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Pemberton's laptop

Pemberton's laptop editorial P e m b e r t o n ™s L a p t o p acm interactions is a bimonthly publication of the ACM, The Association for Computing PUBLICATIONS OFFICE: ACM, 1515 Broadway, New York, New York 10036, USA +1-212-869-7440 FAX: +1-212-869-0481 Editor-in-Chief: Steven Pemberton (interactions@acm.org) Executive Editor: Ken Korman Managing Editor: Marisa E. Campbell Art Director: Susan Fung Production Manager: Lynn D ™Addesio Kraus Account Executive: William Kooney Column Editors: Business - Susan Dray (dray@acm.org) David A. Siegel (david.siegel@acm.org) Design - Kate Ehrlich (kehrlich@viant.com) Austin Henderson (henderson@rivcons.com) Whiteboard - Elizabeth Buie (ebuie@csc.com) Fast Forward - Aaron Marcus (Aaron@AMandA.com) Founding Editors: John Rheinfrank & Bill Hefley interactions (ISSN 1072-5220) is published six times a year in January, March, May, July, September, and November, by the Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 1515 Broadway, New York, NY 10036. Periodicals postage paid at New York, NY 10001 and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Please send address changes to interactions, ACM, 1515 Broadway, New York, NY 10036. http://www.acm.org/interactions Editorial Information: To contact interactions, e-mail our editors at interactions@acm.org or: feedback@interactions.acm.org letters@interactions.acm.org ideas@interactions.acm.org submissions@interactions.acm.org Submission information: All manuscripts should be submitted to interactions, ACM, 1515 Broadway, New York, New York 10036 or submissions@interactions.acm.org. Display Advertising Representatives M.J. Mrvica Associates, Inc. 2 West Taunton Avenue Berlin, NJ 08009 (856) 768-9360 FAX: (896) 753-0064 mjmrvica@mrvica.com Notice to Past Authors of ACM-Published Articles ACM intends to create a complete electronic archive of all articles and/or other material previously published by ACM. If you have written a work that was previously published by ACM in any journal or conference proceedings prior to 1978, or any SIG Newsletter at any time, and you do NOT want this work to appear in the ACM Digital Library, please inform permissions@acm.org, stating the title of the work, the author(s), and where and when published. O ne of the things I love about working in the computer field is Moore ™s Law. I know that in 10 years time I will have a computer 100 times as fast, and with similarly much more memory. People have been telling me since the ™70s that it will stop soon, but they ™ve been wrong for so long, that I feel secure in my belief that I won ™t see the end of it. Or the similar law for network bandwidth. What will I do with 64Gbytes of main memory on my laptop? Will I really have a multi Gigabit network connection to my home? When I was designing a programming language for personal computing in the ™80s (a language that led to Python by the way), people would laugh at me when I gave a talk to hobbyists and said that the language would never run on machines with less than 128K of memory. All they had were Commodore 64s. So I love to think about how changes in technology affect how we work with it. Who would have predicted the change that 300 dpi printers brought to how we print and publish? That ™s why it is a special delight this issue to have Ben Shneiderman, one of our top researchers in HCI, giving us a preview of his new book, contemplating what our needs are, and how the future use of technology could solve some of our problems. I hope you enjoy it too. Steven Pemberton interactions@acm.org interactions...september + october 2002 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png interactions Association for Computing Machinery

Pemberton's laptop

Pemberton, Steven
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editorial P e m b e r t o n ™s L a p t o p acm interactions is a bimonthly publication of the ACM, The Association for Computing PUBLICATIONS OFFICE: ACM, 1515 Broadway, New York, New York 10036, USA +1-212-869-7440 FAX: +1-212-869-0481 Editor-in-Chief: Steven Pemberton (interactions@acm.org) Executive Editor: Ken Korman Managing Editor: Marisa E. Campbell Art Director: Susan Fung Production Manager: Lynn D ™Addesio Kraus Account Executive: William Kooney Column Editors: Business - Susan Dray (dray@acm.org) David A. Siegel (david.siegel@acm.org) Design - Kate Ehrlich (kehrlich@viant.com) Austin Henderson (henderson@rivcons.com) Whiteboard - Elizabeth Buie (ebuie@csc.com) Fast Forward - Aaron Marcus (Aaron@AMandA.com) Founding Editors: John Rheinfrank & Bill Hefley interactions (ISSN 1072-5220) is published six times a year in January, March, May, July, September, and November, by the Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 1515 Broadway, New York, NY 10036. Periodicals postage paid at New York, NY 10001 and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Please send address changes to interactions, ACM, 1515 Broadway, New York, NY 10036. http://www.acm.org/interactions Editorial Information: To contact interactions, e-mail our editors at interactions@acm.org or: feedback@interactions.acm.org letters@interactions.acm.org ideas@interactions.acm.org submissions@interactions.acm.org Submission information: All manuscripts should be submitted to interactions, ACM, 1515 Broadway, New York, New York 10036 or submissions@interactions.acm.org. Display Advertising Representatives M.J. Mrvica Associates, Inc. 2 West Taunton Avenue Berlin, NJ 08009 (856) 768-9360 FAX: (896) 753-0064 mjmrvica@mrvica.com Notice to Past Authors of ACM-Published Articles ACM intends to create a complete electronic archive of all articles and/or other material previously published by ACM. If you have written a work that was previously published by ACM in any journal or conference proceedings prior to 1978, or any SIG Newsletter at any time, and you do NOT want this work to appear in the ACM Digital Library, please inform permissions@acm.org, stating the title of the work, the author(s), and where and when published. O ne of the things I love about working in the computer field is Moore ™s Law. I know that in 10 years time I will have a computer 100 times as fast, and with similarly much more memory. People have been telling me since the ™70s that it will stop soon, but they ™ve been wrong for so long, that I feel secure in my belief that I won ™t see the end of it. Or the similar law for network bandwidth. What will I do with 64Gbytes of main memory on my laptop? Will I really have a multi Gigabit network connection to my home? When I was designing a programming language for personal computing in the ™80s (a language that led to Python by the way), people would laugh at me when I gave a talk to hobbyists and said that the language would never run on machines with less than 128K of memory. All they had were Commodore 64s. So I love to think about how changes in technology affect how we work with it. Who would have predicted the change that 300 dpi printers brought to how we print and publish? That ™s why it is a special delight this issue to have Ben Shneiderman, one of our top researchers in HCI, giving us a preview of his new book, contemplating what our needs are, and how the future use of technology could solve some of our problems. I hope you enjoy it too. Steven Pemberton interactions@acm.org interactions...september + october 2002

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