Each year, a small assembly of the nation's leading computer scientists is invited to gather and explore the technologies and special challenges that will spur the evolution of computing. Both the university and MSR envision the Summer Institute as an innovative program that will not only help pioneer new and emerging trends, but also ignite ideas across disciplines to broaden the community of researchers working to solve computer science problems. Microsoft Corp. The co-organizers of the institute's first 1999 session, Turner Whitted of MSR and Gaetano Borriello of UW, see the future of computing including more devices equipped with local intelligence and wireless technologies.
Technology is ripe for exploring new applications and form factors.
The organizers of the second session, Daniel Weise and James Larus of MSR and David Notkin of UW, will be exploring innovative solutions to utilize tools and technologies supporting the design, construction, analysis, debugging and testing of very large software systems. The Summer Institute program was created jointly by UW and MSR in 1997 to help bring together leading minds in computer science. The institute aims to apply diverse areas of expertise toward solving some of the most critical technical challenges facing scientists today, identifying new and innovative trends in research, and encouraging the cross-fertilization of ideas and knowledge. The 1997 session of the series focused on issues in data mining. Last year's meeting tackled some of the possible intersections of intelligence between biological and computer systems.