CPEU4 - Main Stage - John Underkoffler
Channel: Campus Party
Date: 2016-06-29

Radically new HMI (Human Machine Interface) is giving rise to a crucial and exhilarating resurgence of systems for serious computation.

"We have arrived at a pre-ecstatic moment in the history of computation. This instant is marked on one end by the twilight of snack food computing: mobile apps, gadgets, and perpetual electronic distraction; and on the other end by a resurgence of real nutrition: systems for professional computing, for doing the most sophisticated, interesting work that humans need to do. New designs and new technologies built on three key understandings will enable this renaissance. One, that the UI is fundamental; for human beings, the UI is the computer. Two, that scale matters; complex problems and workflows literally require a larger visual space with a larger interface to properly engage human cognition. Three, that systems for the 21st century must enable computationally-assistad human collaboration. Implemented correctly, all this looks like science fiction, and the reason for that is also part of the story.