| What is intelligence? What is cognition? Is thinking and | | | | technological advances of the 21st century. |
| thought uniquely human? Can Artificial Intelligent | | | | As the microprocessor throughput approaches the |
| machines experience emotion and feelings, such as | | | | speed limitations imposed by fundamental device |
| love and anger? ... Today's IT systems are mostly | | | | technology, computational parallelism becomes the |
| data and communication tools for human workers. | | | | most viable alternative for achieving breakthroughs in |
| Tomorrow's IT systems will be able to do more: | | | | computing power. Just as hardware advances drive |
| automate decisions, intelligently analyze large amounts | | | | multimedia applications, in turn, also increase the |
| of data, and learn from their mistakes. ... It is | | | | appetite for more computational power. No matter |
| predicted that computers will match the | | | | how fast computers become, new applications are |
| computational functions of the human brain early in | | | | found that stretch the available resources to the limit. |
| the next century, and that soon afterwards humans | | | | Recent advances in technology are providing faster |
| and computers will merge to become a new species. | | | | microprocessors and network communications, |
| Can humans compete? | | | | reducing power dissipation in electronic systems and |
| Mankind has always thought of what if. If I could only | | | | producing higher-density, low-cost data storage |
| find a way to get from Point A to Point B faster, I | | | | devices. |
| would have more time for X,Y, &Z. from the | | | | In turn, these advances are creating a demand for |
| first invention of the flint rock for hunting, to the | | | | new multi-media applications and interfaces. Continued |
| discovery of fire, we have always looked for ways | | | | advances in computing, communication and storage |
| to do things just a little better than the day before. | | | | technologies, combined with the development of a |
| That same mind set led man to discover that the | | | | national and global grid system, holds the promise of |
| world was round instead of flat, that a country called | | | | providing the required capacities and an effective |
| America existed, that machines could work faster | | | | environment for computing and science. |
| than man, i.e. (The Industrial Revolution), and to our | | | | |