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Conference Focuses on 'The Mobile Future'
An interview with James Morris
4/23/2008
And a more recent example is FaceBook. A group of Harvard students said, “Let’s just automate the old freshman face book. And suddenly they had created a social networking site that’s being used by maybe a million people -- and it just sort of came out of serving a simple university tradition.
So, I think universities certainly will lead. They can’t run the wireless infrastructure of the country -- there are many things they can’t do -- but in terms of understanding and having imagination about how new technologies can be applied, I think it happens there first.
CMU seems to be taking, very proactively, the initiative to get out there and talk to industry. Could you comment on that?
It’s part of the mission of our CMU West campus here in Silicon Valley to be close to industry. We see it as our role to help industry. But the conference that we are having this week is as much to help ourselves and to help the academics who are going to attend, to understand what’s happening with industry. We think of these conferences as industry-academic dialogs, to try to give some academic perspective to what’s going on, and to have industry explain what direction they are headed in. We’re committed to being catalysts for discussion.
(Photo: A "dean duo" -- Jim Morris, dean of CMU West, at left, and Len Waverman, dean of the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary, at right -- discussing the day's sessions at the close of The Mobile Future conference.)
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