MORE ESSAYS ON THE FUTURE OF COMPUTING THE NEW YORK TIMES, DECEMBER 2011

• NEW TOOLS FOR NEW COMPUTING CHALLENGES,  GEORGES NAHON

• LEAVE THE DRIVING TO THE CAR, AND REAP BENEFITS IN SAFETY AND MOBILITY, SEBASTIAN THRUN

• DEATH KNELL FOR THE LECTURE: TECHNOLOGY AS A PASSPORT TO PERSONALIZED EDUCATION, DAPHNE KOLLER

• IN PLANNING DIGITAL DEFENSES, THE BIGGEST OBSTACLE IS HUMAN INGENUITY,   STEFAN SAVAGE

• IN AN OPEN-SOURCE SOCIETY, INNOVATING BY THE SEAT OF OUR PANTS,  JOICHI ITO

• COMPUTER SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO HELP CURE CANCER, DAVID PATTERSON

• FULL SPEED AHEAD, WITHOUT A MAP, INTO NEW REALMS OF POSSIBILITY, THEODORE HOLM NELSON

• CHINA IS POISED FOR AN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (I.T.) GOLDEN AGE, KAI-FU LEE

•  NEW TOOLS FOR NEW COMPUTING CHALLENGES, GEORGES NAHON

ESSAY

New Tools for New Computing Challenges

By GEORGES NAHON

The New York Times, December 5, 2011

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/science/georges-nahon-new-tools-for-new-computing-challenges.html?ref=science

The world has moved to a data-centric paradigm, the era of “Big Data,” in which hundreds of millions of computers and mobile devices are continuously creating staggering amounts of information about people and everything else. This can only accelerate