Invited Talks ''Where have we been and where are we going?''

March 23rd | 10 a.m. | Room B003 | FEUP

Within the Lecture Series DEI, it will take place on Friday, March 23rd at room B003, the talk entitled:"Where have we been and where are we going?" by Prof. Andrew Tanenbaum, Vrije Universiteit.

For more details and registration, see: http://bit.ly/2G5MWWW

This talk is not related to the ENEI event program, where the speaker will have also a talk the next day.

Abstract
Revisiting the talk given in 2014, when formally retiring, it is mostly a historical talk about how much computer technology has changed since the Professor has been active in the field.

 Short Bio
"Andrew Stuart Tanenbaum, sometimes referred to by the handle 'ast', is an American-Dutch computer scientist and professor emeritus of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He is best known as the author of MINIX, a free Unix-like operating system for teaching purposes, and for his computer science textbooks, regarded as standard texts in the field. He regards his teaching job as his most important work."