Computation and the Transformation of Practically Everything: Closing Remarks (Day 2)

ZUE: To run a conference or symposium, you need three things. You need speakers, you need audience, and you need organizational skills. I hope you agree with me. After two days, we managed to assemble an exceptional group of speakers who has been really terrific.

And I want to thank you, the audience, for being so interested. And among all of you who are remaining, thank you for your endurance. Now, yeah.

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And the last thing is organizational skills. And many people worked behind the scenes to make this is a success. And I want to thank the session chairs, who managed to keep time in remarkable and surgical precision. And the MIT conference services had run this thing smoothly for all of us.

And last but not least, I want you to know that the organizational committee for this symposium have been working very hard to make this a possibility-- a reality, that is. For many, many months we've been meeting once a week under the guidance of Professor John Guttag.

And what I like to do now is to recognize this organization committee. Is-- Randy Davis, please come up.

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Is Fredo here? Fredo Durand? All right.

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John, John Guttag.

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Nancy Lynch.

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And Victoria Palay.

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And Steve Ward.

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And these people worked very hard for many, many months. I want to thank them very much. And now I turn it over to John Guttag.

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GUTTAG: I promise to be very brief. If you look you'll see, I think, seven people up here. And any of you who've ever been in anything where you have seven people in charge know that, actually, nobody is in charge. So the truth is, there was actually one person in charge of this whole thing, and the person who made it really work, and I think we owe a special round of applause to [? Vickie ?] Palay.

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GUTTAG: Thank you, [? Vickie. ?]