CCC Looking for “Game Changers” in Computing, Picks Four of its Own


The Computing Community Consortium is looking for help with a brainstorming exercise. Here’s what they have in mind:

Identify about a dozen game-changing advances from computing research conducted in the past 20 years. Here’s what we mean:

  • The advance needs to be “game changing,”in the sense of dramatically altering how we think about computing and its applications.
  • The importance of the advance needs to be obvious and easily appreciated by a wide audience.
  • There needs to be a clear tie to computing research (or to infrastructure initiatives that build upon research and were sponsored by computing research organizations).
  • We’re particularly interested in highlighting the impact of federally-funded university-based research.

To start the conversation, they’ve picked four examples:

  • The Internet and the World Wide Web as we know them today
  • Search
  • Cluster Computing
  • Computational Science

Agree? Disagree? Have others to suggest? You can do it all by heading to the thread on the CCC Blog and adding your two (or more) cents.

CCC Looking for “Game Changers” in Computing, Picks Four of its Own