Association for the
Advancement of Computing in Education
Celebrating 30+ Years of
Service to the IT in Education / E-Learning Community
Celebrating 30+ Years of
Service to the IT in Education / E-Learning Community
Keynote SpeakerLong Range Forecasting Is Necessary But Impossible-- Also In Education
In this talk I show why we need long-range forecasts, why they are almost impossible, will show some forecasts made in the past and what happened to them, and will add a detailed and thought provoking forecast of the convergence of technologies, including novel pictures and video-clips.
Professor Dr. Hermann Maurer is Professor Emeritus at Graz University of Technology. He started his career at the University of Calgary as Assistant and Associate Professor, was appointed full Professor at Karlsruhe just before he turned 30, and has been now Professor and Dean in Computer Science at Graz University of Technology since 1978, with some interruptions, like guest-professorships of more than a year at Denver University, University of Auckland, and shorter visits to Edith Cowan University in Perth, SMU in Dallas, Waterloo, Brasilia and others. Chair of the Informatics Section of Academia Europaea, “The Academy of Europe since April 2009. Many national and international distinctions, author of over 650 papers and 20 books, founder of a number of companies, supervised some 60 Ph.D. and over 400 M.Sc. students and was leader of numerous multimillion Euro projects. More about him than you ever want to read under ww.iicm.edu/maurer.
