Turner Whitted
is a senior researcher in Microsoft's hardware devices research group. His research focuses on devices for display and interaction. He cofounded Numerical Design Ltd., where he was also Director, and was Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Also, Whitted was on the technical staff at Bell Labs, where he invented a widely used recursive ray tracing algorithm. He earned BSE and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Duke and a PhD from North Carolina State University. He is an Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications and is an ACM Fellow. Digital Appliances in New and Classic Spaces A central theme in modern computing is its migration away from centralized boxes and its diffusion into everyday spaces. This is enabled by the shrinking size and cost of the component technologies and fueled by our desire to use digital services without being tethered. Untethered computing appliances may fit invisibly into a pocket or be as conspicuous as televisions. Newly constructed spaces attempt to accommodate technology by providing space, pathways for connectivity, power, and cooling. The result is problematic; technology evolves much faster than construction practice. Designers must attempt to anticipate the effect of new appliances without knowing the specifics of their design or even their function. A greater challenge is bringing the information age to timeless places. It would be unthinkable to glue our current clumsy technology into ancient sites and unwise to exclude the future from the past entirely. The solution is to hide the future in the past. How can we bring ubiquitous technologies and interfaces into such sites without destroying them? While we cannot anticipate how hidden technology might affect the use and characteristics of either new or classic sites, we can begin to talk online the potential for technology to both appear and disappear in these places. See schedule.	program BILL BUXTON ANDY CAMERON MATTHEW CHALMERS DANIEL DÖGL BILL GAVER NEIL GERSHENFELD ANDREW GLASSNER PAUL HAEBERLI TOM HEWETT BREWSTER KAHLE PANU KORHONEN DOUG LENAT JO LERNOUT RALPH MERKLE THEODOR H. NELSON CELIA PEARCE MARK PESCE HANI RASHID BILL SCHILIT DAVID SMALL MARCO SUSANI JOHN THACKARA MICHAEL FREEDMAN TURNER WHITTED ANTON ZEILINGER
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