In this talk I will suggest what might be areas that our field will experience significant changes in in the next quarter century and where I believe scientist can make a substantial impact. I'll start by discussing the larger trends in society and in other sciences which will cause us to react. I believe that it's areas of change where we'll face new questions. Newer questions are more likely to be answerable than ones we've worked on for a long time and hence are fertile ground for people wanting to make a big impact to play in. I will also discuss trends within CS and the nearby fields of EE that are likely to themselves raise as yet unworked on questions. I will illustrate that these questions are not unanswerable by giving some examples of work that addresses these new trends.

Bio:
Dr. Mark Wegman joined IBM in 1975, where he is currently Head of Computer Science, IBM Research with world wide responsibilities in IBM’s eight research laboratories. He is an IBM Fellow, which is IBM’s highest technical honor. He is recognized for his significant contributions to computer algorithms and compiler optimization that have deeply influenced many areas of computer science and practice. This work was recognized by the Special Interest Group on Programming Languages in 2006 with it’s Programming Languages Achievement Award. Mark is the author of over 30 publications in the field of Computer Science. He received his doctorate in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.