{"72095":{"#nid":"72095","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Microsoft\u2019s Mundie Predicts \u2018New Era of Computing\u2019","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBefore a packed auditorium in the middle of Georgia Tech\u2019s\nHomecoming week, Microsoft\u2019s Research Chief Strategy Officer\u2014and two-time Tech\nalumnus\u2014Craig Mundie, EE 1971, MS CS 1972, laid out a technology-enhanced\nvision of the future. And that future, he said, is not so far away.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is the beginning of an era of computing that we think\nwill be substantially different,\u201d said Mundie, delivering the College of\nComputing\u2019s John P. Imlay Lecture in the College of Management\u2019s LeCraw\nAuditorium. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EMundie said the new era could mark \u201cthe fourth paradigm\u201d in\nscience, preceded by the eras of theory, experimentation and modeling, the\nlatter made possible by previous advances in computational capability. But according\nto Mundie, in the era of \u201cBig Data,\u201d everyone will have access to vast stores\nof information in \u201cthe cloud.\u201d Combined with tools for visual analytics, these\nmassive public data sets will reveal findings that would have been exceedingly\nhard to recognize before.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cYou can take your Visa card, go online and rent computing\ncapability larger than anything the government used to have,\u201d said Mundie. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ETo demonstrate, Mundie pulled up a normal Microsoft Excel\nspreadsheet and, with a couple mouse clicks, populated it with 30 years of\nprecipitation data for the eastern United States using a feature that links\nExcel to publicly available data sets stored in the cloud. One or two clicks\nmore, and the data \u0026nbsp;turned into a bar\ngraph on which spikes and dips were easily discernible.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThings that are hard to find in some ways leap out at you\nwhen you have these capabilities,\u201d Mundie said. \u201cMachine learning is going to\nbe a big part of this Big Data environment. It\u2019s going to enable you to find\npatterns that people would have a hard time finding before.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAnother hallmark of this new era will be computers that receive\ninput more like people, shifting from the traditional graphical user interface\n(GUI) to a natural user interface (NUI). For example, instead of keying in\ndata, users of next-generation smartphones will be able simply to point their\nphone at an object such as a book and have the phone not only recognize what\nbook it is, but also instantly offer a range of information or access to\napplications that can grab even more information or services related to the\nbook. Another technological innovation will allow people to simply talk to\ntheir computers by waving their hands. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EMundie closed with a series of demonstrations of the\npossibilities offered by the Microsoft Kinect. Retailing at just $149, the\nKinect is a \u201crevolution\u201d in high-quality, affordable machine vision, Mundie\nsaid, with many of the same capabilities as equipment that cost $30,000 or more\njust a year ago. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EImmediately after Kinect\u2019s release in November 2010, users\naround the world started developing hacks to make the device do much more than\njust play video games, and in June of this year, Microsoft supported the effort\nby releasing a Kinect software development kit. The company also created Avatar\nKinect, which enabled 70 million Xbox users to hold virtual meetings with each\nother.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI view this as the first step toward more photorealistic\nand [business-minded] applications of this technology,\u201d Mundie said. \u201cWe are\nnot very far away\u2014maybe three years\u2014from having telemeetings with\nphotorealistic avatars and real-time language translation, including\nadjustments of facial movements to account for the translation.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMundie\u0027s visit was co-sponsored by the College of Computing, the Georgia Tech Alumni Association, Peach New Media, the Georgia Tech Student Alumni Association and the Georgia Tech Office of Greek Life. Video below courtesy of Peach New Media.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBefore a packed auditorium in the middle of Georgia Tech\u2019s\nHomecoming week, Microsoft\u2019s Research Chief Strategy Officer\u2014and two-time Tech\nalumnus\u2014Craig Mundie, EE 1971, MS CS 1972, laid out a technology-enhanced\nvision of the future. 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