Featured in Five is a monthly section where we pose five questions to a Computing Reviews featured reviewer. Here are the responses from our October featured reviewer, Bálint Molnár.
Q) What is the most important thing that's happened in computing in the past 10 years?
A) New database technologies and various methods of computational intelligence—artificial intelligence (AI), data science, machine learning, and so on—have found widespread application in practice.
Q) If you weren't working in the computer science field, what would you be doing instead?
A) A historian who studies the changes to everyday life throughout history.
Q) By the end of your career, where do you think computer science will have taken us? What are you working on that might contribute toward that?
A) It will be necessary for people to obtain higher-level education and skills that include not only computer literacy but also the handling of complex systems in human environments. I work on business processes and workflows in enterprises that exploit recent technologies such as blockchain and AI/data science
Q) Who is your favorite historical figure? Why?
A) Archimedes—he developed many advanced (though premature) ideas in mathematics.
Q) What is your favorite type of music?
A) Rock and classical.
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