Mobility: Thinking Outside the Phone

Speaker
Jim Morris
Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

When
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Where
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium)

Description

Mobile devices, backed by the internet, are becoming the world’s computing platform. This shift is more dramatic than you might think. When a new platform appears we focus on porting our existing world to it. Then we discover new opportunities that change the nature of how we work and play. There is much more to mobility than the devices.

Speaker's Bio

Dr. James H. Morris is a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He received a Bachelor’s degree from Carnegie Mellon, an MBA and Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT. He taught at the University of California at Berkeley where he developed some important underlying principles of programming languages: inter-module protection and lazy evaluation. He was a co-discoverer of the Knuth-Morris-Pratt string searching algorithm. For ten years he worked the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center where he was part of the team that developed the Alto System, a precursor to today’s personal computers. From 1983 to 1988 he directed the Information Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon, a joint project with IBM which developed a prototype university computing system, Andrew. From 1992 to 2004 he served as department head, then dean in the School of Computer Science. He held the Herbert A. Simon Professorship of Human Computer Interaction from 1997 to 2000. He was the dean of the Silicon Valley campus from 2004 to 2009. He has been the principal investigator of several NSF and DARPA projects aimed at computer-mediated communication. He is a founder of the MAYA Design Group, a consulting firm specializing in interactive product design. He also founded Carnegie Mellon’s Human Computer Interaction Institute, Robot Hall of Fame, and Silicon Valley Campus.

Speaker's Website
http://bureau.sv.cmu.edu/~jhm/

Host
Brad Myers