Venue: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Speaker: Jeffrey D. Ullman Title: Future Directions in Computer Science Research Understanding and Generating Natural Language Grand Challenges: Machine translation with high accuracy, in a significant domain. Retrieval of information from text, answer question about content of document. Research Topics: NLP - representing and modelling of information Speech recognition Computational Modelling and Prototyping Grand Challenges: Concurrent engineering: system including design aids, design information resources, virtual assemble, virtual testing, device simulation.