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A Multidisciplinary Conference Sponsored by
the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and
the Los Alamos National Laboratory
The preliminary outline of the Conference is as
follows:
- Introduction and Plenary Talk
- Context: The Continuum of Civilization
- Origins: Learning from Past Scientific and Social Revolutions
- Understanding the Present State of Technology and Society
- Navigating the Future
- Potentials: Supercomputing and the Quest for Understanding
- Supercomputing technology
- Using Supercomputers to Model the World
- Using Supercomputers to Model Life
- Using Supercomputers to Model the Brain
- Implications: Supercomputers and the Human Endeavor
- The Ability of Supercomputer Technology to Address Individual
Human Needs
- The Impact of Supercomputer Technology on Society
- Conclusions: Navigating the Future
- Managing Change and Creating Opportunity
- Policy Challenges
The success of the Conference will be judged by two principal
metrics. First, we will consider the conference a success if we can assemble
a diverse set of thinkers to discuss the coming revolution in supercomputing
and its impact on the individual and society. Second, we will judge the
conference a success if in ten years it is remembered as having given
rise to some of the seminal ideas that defined the course of the application
of this new technology to the improvement of the human condition.
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