Quo Vadimus : computer science in a decade

A panel discussion was held during the third biennial meeting of chairmen of Ph.D.-granting computer science departments in June, 1978 at Snowbird, Utah, a meeting sponsored by the Computer Science Board. Invitees from industry and government were also present. A report was prepared from tapes made of the discussion (Department of Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University: Report #CMU-CS-80-127, June 1980). It contained all the prepared statements of the panelists, lightly edited, and the panelists' discussion in its entirety. A selection of the audience discussion was also included, rather heavily edited. The following presentation is derived from that report.