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dots The School of Computing The Organick Memorial Lectures
  • Kristen Nygaard, 1986-87
    System Development as a Technical and Societal Process
    What is Object-Oriented Programming?

  • John E. Hopcroft, 1987-88
    Objects Need Not Be Real
    Algorithmic Problems in Solid Modeling

  • C. A. R. Hoare, 1988-89
    Formal Methods in Computing Science:
    Formal Methods in Systems Engineering: A Case Study

  • Donald E. Knuth, 1989-90
    The Errors of TeX
    Stable Husbands

  • Carver A. Mead, 1990-91
    The Nervous System as a Model of Computation
    Adaptive Analog VLSI Systems

  • Dana S. Scott, 1991-92
    Experience Using Mathematica
    Lattices and Semantics

  • Ivan Sutherland, 1992-93
    The Future Ain't What It Used To Be
    Fast CMOS Circuits

  • Butler W. Lampson, 1993-94
    Putting Telecommunications on the Technology Curve
    Interconnecting Computers: Architecture, Technology, and Economics

  • Robert E. Kahn, 1994-95
    The Role of the Intellectual Property in the National Information Infrastructure
    Architectural Considerations for a National Digital Library

  • John Hennessy, 1995-96
    Directions and Challenges in High Performance Microprocessors
    Convergence Architectures and the Stanford Flash Machine

  • Raj Reddy, 1996-97
    ``All Authored Works On-Line'': A Global Infrastructure for Universal Access to Information
    ``To Err is Human'': Computational Limits to Human Thinking and Implications for the Design of User Interfaces

  • Richard M. Karp, 1997-98
    Algorithmic Problems in Molecular Biology
    Algorithms for Mapping DNA

  • Guy L. Steele, Jr., 1998-99
    Solving a Game
    Speculative Parallelism Speeds Up Floating Point Arithmetic


  • Takeo Kanade, 1999-2000
    Autonomous Robots: Past, Present and Future
    Virtualized Reality: 4D Modeling of Time Varying Events


  • Bill Joy, 2000-2001:
    A Prospectus of the Information Age
    Resilient Computing in a Sea of Webs

  • David Gelernter, 2001-2002:
    Today's Computer Culture: The Unsettling Reality beneath the Fixed Smile
    Lifestreams instead of Operating Systems for Basic Information

  • David Patterson, 2002-2003:
    Designing Computers to Crash Quickly
    Progress in Rocking (Recovery Oriented Computing)

  • Jim Gray, 2003-2004:
    The World-Wide Telescope as a Prototype for the New Computational Science
    Distributed Computing Economics

  • Vinton Cerf, 2004-2005:
    Internet Past, Present and Future
    Technological Challenges for Computer Science and the Internet

  • Alan Kay, 2005-2006:
    Are 'Computer Science' and 'Software Engineering' Oxymorons?
    Children, Powerful Ideas, and the $100 Laptop

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