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APEC CEO Summit 2009

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Microsoft’s Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Craig Mundie last week addressed the APEC CEO Summit 2009 in Singapore, on the topic “What is the next big thing? The session focused on the newest sources of innovation worldwide in the next few years, and lessons on fostering and promoting innovation.

Mr Mundie raised the idea of the transformative advances in computer technology expected over the next decade. The biggest change in forty years will see computers transition from performing processes  one at a time to performing several functions in parallel. The state and function of the Internet today is best encapsulated by the term “cloud computing”.

Mr Mundie described some of the breakthrough research currently being conducted by Microsoft, which includes an apparatus called the Cell Scope, a lens that can be installed on the back of a mobile phone to serve as a molecular microscope and accompanying ultrasound capabilities that will allow computation to be conducted directly in the phone itself. Such innovations will dramatically lower the cost of providing medical care in a field environment, thereby increasing access. They also have the potential to contribute to breakthrough solutions to healthcare, education, and climate change problems, and to enable multidisciplinary solutions to global society’s greatest challenges.*

*Comments based on summary notes taken from the APEC CEO Summit 2009

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  • Anonymous
    November 17, 2009
    This Session will be great, the topic is very intriguing “What is the next big thing?