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Contents • Preserving Our Past for the Future Nissenbaum, Raj Reddy (1994 Turing There is increasing interest in how to better laureate), and Noel Sharkey The celebration will culminate with a conference on preserve our electronic artifacts. This is June 23 - 24, 2017 at the Westin St. Francis in San problem for a number of fields that are using Turing Celebration Reception: 6:15PM - 8:15PM Francisco. ACM Turing laureates will join other computing as a resource. How can we be sure ACM award recipients and experts in moderated we can read data and documents created Day 2, June 24 panel discussions exploring how computing has decades ago? In a world where software Turing Celebration: 9:00AM - 12:30PM evolved and where the field is headed. changes monthly, how can we repeat • Computer Science as a Major Body of experiments properly? Who pays to maintain Accumulated Knowledge Important Dates our ability to access artifacts? Speaker: Donald Knuth (1974 Turing Celebration-Live Streaming: 23-24th June, 2017 Moderator: Craig Partridge laureate) Day 1, June 23 Panelists: Vint Cerf (2004 Turing laureate), • Quantum Computing: Far Away? Around Turing Celebration: 8:30AM - 6:15PM Brewster Kahle, Natasa Milic-Frayling, the Corner? Or Maybe Both at the Same • Impact of Turing Recipients' Work Mahadev Satyanarayanan, and Brent Seales Time? Speaker: Barbara Liskov (2008 Turing • Moore's Law Is Really Dead: What's Next? Quantum computing hardware is maturing laureate) The 50-year reign of Moore’s Law is over. swiftly. Depending on the expert you talk • Advances in Deep Neural Networks. How Transistors are no longer getting much better, with, quantum computing is around the corner are deep neural networks changing our world the power budgets of microprocessors are not or a few years away. and our jobs and how many things further will increasing, and the single power-hungry Moderator: Umesh Vazirani be changing and how many will go forward? processor has been replaced with several Panelists: Dorit Aharonov, David Cory, John Moderator: Judea Pearl (2011 Turing energy-efficient processors, the path to Martinis, and Andrew Yao (2000 Turing laureate) improve energy-performance-cost is laureate) Panelists: Michael Jordan, Fei-Fei Li, Stuart specialized hardware. • Augmented Reality: From Gaming to Russell, Ilya Sutskever, and Raquel Urtasun Moderator: John Hennessy Cognitive Aids and Beyond • Restoring Personal Privacy without Panelists: Doug Burger, Norm Jouppi, Augmented reality—the overlay of Compromising National Security Margaret Martonosi, and Chuck Thacker contextually-relevant digital information onto Panelists will explore how state-of-the-art (2009 Turing laureate) the real world—has captivated our cryptography, security, networked systems, • Challenges in Ethics and Computing imaginations both in fiction and in practice. and data-management technology might recently, the computing and ethics Moderator: Blair MacIntyre enable government agencies to acquire communities have come to realize that Panelists: Fred Brooks (1999 Turing actionable, useful information about computing ethics is more complicated than we laureate), Peter Lee, Yvonne Rogers, and Ivan legitimate targets of investigation without thought. Driverless cars have to make ethical Sutherland (1988 Turing laureate). intruding upon the electronic activity. decisions (protect the pedestrian or Moderator:Joan Feigenbaum passenger?) formerly left to human drivers. Participants: Panelists: Whitfield Diffie (2015 Turing Moderator: Deirdre Mulligan Faculty Members from Academic laureate), Bryan Ford, Nadia Heninger, and Panelists: Jennifer Chayes, Helen Paul Syverson Institution /Research Scholars/Students