Moshe Kam, chairman and chief executive of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2011, said in an interview that after the rapid development of personal computers and the Internet, the next wave will be cloud computing, and the future PC will look like The ordinary phone disappears and is replaced by one or more simple human-computer interaction interfaces. IEEE is the world's largest scientific and technical professional organization. It has about 400,000 members in 160 countries and its number of published papers accounts for 30% of papers in the global electrical and electronic engineering and computer science fields. It founded nearly 900 active industry standards, including the IEEE 802 series of standards that lead wireless communications. IEEE 2011 Chairman and CEO Kam and Tariq S, IEEE Vice President of Educational Activities. Durrani and his entourage came to China in recent days and accepted an exclusive interview with Sina Technology yesterday.
The proportion of Chinese members is unreasonable. Kam said that Chinese engineers are very good at many scientific researches. For example, the IEEE Fellow (the highest grade member in the IEEE, equivalent to the academician level) has 55 people in China.
At the same time, Kam also believes that China still has a lot of room for growth in terms of R&D and communication. According to its introduction, there are about 7,500 IEEE members in China, about 400,000 in the world, more than 220,000 in the United States, 6,000 in one city in Philadelphia, and 27,000 in India, and many countries in Europe such as the United Kingdom and France. Both Germany and Germany are close to and more than China, and Japan is also.
"But considering that China is the world's most populous and most engineered country, we think this ratio is unreasonable. The IEEE should have more members in China," said Kam.
In terms of publication of scientific papers, although China has grown very fast, the total number still lags behind Japan in Asia.
English ability is a great hindrance "I very much want to say that it is very important for Chinese technicians to communicate in English," said Kam.
English is currently the language of communication in science and technology. Kam said that he had been to China since 2005. When communicating with many of China's most outstanding professors, he must also rely on interpreters. "I think that many Chinese engineers and professors have inadequate English skills and will greatly hamper their research results. It is recognized by more people in the world that it greatly weakens the influence of their research on the world."
According to Durrani, the IEEE is currently promoting the technical English project, which has been carried out in St. Petersburg, Russia, Uruguay, South America, and the Middle East. It is now planned to be carried out in China. It will cooperate with domestic universities and give advanced teaching methods to Chinese universities. And general English teachers.
The PC is disappearing. "At least 12 standards for the computer you are using are set by the IEEE, including screens, USB, WiFi, etc." Kam emphasized IEEE's achievements in information technology.
Speaking of new trends in the field of information technology, he said that although forecasting the future is a "very dangerous" thing, he still believes that cloud computing will be the next direction of development after personal computers and the Internet.
Kam said, "This is not the next wave of information technology, but it is already happening. I think that in the future, computers and other electronic products will be more and more simple, with fewer and fewer functions, and fewer and fewer things will be stored. Machines will It will become an interface for human-computer interaction, and the entire back-end central network will provide a complete set of services, all of which will be stored in the network. People will enter the network and be as small, simple and easy to use as the mobile phones in our hands. The machine will not be as complex as a PC now."
"Like ordinary telephones eventually disappearing, PCs will disappear and be replaced by one or more human-machine interfaces. These interfaces are as simple and easy to use as mobile phones. This is happening nowadays, people are using the mobile Internet more. Such as iPad, iPhone, etc. After a few years, although PC will not completely disappear, but people will rarely use." Kam said.
Another reason why IEEE conducted cloud computing project research is that it is committed to the unification and integration of technologies. IEEE thinks that cloud computing is very important, but there are still a lot of unclear directions. Different standards are playing games. Kam hopes that IEEE can help the industry solve these problems.
"The IEEE believes that it is very important for industry to agree quickly." Kam took a counterexample, "Because the time spent on high-definition television (HDTV) from the formation of technology to the standard setting took too much time, the project did not In the end, the IEEE did not want such a thing to repeat itself on other projects."