HANCOXPJ@MAIL.ASTON.AC.UK (10/22/87)
From: Dr P J Hancox <HANCOXPJ@uk.ac.aston> Dept: Computer Science Tel No: 021 359 3611 X4652 Aston University Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Seminar Wednesday 28 October 1987 at 3.00 pm in Room 550, Main Building Computing in the year 2001 Brian Oakley Director, The Alvey Directorate, London The key to the advance in computing over the last 20 years has been the inexorable increase in the speed, power and memory capacity of the silicon chip. Will this continue and, if so, for how long? The talk will consider the performance of the integrated circuit in the year 2001, and the resulting power of the processor on a chip. Well before the turn of the century multi-processors will have become common place, so that system power will far exceed the individual processor power. And what will this power be used to do? The talk will end by considering the new applications, particularly the spread of so-called AI applications such as Expert Systems, Natural Language, Voice and Image Processing. Chairman: Dr B Gay. Enquiries: JANET: compsci@uk.ac.aston.mail uucp: seismo!mcvax!ukc!aston!compsci Computer Science, Aston University, Birmingham, B4 7ET, United Kingdom + 44 21 359 3611 extn 5313