Shaping the Foundations of Programming Languages

It's wonderful to be in an area like computer science because, as we expand its reach, we encounter problems for which we don't even have the appropriate abstractions to be able to think about them. When you imagine the future of the field, what areas do you think hold the most promise? AHO: That is a great question. Particularly with fields like AI, we're starting to replace people who do routine cognitive jobs with computer programs. What will the job market of the future be with this increasing capacity and power of computing?