p.4 EDITORIAL
[author : Nicholas Baran] #Edito
TABLE OF CONTENTS
p.6 THE FUTURE OF PROGRAMMING
[author : Eugene Eric Kim]
Programming is bound to get easier, but the real challenge is making programs better.
p.13 THE PROMISE OF MOLECULAR COMPUTING
[author : Mark Reed]
When Moore's Law reaches its limits, the next step may be the chemical synthesis of complex circuits.
p.17 HIGH-LEVEL PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT
[author : Bard Bloom, Jim Russell, John Vlissides, and Mark Wegman]
Application builders are poised to reach new levels of abstraction and automated optimization capabilities.
p.23 INNOVATIONS IN USER INTERFACES
[author : Neil Scott]
Research advances are improving the accessibility of computers for those with disabilities, and promise to make user interfaces better for us all.
p.29 COMPUTING WITH QUANTUM PHYSICS
[author : David Cory and Raymond Laflamme]
Quantum computing is another frontier beyond Moore's Law. Unprecedented computing power is the prize at the end of the long road ahead.
p.33 SECURITY RESEARCH AND THE FUTURE
[author : Bruce Schneier]
A noted security expert sees a future fraught with security threats and new technologies to combat them.
p.37 NEW LANGUAGES, OLD LOGIC
[author : Philip Wadler]
Who would have thought that the programming languages of the 21st century will be built upon foundations of logic theory from the 19th and 20th?
p.42 XEROX PARC AT 30: INSIDE A RESEARCH LAB
[author : Rich Gold]
A researcher at the venerable laboratory takes stock of Xerox PARC's place in the world of high-tech research.