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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
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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§ 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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§ “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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§ 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!
– Alan Kay