Proactive Computing: A Progress Report
David Tennenhouse
Vice President Corporate Technology Group,
Director of Research,
Intel Corporation
For almost 40 years, Computer Science has been dominated by J.C.R.
Licklider's powerful vision of Interactive Computing. Although this "Human
Centered" line of research has been tremendously productive, the interactive
model will not scale as networked computers begin to outnumber people a
hundred or thousand-fold.
Almost 2 years ago, Intel Research initiated work on Proactive Computing -
working towards environments in which networked computers proactively
anticipate our needs and, sometimes, take actions on our behalf. This
presentation will present the elements of our research agenda and provide a
progress report on the work in progress. I will also identify some of the
"Larger than Intel" challenges that we hope others in the research community
will take on.
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