The Future of Computing
Posted on November 13, 2006
I attended lecture by John Hopcroft about his vision of future of computing. I don’t think that I understood everything he was talking about (but I am not familiar with multidimensional geometry and I don’t remember statistics).
I think the main idea of his talk was that there are is a lot of information, and it has funny properties - there are a lot of simple small clusters from which a super information clusters form as the interconnection between the cluster increase. We can use this to model for example airline routes or Internet. Now with that in mind how can we logically group information into clusters and how can we remove the noise (such as search engine optimization).
He also showed a phenomen that demonstrated that as we increase the number of dimension we can not assume anything about geometrical properties we are fammiliar will. For example volume of sphere in a multidimensional space decrease 
as we increase the number of dimensions.
He raised an interesting question. What system of measurement should we use to mesure the distance between information.
He also pointed that tracking, annotating, and making information available saves time and helps people.
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I was there too.. by pure chance. I was falling asleep through the math, partly because I have not had any sleep in 36 hours, but that’s another story ;P Anyway, linking information together is certainly a very interesting topic.