Dejan Milojicic

Title: The Art of predicting technology evolution

Abstract: Predictions have always attracted interest, because seeing the future could be very useful, powerful, and also fun. Those who can predict ahead of others have a strategic advantage. Predictions are essential in business, the military, and healthcare. As of recently, with COVID and with recent wars, predictions became critical to humankind's survival: for predicting when to open or close countries, predicting supply chains, vaccines, etc. Predictions are hard because they depend on many factors. There is a social aspect to making any prediction that pertains to humans hard. There is an ecological aspect that is extremely complex on its own. Technology predictions may be simplest, but technology also depends on business success, i.e. economics. For these reasons, technology predictions are a combination of art, science, and business

Biography:

Dejan Milojicic is a distinguished technologist at Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA [1998-present]. Previously, he worked in the OSF Research Institute, Cambridge, MA [1994-1998] and Institute “Mihajlo Pupin”, Belgrade, Serbia [1983-1991]. He received his PhD from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany (1993); and his MSc/BSc from Belgrade University, Serbia (1983/86). His research interests include systems software, distributed computing, systems management, and HPC. Dejan has over 240 papers, 2 books and 79 patents. Dejan is an IEEE Fellow (2010), ACM Distinguished Engineer (2008), and HKN and USENIX member. Dejan was on 8 PhD thesis committees, and he mentored over 50 interns. Dejan was president of the IEEE Computer Society (2014), IEEE presidential candidate in 2019, editor-in-chief of IEEE Computing Now and Distributed Systems Online and he has served on many editorial boards and TPCs. Dejan led large industry-government-university collaborations, such as Open Cirrus (2007-2011) and New Operating System (2014-2017).