Human Factors of XR: Using Human Factors to Design XR Systems
End of a trend
1. It’s over! The end of a 30 year trend in computing Miles Lewitt “ We are dedicating all of our future product development to … This is a sea change in computing” Paul Otellini (2005), President, Intel
2. Gordon Moore 2003 “ Another decade is probably straightforward... There is certainly no end to creativity.” Bio: Currently Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation. Moore co-founded Intel in 1968, serving initially as Executive Vice President. He became President and Chief Executive Officer in 1975 and held that post until elected Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in 1979. He remained CEO until 1987 and was named Chairman Emeritus in 1997. Moore earned a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Chemistry and Physics from the California Institute of Technology. He was born in San Francisco, Calif., on Jan. 3, 1929. He is a director of Gilead Sciences Inc., a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the IEEE. Moore also serves on the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology. He received the National Medal of Technology from President George Bush in 1990. 1965 Moore’s Law: “The number of transistors incorporated in a chip will double every 24 months”
3. Niklaus Wirth 1995 “ Software gets slower, faster than hardware gets faster" Bio: Professor of Computer Science at ETH (Federal Institute of Technology) in Zurich, Switzerland, from 1968 to 1999. His principal areas of contribution were programming languages and methodology, software engineering, and design of personal workstations. He has designed the programming languages Algol W (1965), Pascal (1970), Modula-2 (1979), and Oberon (1988), was involved in the methodologies of structured programming and stepwise refinement, and designed and built the workstations Lilith (1980) and Ceres (1986). He has published several text books for courses on programming, algorithms and data structures, and logical design of digital circuits. He has received various prizes and honorary doctorates, including the Turing Award (1984), the IEEE Computer Pioneer (1988), and the Award for outstanding contributions to Computer Science Education (acm 1987).
4. If the hardware ever stopped getting faster What would the impact be on developing and evolving software offerings?