[CSEE Talk] talk: Human Computing Capacity and Future Human Development, 2:30 Mon 11/18

[Tim Finin]

           Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research
           Distinguished Computational Science Lecture Series

         Human Computing Capacity and Future Human Development

                        Professor Bezalel Gavish
            Information Technology and Operations Management
                Southern Methodist University, Dallas TX

            2:30pm Monday, 18 November 2013, ITE 325b, UMBC

This talk introduces bounds on future computers' processing capacity
and analyzes the possibilities for their realization in the long
run. The analysis shows the existence of hard limits on the progress
in processing capacity, which in turn generates bounds on future
computing capacity. The results show that it is unlikely that some of
the predictions on future computing capabilities will ever be
achieved. The capacity bounds stem from fundamental physical
limitations, which generate the relatively tight bounds. Different
bounds have been developed that will be reached much faster than
expected when compared to using simple traditional forecasting
methods. This will be discussed in the lecture.

Assuming that computational activities like decision making,
processing, vision, control, auditory and sensing activities of human
beings require energy, the above energy based results generate upper
bounds on the computational capacity (in the broadest sense) of human
beings. The results are architecture independent and have direct
impact on research on models of the brain and provide bounds on the
cognitive abilities of human beings. A byproduct of this line of
research is providing some new conjectures on the past and future
physical development of the human species.

Professor Bezalel Gavish holds the Eugene J. and Ruth F. Constantin
Distinguished Chair at Southern Methodist University in Dallas,
Texas. He was the Chairman of the Information Technology and
Operations Management department at the Cox business School. Professor
Gavish is the founding Chairman of the International Conference on
Telecommunications Systems Management and the International Conference
on Networking and Electronic Commerce. He is the Editor-in-Chief of
two top ranked research oriented journals, the Telecommunication
Systems Journal, and of the Electronic Commerce Research Journal;
serves as an Editorial board member of the Wireless Networks journal,
Networks, Annals of Information Systems; was Telecommunications
Departmental Editor for the Operations Research journal and Department
Editor of Distributed Systems in ORSA Journal on Computing; and serves
on the editorial boards of Computers and Operations Research, Annals
of Mathematics of Artificial Intelligence, INFOR, Mathematics of
Industrial Systems, Combinatorial Optimization: Theory and Practice,
and Pesquisa Operacional. Prof. Gavish has published over 100 papers
in his areas of expertise. He received the Ph.D. (1975) in operations
research from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.