ACM 97 - "The Next 50 Years" - Key technologists and visionaries share their views on the next 50 years of technology.

ACM 97 Talks

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Microsoft Research Media Presence group.

Each talk is available in the following formats:

  • HTML - each page shows a slide or image and has links to MPEG-1 video, 32 kbps MPEG-1 audio and 16 kbps MPEG-2 audio. You can play the video and the 32 kbps audio with Microsoft MediaPlayer or any other MPEG-1 player. You can get a free demo player for the 16 kbps audio, which lets you also adjust play speed - so you can watch a 30 minute presentation in 23 minutes (or slow it down if the speaker is going too fast for you).

    Note: not all slides have video - in cases where the video was just a shot of the slide, we left it out. Video clips are about 5MB, 16 kbps audio clips are about 50KB and 32 kbps audio clips are about 100 KB.
  • PowerPoint 97 - These files include embedded audio and images of the speaker and are between 3 and 9 MB. Where the speaker had PowerPoint slides we also include a "slides only" version - about 1MB. Note: a free PowerPoint 97 viewer should be available some time in June.

Follow the links below to view the talks

Chuck House &
Bob Metcalfe

 President of ACM &
Conference chair		 Introduction
HTML, NetShow (28.8 kbps), NetShow (100 kbps), PowerPoint 97
James Burke Science Journalist onThe Discovery Channel and Scientific American Columnist Opening Comments
HTML, NetShow (28.8 kbps), NetShow (100 kbps), PowerPoint 97
Gordon Bell Senior Researcher, Microsoft Corporation The Laws of Predictions
HTML, NetShow (28.8 kbps), NetShow (100 kbps), PowerPoint 97, PowerPoint 97 (slides only)
Joel Birnbaum Senior Vice President Research & Development Director, HP Laboratories Computing Alternatives
HTML, NetShow (28.8 kbps), NetShow (100 kbps), PowerPoint 97, PowerPoint 97 (slides only)
Vint Cerf Senior Vice President, Internet Architecture, MCI Communications Corporation The Next 50 Years of Networking
HTML, NetShow (28.8 kbps), NetShow (100 kbps), PowerPoint 97, PowerPoint 97 (slides only)
Bran Ferren
 Executing Vice President for Creative Technology and Research & Development, Walt Disney Imagineering, The Walt Disney Company The Future of Storytelling
HTML, NetShow (28.8 kbps), NetShow (100 kbps), PowerPoint 97
Fernando Flores Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Business Design Associates, Inc. The Impacts of Information Technology on Business Communications
HTML, NetShow (28.8 kbps), NetShow (100 kbps), PowerPoint 97
Murray Gell-Mann Professor and Co-Chair of the Science Board at the Santa Fe Institute, Robert Andrews Millikan Professor Emeritus at CalTech Quality of Information
HTML, NetShow (28.8 kbps), NetShow (100 kbps), PowerPoint 97
Reed Hundt
 Chairman, Federal Communications Commission Bandwidth and Pizza
HTML, NetShow (28.8 kbps), NetShow (100 kbps), PowerPoint 97
Brenda Laurel Actor and Researcher, Computers and theater arts, Interval Research Corporation The Long-term Impacts of Information Technologies on Popular Culture
HTML, NetShow (28.8 kbps), NetShow (100 kbps), PowerPoint 97
Pattie Maes Associate Professor, MIT Media Laboratory Toward a truly personal computer
HTML, NetShow (28.8 kbps), NetShow (100 kbps), PowerPoint 97, PowerPoint 97 (slides only)
Carver Mead Gordon and Betty Moore
Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology 		Semiconductors
HTML, NetShow (28.8 kbps), NetShow (100 kbps), PowerPoint 97, PowerPoint 97 (slides only)
Nathan Myhrvold Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft Corporation The Next Fifty Years of Software
HTML, NetShow (28.8 kbps), NetShow (100 kbps), PowerPoint 97, PowerPoint 97 (slides only)
William Perry US Secretary of Defense The Impacts of Information Technology on International Security
HTML, NetShow (28.8 kbps), NetShow (100 kbps), PowerPoint 97
Raj Reddy Dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University Towards teleportation, time travel and immortality
HTML, NetShow (28.8 kbps), NetShow (100 kbps), PowerPoint 97
Elliot Soloway Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Professor in the School of Education at the University of Michigan Educating the Barney Generation's Grandchildren
HTML, NetShow (28.8 kbps), NetShow (100 kbps), PowerPoint 97, PowerPoint 97 (slides only)
Bruce Sterling Author, journalist, editor, and critic,
science fiction and nonfiction		 The Dark Side Impacts of Information Technology on Society.
HTML, NetShow (28.8 kbps), NetShow (100 kbps), PowerPoint 97
Maurice Wilkes Computer Pioneer Predicting the Future
HTML, NetShow (28.8 kbps), NetShow (100 kbps), PowerPoint 97
James Burke Science Journalist on The Discovery Channel and Scientific American Columnist Closing Comments
HTML, NetShow (28.8 kbps), NetShow (100 kbps), PowerPoint 97

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