It was my genuine pleasure to get to share my thoughts about the past and future of edge computing at the ACM Symposium on Edge Computing 2025 panel, “Looking Back and Moving Forward: 10 Years of Edge Computing.”
My highest-level takeaway: we are entering the era of human-facing, intelligent spatial systems. Edge computing is inevitable: as computing systems incorporate more real-time AI and more embodied agents, such as robots, the edge becomes not a nice-to-have but a true necessity. Interactive, human-facing, semantically aware computer systems simply cannot reach the right level of responsiveness without it. But, will we do the right thing and use edge for good? There is a nightmare scenario in which today’s buggy, insecure, and privacy-compromising systems spread into more and more aspects of our day-to-day lives. Is this the world we want to leave to our children? We need to commit to doing better.
Slides of my panel presentation
