SGER: Vignettes: The Promise of Information Technology

虽然信息技术的进步改变了我们的生活，推动了我们的经济，并改变了科学的行为，但信息技术的研究需要15-20年才能转化为工业生产。 几十年后，我们将依靠明天或明年开始的研究为未来提供变革性的想法。 当这与计算机程序的注册人数下降相结合时，问题变得明显。 这一系列的小插曲将突出不同的问题，IT研究可以帮助提供解决方案。 问题的范围从使整个地球的生活普遍改善，到设计一个新的互联网。 大约有十几个小插曲将说明高影响的图形。 小插曲将提供非专业人士可以访问的可能转换的示例。如果读者选择更深入地了解，还将提供其他链接。一个预期的结果是在大学和学院中对计算科学作为一门学科产生更多的兴趣，以及提高公众对研究在发展新思想和强大经济中的作用的理解。

While advances in information technology (IT) change our lives, drive our economy and transform the conduct of science, it takes 15-20 years for research in IT to be transformed into industrial production. In a few decades, we will depend upon research begun tomorrow or next year to provide the transforming ideas for the future. When this is coupled with the declining enrollments in computing programs, the problem becomes starkly drawn. This series of vignettes will highlight different problems for which IT research can help offer solutions. The problems range from enabling a general improvement in life across the planet, to the design of a new Internet. Approximately a dozen vignettes will be illustrated with high impact graphics. The vignettes will provide examples of possible transformations that are accessible to the non-specialist. Additional links will also be provided, if the reader chooses to gain a deeper understanding. One anticipated result is the generation of more interest in computing science as a discipline in colleges and universities, as well as enhanced public understanding of the role of research in developing new ideas and a strong economy.