THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTHNORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPELCHAPEL HILL DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE The Toolsmith Conference 1818———1919 OCTOBER 2001 Dr. Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. still being designed. He is pioneering the use of Frederick P. Brooks, force display to supplement visual graphics. Jr., was born in 1931 Brooks distilled the successes and failures of the in Durham, NC. He development of Operating System/360 in The received an A.B. Mythical Man-Month: Essays in Software summa cum laude in Engineering, (1975, 20th Anniversary Edition, physics from Duke 1995). He further examined software engineering in and a Ph.D. in his well-known 1986 paper, “No Silver Bullet.” In computer science 1997, he and Professor Gerrit Blaauw published a from Harvard, under major research monograph, Computer Architecture: Howard Aiken, the Concepts and Evolution. architect of the early Harvard computers. Brooks has served on the National Science Board He joined IBM, and the Defense Science Board. He is a member of working in the National Academy of Engineering, National In a word, the computer Poughkeepsie and Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the (U.K) Royal Academy of scientist is a toolsmith— Yorktown, NY, 1956- 1965. He was an Engineering, and the Royal Netherlands Academy no more, but no less. It architect of the Stretch of Arts and Sciences. He has received the ACM A. M. Turing Award, the IEEE John von Neumann is an honorable calling. and Harvest computers and then was the Medal, the IEEE Computer Society’s McDowell FPB project manager for and Computer Pioneer Awards, the ACM Allen the development of Newell and Distinguished Service, Awards, the IBM's System/360 family of computers and then of the AFIPS Harry Goode Award, and an honorary Doctor of Technical Science from ETH-Zürich. Operating System/360 software. For this work he received a National Medal of Technology jointly with He is married to DISTINGUISHED GUEST Bob O. Evans and Erich Bloch. Nancy Greenwood SPEAKERS Ivan Sutherland 4 Dr. Brooks and Dura Sweeney in 1957 patented an in- Brooks. They have three children: terrupt system for the IBM Stretch computer that Diane Pozefsky 5 introduced most features of today's interrupt systems. Kenneth, Roger, and He coined the term computer architecture . His Barbara, and six Steven M. Bellovin 5 grandchildren. Dr. System/360 team first achieved strict compatibility, J. Craig Mudge 6 upward and downward, in a computer family. His Brooks became a early concern for word processing led to his selection Christian at age 31. Bob Evans 6 He chaired the Ex- of the 8-bit byte and the lowercase alphabet for the Gerrit Blaauw 7 System/360, engineering of many new 8-bit input/ ecutive Committee output devices, and providing a character-string for the Central Mike Pique 8 datatype in PL/I. Carolina Billy Graham Crusade in Dick Sites 8 In 1964 he founded the Computer Science Department 1973. The Brookses John Crawford 9 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and advise a chapter of chaired it for 20 years. Currently, he is Kenan InterVarsity Henry Fuchs 9 Professor of Computer Science. His principal research Christian Fellow- Jim Sneeringer 10 is in real-time, three-dimensional, computer ship, and he has 10 graphics—“virtual reality.” His research has helped taught an adult Sun- Sam Williamson 10 biochemists solve the structure of complex molecules day School class for and enabled architects to “walk through” structures over twenty years. Ken Iverson 10 We gratefully acknowledge the enthusiastic support of our sponsors. JOHN Q. WALKER, PhD MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTER SCIENCES DIVISION US ARMY RESEARCH OFFICE (ARL) RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NORTH CAROLINA US ARMY STRICOM SIMULATION, TRAINING & INSTRUMENTATION COMMAND OFFICE OF THE PROVOST UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA at CHAPEL HILL OFFICE OF THE DEAN COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA at CHAPEL HILL THURSDAY FRIDAY SCHEDULE SCHEDULE 11:00–12:00 7:30 – 8:30 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION BREAKFAST BANQUET HALL LOBBY HANES ART CENTER FOYER & HALLWAY MOREHEAD PLANETARIUM THE MORNING AND AFTERNOON PROGRAMS WILL BE HELD IN 12:00–1:30PM THE HANES ART CENTER THEATRE LUNCHEON BANQUET HALL 8:30 – 8:40 MOREHEAD PLANETARIUM GERRIT BLAAUW KEYNOTE SPEAKER: “Ships on the Beach” IVAN SUTHERLAND 8:45 – 9:15 “Computing and the March of Time” MIKE PIQUE “Scouting Expeditions in Molecular Graphics” THE AFTERNOON PROGRAM WILL BE HELD IN THE HANES ART CENTER THEATRE 9:20 – 10:00 DICK SITES 1:45 – 2:15 “From Flushatrons to Alpha and Back” DIANE POZEFSKY “Calendar-based Context and 10:00 – 10:30 BREAK Presence” 2:20 – 3:00 10:30 – 11:10 JOHN CRAWFORDCRAWFORD STEVEN M. BELLOVIN JOHN CRAWFORD “Security and Software Engineering” “Moore’s Law in Microprocessor Performance: a look back and a 3:00 - 3:30 glimpse ahead” BREAK 11:15 – 12:00 3:30 – 4:10 HENRY FUCHS J. CRAIG MUDGE "Immersion and Tele-Immersion “Computer Security Viewed as an in the Office of the Future" Integral Part of Business” 12:00 – 1:30 LUNCH 4:15 – 5:00 BOB EVANS 1:30 – 1:50 “Telematics, An Imaginative New JIM SNEERINGER Electronics Application” “Personal Reminiscences” 1:55—2:35 6:30–9:30PM SASAMM WILLIAMSON RECEPTION & BANQUET “What Fred Brooks Taught Us About Leadership” CAROLINA CLUB at the ALUMNI CENTER 2:40—3:15 At the University of North Carolina at KEN IVERSON Chapel Hill “Exploring Math” 3:15 – 3:45 BREAK KEYNOTE SPEAKER: 4:00–7:30PM FREDFREDERICKERICK P. BROOKS, JR. RESEARCH DEMONSTRATIONS “Life Sentences” SITTERSON HALL P AGE 4 three-dimensional computer graphics, demonstrating IVAN SUTHERLAND what is now known as "virtual reality." This work “Computing and the March of Time” provided the ideas around which E&S was founded. Bob Sproull, later the co-founder of Sutherland, Dr. Ivan E. Sutherland is a Vice President and Sproull and Associates, Sutherland, Sproull and Asso- Fellow at Sun Microsystems. In addition to his own ciates, participated in the Harvard work as an project in asynchronous system design, he helps Sun undergraduate. Bob and Ivan formed a friendship and to adopt new technologies. He also serves as a association during that period that carries on today. director or advisor to several small companies. Dr. Suthrland divides his time among corporate Dr. Sutherland went to Harvard from the Defense activities, venture capital, and his own creative Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), where technical work. he had spent two years as Director of the Information Processing Techniques Office. In that From 1976 to 1980, Dr. Sutherland was the Fletcher capacity, Dr. Sutherland was responsible for funding Jones Professor of Computer Science at Caltech much of the US academic research in advanced serving as head of Computer Science. During this computing. His contracts included Project MAC at period he and Professor Carver Mead initiated the MIT, the Illiac IV project at the University of Illinois, Silicon Structures Project, a major research program as well as major programs led by Al Perlis at staffed and funded cooperatively with industry. The Carnegie-Mellon University and David Evans at the pioneering work of the Caltech group helped fuel the University of California at Berkeley. His contact with silicon revolution by giving academia worldwide the the US Department of Defense continued after he left confidence and the tools to teach integrated circuit ARPA, first as a member of the Naval Research Ad- design. visory Committee (NRAC), and later as a member of the Defense Science Board (DSB), and as Chairman Prior to joining the Caltech faculty, Dr. Sutherland of the Technical Advisory Committee for the Defense had founded the Evans and Sutherland Computer Mapping Agency (DMA). Corporation (E&S) with Dr. David Evans. E&S is now a $200 million per year firm Dr. Sutherland has always manufacturing high performance computer If we perceive our role maintained an active graphics equipment. Dr. Sutherland served aright, we then see more research program of his own. as Vice President and Chief Scientist for In the early 80’s his research E&S and remains a major shareholder and clearly the proper criterion centered on robots that walk. an active member of its Board of Directors. He built a 6-legged hydraulic Both Sutherland and Evans also taught at success: a toolmaker walking machine featured on the University of Utah, and between the succeeds as, and only as, the cover of Scientific Ameri- company and the University, made Salt can in January 1983. More re- Lake City the premier center for computer the users of his tool cently his research program has graphics. A key publication of the period, involved new designs and succeed with his aid. "A Characterization of Ten Hidden Surface design techniques for Algorithms," by Sutherland, Sproull, and FPB asynchronous digital systems. Schumacker, offered a taxonomy of the then A "Theory of Logical Effort" current research in computer graphics. resulted from this work. The asynchronous design style was From 1980 until the firm was acquired by Sun, Dr. the subject of Dr. Sutherland’s 1988 ACM Turing Sutherland was a vice president of a consulting firm Award Lecture, "Micropipelines," published in the Sutherland, Sproull, and Associates, Inc. Also June 1989 issue of Communications of the ACM. starting in 1980, he was a founding partner of Advanced Technology Ventures, a Boston- and Dr. Sutherland received a Ph.D. Degree from MIT in California-based venture capital partnership. Dr. 1963 following an MS from Caltech and a BS degree Sutherland had been an Associate Professor of from Carnegie Tech, all in Electrical Engineering. He Computer Science on the Gordon McKay holds honorary degrees from Harvard, Caltech, and endowment at Harvard prior to founding Evans and the University of North Carolina.