Whats been the most innovative period in technology history?
The key big breakthroughs in the next decade–visual recognition, speech recognition, the ability to browse information in an unstructured way, the intelligent office where your white board lets you navigate your information and teleconference people in–those things will be based on work that we’ve been doing–and that universities have been doing–for more than 15 years. The really big things take time. The day they come out when you start to use speech and an intelligent white board, you’ll say, “What an innovative year!” But, in fact, it was an innovative 15 years that led to the magic price points, the quality and usability, and all those things. What proposals came across your desk that you passed on and wish that you hadn’t? I’ve probably had to make fewer choices not to do research than anyone else you’ll ever talk to. Microsoft was about software. Because of our success, anything related to software we were able to do–whether in security breakthroughs or speech or vision. I’d
The key big breakthroughs in the next decade–visual recognition, speech recognition, the ability to browse information in an unstructured way, the intelligent office where your white board lets you navigate your information and teleconference people in–those things will be based on work that we’ve been doing–and that universities have been doing–for more than 15 years. The really big things take time. The day they come out when you start to use speech and an intelligent white board, you’ll say, “What an innovative year!” But, in fact, it was an innovative 15 years that led to the magic price points, the quality and usability, and all those things. What proposals came across your desk that you passed on and wish that you hadn’t? I’ve probably had to make fewer choices not to do research than anyone else you’ll ever talk to. Microsoft was about software. Because of our success, anything related to software we were able to do–whether in security breakthroughs or speech or vision. I’d
