Janna Quitney Anderson, assistant professor in the School of Communications, will attend the 20th anniversary symposium of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board at the National Academy of Science in Washington, D.C., Oct. 17. The event, titled “2016,” will consider how computer science and telecommunications will look in 10 years.
She will represent the Pew Internet & American Life Project and Elon University at the event. Featured participants include Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google; internet architect David Clark of MIT; Rick Rashid, a senior vice president with Microsoft; Irv Wladawsky-Berger, IBM vice president; Prabhakar Raghavan of Yahoo Research; and Ralph Cicerone, president of the National Academies.