Please join us for our upcoming Industry Spotlight session.

DATE: Tuesday, March 22, 2022, 6:00 pm PT (US Pacific Timezone)

Presentation: Computer Communications – in 50 years?
Speaker: David Tennenhouse, Strategic Advisor / Researcher / Engineer
Social Media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-tennenhouse

EVENT SPONSORS: IEEE CLP of SCV, IEEE Computer Society SCV Chapter; IEEE Industry Engagement

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ABSTRACT: I was recently asked what I thought Computer Communication would be like in 50 years. My first reaction was: Wow. I have thoughts on where the action will be in 10-20 years but I have no idea how to think about 50. Then I started thinking about the Internet and realized that packet switching is now well over 50 years old, which means it’s well past time to lay the groundwork for its disruption. This talk will start with a retrospective on the communication networks of the past few centuries and discuss how three technical forces (storage, computation, information theory) have driven their evolution. I’ll then identify a few research directions that I’d love to see the networking community explore. If we want computer communication to change in a big way by 2070, then we need to start sowing the seeds today!
SPEAKER: David is passionate about research, innovation and the creation of new products/services/businesses. His experience spans industry, academia, government, and venture capital. He has been a faculty member at MIT, led the Information Technology Office at DARPA, drove investments in startups at New Venture Partners, and has been a senior executive at Intel, Amazon/A9.com, Microsoft and VMware.

David’s technical interests include networking, cloud computing, blockchain, computer architecture, machine learning and nano/bio-technology. He completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering at the University of Toronto and earned his PhD at the University of Cambridge.

 

This talk is part of our series of presentations by industry experts at the IEEE Santa Clara Valley Section Corporate Liaison Program (CLP). If you have ideas for future speakers, please email the SCV CLP Chair.

 

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