KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Each congress day will start with a keynote presentaion. We are pleased to announce the following well-known experts who have accepted our invitation:

 


Gordon Moore

Dr. Gordon E. Moore

Vienna, 31 August, 1998

The Ubiquitous Microprocessor
Gordon E. Moore
Intel Corporation

 

Increasingly the information society runs on microprocessors. As the technology for designing and making complex, high-performance microprocessors advances, the advantages of their small size and relatively low cost makes them the engine of choice for nearly all data manipulation applications.
The evolution of the microprocessor from the earliest 4-bit units to today's 64-bit behemoths containing tens of millions of transistors has changed how the world looks at computing. This talk will look at what can be expected in the next several years and examine such questions as: How much longer can such progress be expected to continue? What are the limits?

Dr. Moore, Chairman Emeritus of INTEL Corporation, was born in San Francisco, California. He earned a B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Chemistry and Physics from the California Institute of Technology. In 1968, he co-founded Intel, serving initially as Executive Vice President. He became President and CEO in 1975 and held that post until elected chairman and CEO in 1979, retaining that position until 1987. Dr. Moore is a director of three corporations, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the U.S. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology. In 1990, he received the U.S. National Medal of Technology.


Pan Yunhe

Prof. Yunhe Pan

Vienna, 1 September, 1998

Information-Highway in China
Pan Yunhe
Artificial Intelligence Research Institute
Zhejiang University, 310027, Hangzhou, P.R. China
Email: panyh@sun.zju.edu.cn

Abstract:
A brief description of networking history in China is introduced. Today, in China, networking has become a new heat point. Several important public data network services in China have been constructed. The nation-wide Internet style data communication infrastructure includes ChinaNet, the largest infrastructure in China at this moment; ChinaGBnet, a satellite based network; CERnet, it owns the largest population; CSTnet, the earliest nation-wide network, etc. Many applications based on Internet technologies in the areas of medical training and treatment, remote teaching, New CAD Development Stratagem, etc. had been developing rapidly in recent years.

Prof. Pan is the head of the Artificial Intelligence Institute and the Industrial Design Institute at Zhejiang University. He is a member of the Science and Technology commission of the State Education Commission, Expert Group of State Climbing Plan, the director of China Computer Association, and China Artificial Intelligence Association. He is on the editorial board of many journals, including the Journal of Science in China, Electronics (China), Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. He was born in Hangzhou, the People's Republic of China. He obtained his B.Sc. (Hons.) (1970) from Tongji University and a M. Sc. (1981) from Zhejiang University. Since 1970, he worked as the head of Automation Research Institute at Xiangfan, Hubei, vice-director of Science Commission, at Xiangfan, Hubei, a director of Computer Science Department, Zhejiang University, and a vice-president of Zhejiang University. From 1986 to 1988, he worked as a visiting scholar at UCLA, and Carnegie Melon University, USA. He has over 70 publications to his credit and together with his research group he finished about 15 national research projects. He is the recipient of 10 state awards.


George Metakides

Dr. George Metakides

Budapest, 3 September 1998

Information Society Technologies And The Global Networked Economy
George Metakides

 

There is an inexorable advance in information processing and communications technologies. The changes being brought are not just quantitative. They are also qualitative: the use to which the technologies are being put are bringing new concepts, new organisations and new opportunities. At the same time, the convergence on digital technologies is drawing all those who provide and use the technologies into a single digital space
This single digital space is accelerating and amplifying the development of the global network economy and is changing many of the old rules. For example, one of the accepted principales of the industrial era is the law of diminishing returns. But this law is being turned on its head. In the single digital space, many products and services are now subject to a law of increasing returns - the more widely available, the greater the value.
The talk will look at the single digital space and the global networked economy, and outline initiatives being launched by the European Commission to help realise the information society´s potential for economic and societal benefits.

Dr. Metakides was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. He is currently the director of Research and Development in Information Technologies of ESPRIT. He received the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering and the Ph.D. in Mathematical Logic from Cornell University (U.S.A.) in 1971. Following he pursued an academic career in the US until 1978. When he returned to Greece, he took the chair of Logic at the University of Patras. At different times between 1984 and 1987, he held the positions of president of the Research Group of the Council of the European Commission and member of the ESPRIT Management Committee and the NATO Science Committee. From 1988 to 1993, he headed the Department of Basic Research and Scientific Relations in Information Technologies in the Directorate General XIII of the Commission of European Communities . He was responsible for planning and policy for the Framework Programme for R & D, 1994-1998 in IT.


Andries van Dam

Prof. Andries van Dam

Budapest, 4 September, 1998

Frontiers in User-Computer Interaction
Prof. Andries van Dam

 

In this age of (near-)adequate computing power, the power and usability of the user interface is as key to an application's success as its functionality. Most of the code in modern desktop productivity applications resides in the user interface. But despite its centrality, the user interface field is currently in a rut: the WIMP (Windows, Icons, Menus, Point-and-Click GUI based on keyboard and mouse has evolved little since it was pioneered by Xerox PARC in the early '70s.
Computer and display form factors will change dramatically in the near future and new kinds of interaction devices will soon become available.
Desktop environments will be enriched not only with PDAs such as the Newton and Palm Pilot, but also with wearable computers and large-screen displays produced by new projection technology, including office-based immersive virtual reality environments. On the input side, we will finally have speech-recognition and force-feedback devices. Thus we can look forward to user interfaces that are dramatically more powerfuland better matched to human sensory capabilities than those dependent solely on keyboard and mouse.

3D interaction widgets controlled by mice or other interaction devices with three or more degrees of freedom are a natural evolution from their two-dimensional WIMP counterparts and can decrease the cognitive distance between widget and task for many tasks that are intrinsically 3D, such as scientific visualization and MCAD. More radical post-WIMP UIs are needed for immersive virtual reality where keyboard and mouse are absent. Immersive VR provides good driving applications for developing post-WIMP UIs based on multimodal interaction that involve more of our senses by combining the use of gesture, speech, and haptics. To illustrate such "perceptual user interfaces," I'll show a sample gesture-based sketching interface for conceptual and mechanical design, briefly discuss the use of haptics in the user interface, and survey a vision for a shared design and visualization space embedded in an "office of the future."

Prof. van Dam has been on the faculty of Brown University (Providence, USA) since 1965. He was one of the founders of the Computer Science Department and served as its first Chairman, from 1979 to 1985. He is also director of the National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center for Graphics and Visualization. His research is concerned with computer graphics, text processing and hypermedia systems, and workstations. He received the B.Sc. degree with Honors from Swarthnore College in 1960 and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in 1963 and 1966, respectively. He is currently on the Technical Advisory Boards of three corporations, including that of Microsoft. In 1967 he co-founded the ACM Special Interest Group on Graphics (SIGGRAPH). He has co-authored five books and authored or co-authored over 80 papers. Among his many awards are the ACM SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award (1991). In 1996 he was inducted into the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.