Unix50 - The next generation: Student presentations

Hear from PhD students as they apply Unix principles to areas such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning and robotics as we look toward the next generation of technology breakthroughs. Presenters included: Jimmy Lin of the University of British Columbia, Michael Han of Harvard University, Rami Ali of Penn State University and Aalok Thakkar of the University of Pennsylvania.

We commemorated Unix’s anniversary with the Unix50 event, a two-day celebration that reflected on Unix’s past and explored the future of computing. Speakers and panelists included many of the original team that built Unix and designed the C programming language, as well as luminaries in the fields of computing and robotics. The event also featured a gallery of Unix artifacts, a coding challenge that required students to program robots to navigate the industrial spaces of the future, and numerous other activities drawing on Unix’s rich and colorful history at Bell Labs.