{"594825":{"#nid":"594825","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GT Computing Distinguished Lecture: Mark Wegman","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Interaction of Changes in Society and Information technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSpeaker: Mark Wegman, CTO Software Technology, IBM\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWork With: Daniel Sabbah\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENew technology can change businesses and society. \u0026nbsp; In turn, changes in business and society determine the shape and relevance of technical innovation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor example, technology can change the way firms organize themselves. \u0026nbsp;In 1994 \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hkilter.com\/courses\/609\/rl-Bryn-Does-Information-Technology-Lead-to-Smaller-Firms.pdf\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EErik Brynjolfsson et al\u003C\/a\u003E. observed that firms were becoming smaller because information technology made the cost of buying from an external source cheaper than from of internal supply. \u0026nbsp;The underlying theory behind the size of firms originated with Nobel Laureate Ronald Coase, who\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.colorado.edu\/ibs\/es\/alston\/econ4504\/readings\/The%20Nature%20of%20the%20Firm%20by%20Coase.pdf\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eargued\u003C\/a\u003E in 1937 that the thing that made firms big was that transaction costs between firms, consisting of the cost of finding a supplier, negotiating a deal, and monitoring that deal were larger between firms than between elements of the same firm. \u0026nbsp;Smaller firms tend to be more agile. \u0026nbsp;Search technology and internet commerce principally available after 1995 dramatically lowered costs of finding suppliers. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the other direction, we\u0026rsquo;d argue that a major reason that Moore\u0026rsquo;s law was so predictive for many decades was that it was enforced by societal pressures. \u0026nbsp;Companies had huge economic incentives to achieve not much more and not much less than Moore\u0026rsquo;s law predicted. \u0026nbsp;Because there were many avenues to achieve it enough of those avenues were explored to ensure it happened.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWe\u0026rsquo;re in the process of trying to formulate hypotheses for the way in which technology and society interact with enough precision for economists and others to test them. \u0026nbsp;Moreover, we believe that some of what we\u0026rsquo;ve done explains why a number of newer technologies are likely to become more important.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis work points out the importance of certain technologies. \u0026nbsp;For example to support ecologies or communicating systems from different suppliers we need new programming models, new ways to debug the results and security.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBIO:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMark Wegman is the CTO for software technology and a fellow at IBM. His research focuses on optimizing software development and compilers. During his 40-plus-year career, Wegman helped invent the Static Single Assignment form used in analysis of most modern optimizing compilers, for which he won SIGPLAN\u0026rsquo;s Programming Languages Achievement Award in 2006. He has also contributed work in data compression and algorithm and information theory, such as the influential randomized algorithm Universal Hash Functions. A member of the National Academy of Engineering since 2010, he is also a fellow of ACM and IEEE. He joined IBM Research in 1975 and has published nearly 60 papers and developed more than 40 patents. Wegman holds a Ph.D. in computer science from University of California, Berkeley and a B.A. in mathematics and philosophy from New York University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"GT Computing Distinguished Lecture: Mark Wegman"}],"uid":"28150","created_gmt":"2017-08-23 13:04:43","changed_gmt":"2017-08-23 18:00:13","author":"Birney Robert","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2017-08-29T16:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2017-08-29T17:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2017-08-29T17:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2017-08-29 20:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2017-08-29 21:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2017-08-29 21:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"594827":{"id":"594827","type":"image","title":"Mark Wegman","body":null,"created":"1503493629","gmt_created":"2017-08-23 13:07:09","changed":"1503493629","gmt_changed":"2017-08-23 13:07:09","alt":"","file":{"fid":"226693","name":"IBM Fellows 2007 034.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IBM%20Fellows%202007%20034.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IBM%20Fellows%202007%20034.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":343577,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/IBM%20Fellows%202007%20034.jpg?itok=CMtj2nJr"}}},"media_ids":["594827"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"175274","name":"Mark Wegman"},{"id":"654","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"166941","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKenya Payton\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kenya.payton@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ekenya.payton@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}