Technology Predictions for Pandemics
Predicting the future is never easy, it always entails a degree of uncertainty, if not luck. Predicting technology trends is even harder as it requires both technical and business acumen, e.g., whether the technology will be developed, productized, and ultimately adopted on the market. It is almost an art to distill between a fashion and a true scientific trend. At the same time, the public likes to read predictions and many individuals and organizations regularly write technology predictions, such as Gartner, MIT, Forbes, and many others. Predicting technology in times of pandemics carries even more weight as it deals with human lives and economies of many nations, and the humanity as a whole.
IEEE Computer Society started its technology predictions informally in early 2010 and formally via annual press releases in 2014. In 2016 we introduced scorecards for previous year. Our predictions reached substantial audience, e.g., in 2018, it was picked up by 300 media outlets (84.6M audience), entirely different from classical publishing. We consider predictions a new type of publication, a lightweight, short, approximately a paragraph per prediction. The predictions triggered other media outreach, such as blogs, interviews, panel sessions, and special issue of IEEE Computer magazine. In this talk, Dejan will present history of predictions, followed by 10 technologies that may make a difference in addressing pandemics.
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- Date: 30 Jun 2020
- Time: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM
- All times are (UTC+10:00) Brisbane
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- Starts 10 June 2020 05:32 PM
- Ends 29 June 2020 11:55 PM
- All times are (UTC+10:00) Brisbane
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Dejan Milojicic
Technology Predictions for Times of Pandemics
Biography:
Dejan is a distinguished technologist and director at Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA [1998-]. Previously, he worked in the OSF Research Institute, Cambridge, MA [1994-1998] and Institute “Mihajlo Pupin”, Belgrade, Serbia [1983-1991]. His areas of expertise include system software and distributed systems. He received his PhD from University of Kaiserslautern, Germany (1993); and MSc/BSc from Belgrade University, Serbia (1983/86). Dejan was a managing director of the Open Cirrus Cloud Computing testbed (2007-2011). Dejan has over 200 papers, 2 books and 54 granted patents. Dejan is an IEEE Fellow (2010), ACM Distinguished Engineer (2008), and HKN and USENIX member. He was president of IEEE Computer Society (2014) and IEEE Presidential candidate (2019). He has been on many conference program committees and journal editorial boards.