Abstract
Continued, significant advances in technology have dramatically affected the computer industry, particularly in the past 5-6 years. Legacy systems of only a decade ago have largely been transformed into interconnected networks of systems forming the Internet and corporate intranets based on clusters of servers. Much of this transformation has been fueled by relentless performance improvements in high performance microprocessors. There are also fundamental changes in the nature of telecommunications and the services it provides. In this talk, several core technologies are identified that require continued research and development by hardware and software vendors and university and industrial research and development laboratories in order to be competitive in this changing environment. Examples illustrate some of the myriad open problems in this area. This talk explores these technology changes and the impacts they are having on the globalization of the computer industry. Implications about curricula, research, development, and technology transfer in universities will also be discussed.

Biography
Bruce Shriver received a Ph.D. in computer science from SUNY/Buffalo in 1971. He was a visitor at the University of Aarhus in Denmark for 2-years, the Alfred Lamson Research Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southwestern Louisiana where he also was the Vice-President for Research in 1990. Shriver joined IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center as a Research Staff Member and the Department Group Manager of Software Technology in 1984, held an endowed chair at the University of Hawaii and has been an adjunct professor at Oregon State University, the Technical University of Berlin and currently, at the University of Tromso in Norway. Shriver's consulting firm, Genesis 2, Inc. is involved in contract research and development, undertaking studies on core technologies, product design and implementation review and analysis, strategic planning, technology transfer activities, and intellectual property and other patent related issues. He has been very active in the IEEE Computer Society, he was President in 1992, Editor-in-Chief of Computer and IEEE Software and is currently Chair of the Central and Easter European Initiatives Committee. (CEEIC). He is an IEEE Fellow.