The Digital Future

On May 11, 1941, Konrad Zuse presented the first fully functional digital computer, his Z3, in Berlin and the Digital Age began.

On May 11, 2016 we will celebrate the 75th anniversary of this event. We are organizing a conference

The Digital Future

75 years Zuse Z3 and The Digital Revolution

with more than 1000 participants in which the computer as an instrument, computing, and digital science in general will be presented in many of its fascinating aspects. 

The presentations during the conference will be organized in five sessions:

1. Simulation, Optimization, Visualization
2. Data Analysis, Big Data and Security/Privacy
3. The Future of Computing
4. Networks and Mobility
5. Communication, Digital Society and Gaming 

Yours sincerely 

Prof. Dr. Christof Schütte
President Zuse Institute Berlin

Location

KOSMOS
Karl-Marx-Allee 131a
10243 Berlin 

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<h3><a href="http://www.zib.de/node/2432">REGISTRATION</a></h3><h3><a href="/sites/default/files/event_attachments/TDF_Programm_final_ZIB.pdf">PROGRAM</a></h3><p><span lang="EN-US">Confirmed keynote speakers include world renowned experts Genevieve Bell, Jennifer Chayes, Leslie Greengard,&nbsp;</span><span lang="EN-US">Tony Hey, Yannis Kevrekidis, Steve Oberlin, Michele Parrinello, Jonathan Schaeffer, Steve Scott, Ed Seidel, and Thomas Wiegand. The scientific keynotes are complemented by a historical keynote by Horst Zuse and welcome addresses by scientific and political leaders.</span><span lang="EN-US">&nbsp;</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US">Historical Keynote:</span></p><ul><li><span lang="EN-US"><strong>Horst Zuse</strong>&nbsp;</span><span lang="EN-US">is the son of the computer pioneer Konrad Zuse and a German computer scientist. He worked as a professor in Germany and the United States. Besides software engineering he concentrated on the history of computer science.</span></li></ul><p>Keynote Speakers:</p><ul><li><strong><span lang="EN-US">Genevieve Bell</span></strong><span lang="EN-US">&nbsp;(Intel) is an&nbsp;</span><span lang="EN-US">Australian</span>&nbsp;<span lang="EN-US">anthropologist best known for her work at the intersection of cultural practice and technological innovation. She is currently a Vice President at Intel where she acts as director of User Interaction and Experience in Intel Labs.</span></li><li><strong><span lang="EN-US">Jennifer Chayes</span></strong><span lang="EN-US">&nbsp;(Managing Director of Microsoft Research New England in Cambridge and in New York City) is one of the world's experts in random, dynamically growing graphs used to model the Internet, the World Wide Web, social networks, and networks in computational biology.</span></li><li><strong><span lang="EN-US">Leslie Greengard</span></strong><span lang="EN-US">&nbsp;(Courant Institute, NYU and Founding Director, Simons Center for Data Analysis) is an American mathematician, physician and computer scientist. He is co-inventor of the fast multipole method, recognized as one of the top-ten algorithms of computing.</span></li><li><strong><span lang="EN-US">Tony Hey</span></strong><span lang="EN-US">&nbsp;(Chief Data Scientist, Science and Technology Facilities Council) is an English physicist known as one of the prophets of data-intensive scientific discovery. He co-invented the&nbsp;</span><a title="Message Passing Interface" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_Passing_Interface"><span lang="EN-US">Message Passing Interface</span></a><span lang="EN-US">&nbsp;(MPI) which became a de facto open standard for parallel scientific computing.</span></li><li><strong><span lang="EN-US">Yannis Kevrekidis</span></strong><span lang="EN-US">&nbsp;(Princeton U) is a Greek mathematician and chemical engineer. He invented the equation-free concept in scientific computation for complex systems and is now revolutionizing data science.</span></li><li><strong><span lang="EN-US">Steve Oberlin</span></strong><span lang="EN-US">&nbsp;(Vice President and CTO, NVIDIA) is an evangelist for massively parallel processing. He directed the early architecture research leading to the launch of Cray's MPP project, was the chief architect of the Cray’s parallel supercomputer systems, and is now CTO for NVIDIAs Tesla GPU roadmap.</span></li><li><strong><span lang="EN-US">Michele Parrinello</span></strong><span lang="EN-US">&nbsp;(ETH Zürich / USI Lugano) is an Italian physicist. He co-invented the Car-Parrinello method that revolutionized molecular dynamics and famous for his citation impact index which is one of the highest among all scientists.</span></li><li><strong><span lang="EN-US">Jonathan Schaeffer</span></strong><span lang="EN-US">&nbsp;(U Alberta and the&nbsp;</span><a title="Canada Research Chair" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Research_Chair"><span lang="EN-US">Canada Research Chair</span></a><span lang="EN-US">&nbsp;in Artificial Intelligence) is a Canadian mathematician best known for his construction of the first&nbsp;</span><a title="Computer program" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_program"><span lang="EN-US">computer program</span></a><span lang="EN-US">&nbsp;to win the world champion title in a competition against humans (checkers). He is now developing intelligent&nbsp;</span><a title="Computer poker players" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_poker_players"><span lang="EN-US">computer poker</span></a><span lang="EN-US">&nbsp;systems.</span></li><li><strong><span lang="EN-US">Steve Scott</span></strong><span lang="EN-US">&nbsp;(Senior Vice President and CTO, Cray Inc.) is guiding the roadmap in high-performance computing, storage and big data analytics. He was Chief Architect of several generations of parallel vector and massively parallel supercomputer systems and interconnects at Cray.</span></li><li><strong><span lang="EN-US">Ed Seidel</span></strong><span lang="EN-US">&nbsp;(NCSA) is a distinguished researcher in high-performance computing and acts as the director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in the US.</span></li><li><strong><span style="text-indent: -18pt;" lang="EN-US">Thomas Wiegand</span></strong><span style="text-indent: -18pt;" lang="EN-US">&nbsp;(TU Berlin, Executive Director of Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institute) is a German electrical engineer, best known as the main contributor to the MPEG video coding and multimedia transmission standards.</span></li></ul>