The Promise of Information Technology

Further reading on the topics mentioned in The Promise of Information Technology:

• Driving advances in all fields of science and engineering: Computational Science: Ensuring America's Competitiveness, President's Information Technology Advisory Committee, June 2005.

• Designing a new Internet: GENI: Global Environment for Network Investigations, especially "Research Challenges and Opportunities".

• Cars that can't crash: "Innovations from a Robot Rally," W. Gibbs, Scientific American, January 2006.

• A teacher for every learner: Cyberinfrastructure for Education and Learning for the Future: A Vision and Research Agenda, Computing Research Association, 2005; see also Grand Research Challenges in Information Systems, Challenge 3 (pp. 17-22), Computing Research Association, 2002.

• Augmented cognition: "Considerate Computing," W. Gibbs, Scientific American, January 2005.

• Computational biology and medicine:

• Computers that learn: "Machine Learning," T. Dietterich, Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, Macmillan, 2003.

• Post-Moore's-Law computing: "Quantum Computing with Molecules," N. Gershenfeld and I. Chuang, Scientific American, June 1998.

• Global virtual communities and their implications: Etienne Wenger "Communities of practice" home; University of Michigan "Science of Collaboratories" home.

• Custom-made microbes, at your service: "Custom-Made Microbes, at Your Service," New York Times, January 17 2006.

• The Personal Memex: "Total Recall," S. Cherry, IEEE Spectrum, November 2005; see also MyLifeBits Project, Microsoft Research.

• Mastering IT system complexity: "Self-Repairing Computers," A. Fox and D. Patterson, Scientific American, June 2003; see also Grand Research Challenges in Information Systems, Challenges 4 and 5 (pp. 23-33), Computing Research Association, 2002.

• Flattening the world: "The Case for Technology in Developing Regions," E. Brewer, et al., IEEE Computer, June 2005

• Personalized health care: "Technology for Care Networks of Elders," S. Colsolvo, et al., IEEE Pervasive Computing, April-June 2004.

• Information technology, innovation, and creativity: Information Technology, Innovation, and Creativity, Computer Science & Telecommunications Board, National Research Council, 2003.

This page: http://lazowska.cs.washington.edu/promise/

Further information: Contact Ed Lazowska, University of Washington, or Dave Patterson, UC Berkeley