Intel …ON THE FUTURE OF… Computing

Melissa Gregg is a Senior Principal Engineer at Intel, and whose work involves researching how people use their devices, and working that into Intel’s strategies. She’s part of the team developing Project Athena, a template for a new generation of laptops designed to address recent changes in how we work as a society.

Do you think there’s an important distinction between a more traditional computer with a full interface, and simpler devices or appliances that have invisible software?

I think that there’s an interesting continuum right now where the visibility, or the literacy required of computing, is much broader than it once was. It’s very easy to talk to an Echo or a Google Home. It doesn’t require you to have a great deal of programming knowledge in order to have the end result of knowing what the weather’s