Terence Tao - The Future Impact of Internet-Based Technologies on Academia

The Future Impact of Internet-Based Technologies on Academia
Terence Tao, University of California, Los Angeles. Professor of Mathematics. Recipient of the Fields Medal in 2006. Made fundamental contributions to harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatoric, analytic number theory, and representation theory. In analysis, his results on the Kakeya conjecture are well known. In number theory, he proved, with Green, that there exist arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions of prime numbers.
On October 10, 2009, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences inducted its 229th class of Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members at a ceremony held in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Terence Tao, Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles; Elizabeth G. Nabel, President, Brigham & Women’s/Faulkner Hospitals and former Director, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; Ronald M. George, Chief Justice of California; Edward Villella, Founding Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer, Miami City Ballet; and Kent Kresa, Chairman Emeritus, Northrop Grumman Corporation, addressed the audience.