vice President and Director of Research, hosted a colloquium on “Frontiers of IT,” focused on four key technologies that will change the world: nanotechnology, exascale processing, big data and analytics, and learning systems. The event included a panel about the next grand challenge in computing and the societal challenges it should address.

From the first integrated circuits and DRAM chips to today’s innovations in analytics systems such as the Watson system, IBM and its partners have been at the forefront in creating the modern computing age.

Watch replays of each part of the colloquium, as IBM, academic and industry experts discuss the future of computing:

• Keynote: Four Technologies That Will Change the World
  - Dr. John Kelly III, IBM Senior Vice President and Director of Research
• Artificial Intelligence: The Promise Revisited
  - David Ferrucci, IBM Fellow, Principal Investigator, DeepQA/Watson Project
• Bio-Inspired Nanoelectronics & Systems
  - Matthew Tirrell, Founding Director, Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
• Advanced Computing Systems for Energy, etc.
  - Dr. Steven E. Koonin, Undersecretary for Science, US Department of Energy
• Transforming Health Care Through Data
  - Lori Beer, Executive Vice President, Enterprise Business Services, WellPoint
• The Future of Computing – Reuniting Bits and Atoms
  - Neil Gershenfeld, Director, The Center for Bits and Atoms, MIT
• The Next Grand Challenge in Computing
  - Moderator: Dr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Chairman Emeritus, IBM Academy of Technology

  
  Panelists
  - Jim Schatz, Department Head, Johns Hopkins Applied Information Sciences
  - David Aronoff, Flybridge Venture Capital
  - Erik Kruse, Marketing Strategist, Ericsson
  - Dr. Ashifi Gogo, CEO, Sproxil

• Closing Remarks
  - Dr. John E. Kelly III