In this May 18, 2022 Director's Special Colloquium, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's Sadasivan Shankar presents on "A Few Puzzles for Helping Determine the Future of Computing."

Progress in computing has been extraordinary: powerful devices that become more portable with every passing year, advances in machine learning, increasing momentum to build a practical quantum computer, the advent of high-performance supercomputers.

These diverse computing paths are promising, as we acknowledge the limits to how much we can boost computational power and processing speed. To solve pressing problems, such as those related to human health, and to address intriguing problems, such as the origin of the universe, we may benefit from other approaches to computing. We must look beyond the more-power/more-speed paradigm.

The panel discussion, led by Argonne's Rick Stevens, speculates about new forms of computing and discuss ways of computing that do not rely on increasing computational power but are instead based on different paradigms.

00:00 Welcome: Linda Young, Argonne Distinguished Fellow
01:53 Introduction: Paul Kearns, Director, Argonne National Laboratory
06:57 Keynote: Sadasivan Shankar, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
41:32 Q&A: Sadasivan Shankar and Rick Stevens
47:43 Q&A: Panel discussion
01:20:44 Audience questions

KEYNOTE:
Sadasivan Shankar
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Stanford University
Harvard University

PANEL DISCUSSION:
Rick Stevens, Moderator
Associate Laboratory Director and Argonne Distinguished Fellow
Argonne National Laboratory

Salman Habib
Director, Argonne Computational Science Division and Argonne Distinguished Fellow
Argonne National Laboratory
University of Chicago
Northwestern University

Yanjing Li
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
University of Chicago

Fangfang Xia
Computer Scientist, Data Science and Learning Division
Argonne National Laboratory

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