Future Technology
| Craig Mundie, senior advisor to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer recently spoke at Yale University about how computer technology will continue to shape the future and to demonstrate transformational technologies in development at Microsoft. |
Recently, Mundie spoke at Yale University on the future of computer technology and how transformational technologies will have an impact.
According to Mundie, "There's no reason to believe in the future that any person anywhere in the world who can afford to buy a television or a cell phone won't in the process, in the bargain, be buying a computer system and probably some type of inherent connectivity. And with that, we can really think about how computing then provides a much different range of benefits for all those people."
In terms of computer interfaces of the future Mundie asserts that, "even without assuming there's any radical breakthroughs in technology, we find it completely plausible to believe that you should think that there will be a continuum of screen sizes that will be ultimately touch- and gesture-enabled, and they'll range from the very small, probably as small as your watch perhaps, up to the very large certainly, which will be wall-sized in your office."
“Today, we find ourselves embarking on one of the biggest transformations in computing ever, where the computer shifts from being a tool to being a helper, and the computing interface evolves from something we drive to something that’s more like us.” Mundie says.
Mundie has spent much of his career building startups in various fields, including supercomputing, consumer electronics, education, healthcare and robotics. He joined Microsoft in 1992 to create and run the Consumer Platforms Division, which developed non-PC platforms such as the Windows CE operating system; software for the Handheld PC, Pocket PC and Auto PC; and early console-gaming products. Mundie also started Microsoft's digital-TV efforts, acquiring and managing its WebTV Networks subsidiary, and built its fast-growing healthcare solutions business.
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Prior to his current role, Mundie served as Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer, where he oversaw Microsoft Research, one of the world's largest computer-science research organizations, and was responsible for Microsoft's long-term technology strategy, directing a number of technology incubations. Mundie has also served as Microsoft's chief technical officer for advanced strategies and policy, working with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates to develop the company's global strategies around technical, business and policy issues.
For more than a decade, Mundie has also been Microsoft's principal technology-policy liaison to the U.S. and foreign governments, with an emphasis on China, India and Russia. He has served on the U.S. National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee and the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age. In April 2009 Mundie was appointed by President Barack Obama to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
SOURCE Yale University, Microsoft
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