Algorithm Design Challenges

摘要

Considering the tremendous growth of computer science in the last twenty five years, since the first personal computer made its appearance, and the even stronger impetus that to this growth was given by the creation of the World Wide Web, I do not think that anybody could dare to say what computing will be like during the 21st century. We are by now used to quite unexpected technological leaps that change the picture that is in our hands while we are still trying to analyze it and we do not know what else is waiting us behind the corner. May be, although I am quite skeptical, that some technological breakthrough will make molecular computers or quantum computers available earlier than we might expect and that this might dramatically change our view of computing.