Keynote: Future Directions for the Universal Digital Library Project

The UDL project was started in 1995 with the goal of providing universal access to "all authored works to anyone anywhere in the world". The UDL was intended to be multimedia including Books, Music, Movies, Lectures, Monuments, and Paintings. With the signing of the Million Book Project MOU with China in 2002, scanning books has been the primary objective. Commercial activities, such as Google Books, have supplanted many of the original plans. However, over 90% of the original task remains to be done. This talk will review the unfinished agenda and present the plans for the future.

Keynote Speaker:

Dr. Raj Reddy

Dr. Raj Reddy is the Mozah Bint Nasser University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford from 1966-69 and a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon faculty since 1969. He served as the founding Director of the Robotics Institute from 1979 to 1991 and the Dean of School of Computer Science from 1991 to 1999. Dr. Reddy's research interests include the study of human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence. His current research interests include Million Book Digital Library Project; Fiber To The Village Project; and Learning by Doing. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was president of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence from 1987 to 89. Dr. Reddy was awarded the Legion of Honor by President Mitterand of France in 1984. He was awarded the ACM Turing Award in 1994, the Okawa Prize in 2004, the Honda Prize in 2005, and the Vannevar Bush Award in 2006. He served as co-chair of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee from 1999 to 2001.

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