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John Hopcroft, IBM Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics, Cornell University, EUA
3 de maio (terça às 15h no auditório da COPPE no CT2)
Resumo
The world is entering the Information Age which is changing the education needed to prepare for good jobs and successful future careers. We are now concerned with extracting information from the enormous data sets that are available. Information, such as medical records, previously stored on paper will be digitized raising issues about how to preserve privacy. New ideas, such as zero knowledge proofs, are being developed. This talk will discuss the Information Age and give examples of the mathematics needed to undergird the education necessary for the jobs of the future.
Biografia resumida
Hopcroft's research centers on theoretical aspects of computing, especially analysis of algorithms, automata theory, and graph algorithms. He has coauthored four books on formal languages and algorithms with Jeffrey D. Ullman and Alfred V. Aho. His most recent work is on the study of information capture and access.
He was honored with the A. M. Turing Award in 1986. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). In 1992, he was appointed by President Bush to the National Science Board (NSB), which oversees the National Science Foundation (NSF), and served through May 1998. From 1995-98, Hopcroft served on the National Research Council's Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications.
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