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|  | Professor Maurizio Davini, University of Pisa, Italy | | | Bill Halal, George Washington University | | | John Logue, Instructor and Animation Director for the Oregon3D: Center for Visualization Technologies | | | Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology | | | Richard Newton, Dean of Engineering, University of California at Berkeley | | | Professor Sowmyanarayanan Sadagopan, Founder & Director of the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore | | | Bernd Skiera, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Germany | | | Barry Wellman, University of Toronto |
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Studio 64
Academic Visionaries
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Maurizio
Davini
Professor, University of Pisa, Italy
"Certain kinds of simulations need a lot of
memory for matrix operations and data analysis, far more than the 4GB
that 32-bit processors can address. This is why we love x86-64 architecture." |
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William
E. Halal
Professor of Management, George Washington University
We think the next big application that will use all of the emerging IT power
is going to be the second coming of the Internet. Our forecasts show that
broadband, wireless, B2B, e-tailing, distance learning, etc. are likely
to reach mainstream adoption levels of 30% by about 2005-7. We also think
that two technological breakthroughs will make this possible: speech recognition
and flat wall monitors. These developments will usher in a new computer
interface, a transition from the dumb interface of the keyboard to a more
intelligent, comfortable system in which people just talk to the machine,
interacting with life-size, full motion images. It is this next generation
of the Internet that will harness the computing power of the 64-bit microprocessor."
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Richard
Newton
Dean of Engineering, University of California
at Berkeley
"Sixty-four bit is a no-brainer. It's the
inevitable progression of technology. Once it's there, you've just got to
have it." |
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John Logue
Instructor and Animation Director for the Oregon3D: Center
for Visualization Technologies
The issue is simply that we cannot help but continue to improve on our technology,
and 64-bit computing is just the next logical step in speed and quality
of all the varied things for which we use computers." more... |
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Bernd
Skiera
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, Germany
“64-bit systems allow users to implement
computing technologies they have not been able to implement due to a prohibitive
calculation time. In the area of marketing, personalization techniques
that build upon hierarchical bayes models will receive an even higher
attention and will allow companies to provide users with even more powerful
products.” |
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Sowmyanarayanan
Sadagopan
Professor, Founder Director of the Indian Institute
of Information Technology, Bangalore
"64-bit processors would be to computing what
wide-bodied jets (like Boeing 747 & Airbus 320) are during the four
decades (60's to today) to commercial aviation - reliable, affordable
and for everyone" |
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Barry
Wellman
Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto
“The way many people live and work is changing fundamentally from
groups to networks. This paradigm shift means that people no longer belong
to -- or work in -- one group. Rather, they are moving around in space
and online. Social networks, computer networks, information networks,
and communication networks are all coming together. 64-bit computing gives
much more ability to handle this paradigm shift to complex, multitasking
networked worlds.” |
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Satoshi
Matsuoka
Professor, Global Scientific Information and Computing
(GSIC) Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology
“In the arena of high-performance computing,
64-bit processing has always been the de-facto. All the supercomputers
we facilitate for production here at the GSIC Center, Tokyo Institute
of Technology, are 64-bit architecture machines. This is due to tremendous
demand for large volumes of data being processed for multitudes of high-end
and leading-edge scientific applications---a single application may consume
10s to 100s of Gigabytes of memory, and we expect that the next generation
of applications in the next several years will require Terabytes. Moreover,
high-end applications on desktops of tomorrow resemble high-end scientific
applications of today; for example, physical simulations of entities in
games, as well as graphics and sound capabilities, are increasingly exploiting
advanced algorithms that essentially resemble what are being run on supercomputers
today, with computing and data volume requirements that will likely scale
to current-day supercomputing requirements in the very near future. As
such, we deem 64-bit computing will quickly become the norm to facilitate
the exciting applications that will likely be available for people at
large, not just being restricted to advanced research by specialists,
such as scientists and engineers.” |
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