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The Beauty and Joy of The Beauty and Joy of Computing Computing Lectur Lecture #25 e #25 Summary & Far Summary & Farewell ewell UC Berkeley EECS UC Berkeley EECS Sr Lectur Sr Lecturer SOE er SOE Dan Garcia Dan Gar cia


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The Beauty and Joy of The Beauty and Joy of Computing Computing

Lectur Lecture #25 e #25 Summary & Far Summary & Farewell ewell Google’s “Project Glass” hopes to bring all services from Android to a display you carry with you on your glasses. Next big thing?

UC Berkeley EECS UC Berkeley EECS Sr Lectur Sr Lecturer SOE er SOE Dan Gar Dan Garcia cia

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Exciting Future Implications

§ Need to revisit chronic unsolved problem

ú Parallel programming!!

§ Implications for applications:

ú Computing power available >>> (choose your favorite

supercomputer from a decade ago) on an economical die inside your watch, cell phone or PDA

 On your body health monitoring  Google + library of congress on your PDA

§ As devices continue to shrink…

ú The need for great HCI (human-computer interfaces)

is as critical as ever! (voice, gesture, etc)

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Peer Instruction Opinion

§ “Forget cloning. Forget TVs on

your wrist watch. The biggest invention of the next 100 years will be the ability to directly connect your brain to a machine, aka wet computing.” – Dan Garcia

ú A macaque monkey at Duke University can already

control a robotic arm with thought.

ú DARPA interested for mind-control robots & flying ú Virtual Reality achieved with proper I/O interfacing…

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The Future for Future BJC Alumni

§ What’s The Future? § New Millennium

ú Ubiquitous & Quantum Computing, Nanotechnology,

10 M “volunteer” CPUs, the Parallel revolution...

ú Rapid Changes in Technology (e.g., voice input!) ú World’s 2nd Best Education ú Never Give Up!

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it”

– Alan Kay

The Future is up to you!