So the last week or 10 days has been an important time at Microsoft. We’ll have a drawing and giveaway some door prizes that are probably interesting to many of you, and we’ll do that right after I finish talking. And at the end, any of you that are interested to come up and play with the toys up here, we’ll be happy to allow you to do that, too. I know some of you may have to go to class at the end of the talk, although I’ll stay around here until probably at least 12:30, and we’ll have a Q&A session. So, in the course of the next hour, I want to share with you first some ideas about the technologies that we’re really focused on at Microsoft, and how we think they’re going to play out in the next few years, and then we’ll do a Q&A session. And so, I’ll have the opportunity to do that here today as well. We have always valued the ability to go and both share our ideas with people in the university about how technology is changing and might affect our lives in the future, but also to listen to things and learn from what’s going on in the university, both with the young people, the students, and with the faculty and the administration. These sessions are something that Bill Gates and I started doing about 15 years ago, and throughout his tenure at Microsoft and now mine sort of in inheriting his responsibilities as well. But it’s great to be here to talk with you. I’ve traveled here many times actually, although not to the university typically, to meet friends at AMD and Dell over the years. It’s great to be back in Austin again, and at UT.

So, please join me in welcoming Craig Mundie to the University of Texas at Austin. In 2009, President Obama appointed Craig to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, where he serves now with our own Professor Bill Press. Over his career Craig has built startups in numerous fields including supercomputing, consumer electronics, robotics, healthcare, education, and he’s carried that entrepreneurial spirit to the research labs of Microsoft, a lesson to us all.Ĭraig has played senior roles in setting policy on telecommunications and national security under three presidents. He’s also responsible for the company’s long-term technology strategy.

As just one of his responsibilities, Craig oversees Microsoft Research, the world’s largest computer science research organization. I’m delighted to introduce today Craig Mundie, the Chief Research and Strategy Officer at Microsoft. I’m the chair of the department of computer science.

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