MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
"As We May Think" --
A Celebration of Vannevar Bush's 1945 Vision,
An Examination of What Has Been Accomplished,
and What Remains to Be Done
Thursday, October 12, 1995
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Augmenting Bush's Vision with Digital Technology
Robert E. Kahn
Although Vannevar Bush in his classic paper "As we may think" described
the importance of sharing information, his horizons were necessarily
limited by the technology of the day. In particular, the digital
computing and communications technology which we now take for granted
had not even entered his frame of reference. This talk will explore
the possible evolution of computer
and communications infrastructure and the role of architecture,
technology and intelligence in the system. Connectivity, along with
an almost unlimited array of digital objects, universal services and
applications will stimulate the sharing of ideas, joint activities
of all kinds, virtual entities and teamwork in the network. The role of
software agents both within the network and outside will be considered
in the context of distributed task execution. Finally, the prospects
for intelligent distributed systems will be explored.
To the symposium Agenda.
To MIT EECS home page.
Your comments are welcome.
Rev. PP Oct 5, 1995.