Stanford 4:15PM * Wednesday, January 26, 2005 * Fifty Years of Hacks*

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COMPUTER SYSTEMS LABORATORY COLLOQUIUM
4:15PM, Wednesday, January 26, 2005
NEC Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B03
http://ee380.stanford.edu

Topic:    Fifty Years of Hacks*
A Computer Geek's Confession

Speaker:  Ed Fredkin
Carnegie Mellon University

About the talk:

This lecture is basically about some disconnected but interesting
computer-personal history that is mostly unknown. It all starts
in LA then takes place in a Jet Fighter, at Lincoln Laboratory,
BBN, III, MIT, Stanford, Caltech, BU, Carnegie Mellon, the CIA,
the Kremlin, the White House and the IBM Board-Room. Other things
happened at the USSR Academy of Sciences: the Presidium and
various centers and institutes. Then there is the International
Laboratory for Research in Artificial Intelligence! The players
include Stanford=82s own John McCarthy along with other luminaries
and political leaders. The action covers having fun inventing
parts of the future, using computers in new ways, making great
things happen, killing off gigantic losers, do goodery and an
occasional screw-up.

* By =84Hack=89 we mean a modest effort that yields a surprisinsingly
big result, the =84hacker=89 is known to very few and the resulsult is
hopefully amusing. In this case the hacker always meant well,
but=E2=88=91

About the speaker:

Edward Fredkin dropped out of Caltech after one year and,
at age 19, joined the USAF and became a jet fighter pilot.
Fredkin=82s computer career started in 1956 when the Air Force
assigned him to work at MIT=82s Lincoln Laboratories. In 1968
Fredkin returned to academia, starting at MIT as a full
professor. From 1971 to 1974 he was the Director of CSAIL
(formerly =84LCS=89 or =84Project MAC=89). He spente spent a year at Caltech=
 as
a Fairchild Distinguished Scholar, working with Richard Feynman,
and was a Professor of Physics at Boston University for 6 years.
More recently he has been a Distinguished Career Professor at
Carnegie Mellon University and also a Visiting Professor at MIT.

Fredkin has been broadly interested in computation: hardware and
software. He is the inventor of many things including the Trie
data structue, the Fredkin Gate and the Billiard Ball Model.
Fredkin and his students did pioneering work on cellular automata
and reversible computing. He has also been involved in computer
vision, chess and other areas of AI research. Fredkin also works
at the intersection of theoretical issues in the physics of
computation and computational models of physics. He recently
developed Salt, a model of computation based on fundamental
conservation laws from physics.

Contact information:

Edward Fredkin
Carnegie Mellon University
Building 23 MS 23-11
Moffett Field, CA 93035
650-796-2802
ef@xxxxxxx[2]
  http://ee380.stanford.edu



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