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40 Years of Computer Science At Stanford
A Symposium & Celebration
 


Session 1

Session One
Forty Years of Computer Science, A Retrospective —

The Panel

  • William F. Miller (Moderator)
    Herbert Hoover Professor of Public and Private Management Emeritus;
    Codirector of the Strategic Uses of Information Technology Executive Program
  • Edward Feigenbaum
    Kumagai Professor of Computer Science Emeritus
  • Gene Golub
    Fletcher Jones Professor fo Computer Science and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering
  • Donald E. Knuth
    Professor Emeritus of The Art of Computer Programming
  • John McCarthy
    Emeritus Professor of Computer Science
  • Nils Nilsson
    Kumagai Professor of Engineering, Emeritus

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Session 2

Computer Science Distinguished Alumni, Since We've Been Gone —

  • John C. Mitchell (Session Chair)
    Mary and Gordon Crary Family Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
  • Rodney Brooks
    Panasonic Professor of Robotics and Director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
  • Barbara Liskov
    Ford Professor of Engineering in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
  • Raj Reddy
    Mozah Bint Nasser University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
  • Ron Rivest
    Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
  • Margaret Wright
    Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics and Chair of the Computer Science Department in the Courant Institute at New York University


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Session 3

Computer Science Department Faculty, Future Challenges in CS —
The Panel

In this panel, current Stanford Computer Science faculty will discuss the future of their field, telling us what major accomplishments we can expect during the next 10 years. They will also forecast what challenging unsolved problems will remain in 10 years.

  • Hector Garcia-Molina (Session Chair)
    Leonard Bosack and Sandra Lerner Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
  • Dan Boneh
    Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
  • William Dally
    Willard R. & Inez Kerr Bell Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Daphne Koller
    Associate Professor of Computer Science
  • Sebastian Thrun
    Associate Professor of Computer Science & Director of the AI Laboratory
  • Jennifer Widom
    Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

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Session 4

Startup Panel, Upstarts & Rabble Rousers —
The Panel

Looking back and looking forward. A conversation about the impact of the Stanford Computer Science Department on Silicon Valley and the world.

  • John Markoff (Moderator)
    Adjunct Faculty, Stanford Dept. of Communication, & Senior Writer for The New York Times & Business Day
  • Andy Bechtolsheim
    Chief Architect and Senior Vice President, Network Systems, Sun Microsystems
  • James H Clark
    Founder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape, Healtheon, & MyCFO
  • David Filo
    Co-Founder and Chief Yahoo, Yahoo! Inc.
  • Mark Horowitz
    Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Computer Science, Stanford University, Cadence Design Systems Director of the Computer Systems Laboratory, The Yahoo! Founders Professor of Engineering, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist of Rambus, Inc.
  • Mendel Rosenblum
    Associate Professor of Computer Science and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist of VMware, Inc.
  • David Shaw
    Founder & Chairman of D.E. Shaw, Inc.
  • Jerry Yang
    Co-Founder and Chief Yahoo, Yahoo! Inc.


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CS40 - Closing Address

John L. Hennessy, President, Stanford University —

Why Computer Science Matters


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