【講演概要】No other discipline or technology will have more impact on shaping our future than computer science and technology. This implies a major responsibility for our community, not only from a scientific and technical perspective, but also from an ethical and societal point of view.
We, as computer scientists and professionals, have advanced linear (Turing-)machines to multidimensional complexity management machines, algorithmic unfolding machines to creative generative machines in artificial intelligence, and deterministic machines to true randomness in executive machine behavior in quantum computing. These advances have opened the doors to an infinite spectrum of use domains, out of which a few are currently showing remarkable progress. Research prototypes have rapidly developed into living examples of totally autonomic machines (level 4-5 vehicles, drones, …), very-large-scale collectives of cooperative machines (combinations of smart phones, watches, cars, homes, …) or of self-adaptive and locally interactive machines (surgical micro-robots, personal digital agents or twins, …).
ACM (which stands for Association for Computing Machinery) has already reacted to significant transitions in the past by redefining and reshaping its agenda. Among the many emerging topics, I consider the following as immediately urgent:
Computing Machinery fighting the CO2 dilemma
Computing Machinery fertilizing medical research and health care
Computing Machinery protecting democracy
In my welcome address, I will highlight some of the plans and initiatives within ACM towards achieving those goals and on opportunities for joint activities of ACM, IPSJ, and the other societies.
【略歴】Gabriele Kotsis is an Austrian computer scientist. She has received her master 's degree (1991, honored with the Award of the Austrian Computer Society), her PhD (1995, honored with the very prestigious Heinz Zemanek PhD award) and the venia docendi in computer science (2000) from the University of Vienna. Since 2002, Gabriele Kotsis is a full professor in computer science at Johannes Kepler University (JKU), Linz, Austria, while leading the Department of Telecommunication and the division of Cooperative Information Systems. Prof. Kotsis has always been dedicated to contributing research management and to the larger scientific community. From 2003 to 2007 she was president of the Austrian Computer Society. She was appointed in 2007 and re-elected in 2011 as Vice Rector for Research at Johannes Kepler University Linz. Since July 2020, she is president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Her scientific contributions include seminal work in the field of workload characterization for parallel and distributed systems and in performance management of computer systems with a specific focus on ubiquitous computing environments. She has successfully led several research projects, such as the EU funded networks of Excellence CRUISE and EuroNGI/EuroFGI. In 2014, Kotsis has been recognized as ACM Distinguished Scientist for her scientific contributions.