Paul Horn, a senior vice president and director of research, will deliver the 66th Steinmetz Memorial Lecture titled “The Future of Information Technology” on Monday, Oct. 13, at 7:30 p.m. in Memorial Chapel.
The lecture, cosponsored by the College's Division of Engineering and the
Schenectady Section of the Institute
of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, is free and open to the public.
An exhibition on Steinmetz in the Nott Memorial will be on display during
the talk.
Horn oversees the world's largest and most
prolific research organization dedicated to information technology, with 3,000
researchers at eight labs worldwide. Under Horn's leadership, IBM
Research has produced a string of technological breakthroughs
including the chess-playing supercomputer Deep Blue, the world's first copper
chip, the giant magneto-resistive head (GMR) and strained silicon (a discovery
that allows chips to run up to 35 percent faster).
Horn was previously vice president
and lab director of IBM Research's Almaden
Research Center
in San Jose, where he was credited
with tightly linking research innovation with the corporation's storage
development operation.
The Steinmetz Memorial Lecture
Endowment Fund was created in 1925 as a tribute to Charles Proteus Steinmetz
(1865-1923). Since then, more than 60 eminent scientists and engineers have
presented public lectures on the Union College campus in
honor of the GE scientist and Union professor who was one of the greatest
contributors to the growth of the electrical industry in
the U.S.
