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NEXTGENS: Breakthrough Technologies
July 27-28, 1998 in San Francisco, CA

SUNDAY, JULY 26
6:30 pm
Reception and Wine Tasting in the Loggia, The Fairmont Hotel
7:30 pm
Buffet Dinner in the Pavilion Room, The Fairmont Hotel

MONDAY, JULY 27
7:30 am

Continental Breakfast in the Grand Ballroom Foyer

8:30 am
OPENING REMARKS AND WELCOME in the Grand Ballroom
Tony Shaw, President, TTI/Vanguard
8:45 am
CONFERENCE OVERVIEW; PITFALLS IN PREDICTING
Doug Lenat, Chief Executive Officer, Cycorp and Advisory Board Member, TTI/Vanguard
9:15 am
SCALEABLE SERVERS BUILT FROM CYBERBRICKS - TRANSACTIONS TOO CHEAP TO METER
James N. Gray, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Corporation
10:15 am
Break
10:45 am
NEXT GENERATION NETWORKING, COMPUTING & COMMUNICATIONS
The Latency/Bandwidth Tradeoff
Leonard Kleinrock, CHAIRMAN, TTI/Vanguard and Professor of Computer Science, UCLA
Optical Networks... the Promise of Free Bits
Alan Huang, Chief Technology Officer, Terabit Corporation
Tele-Immersion: The Killer App for High Bandwidth Networks
Larry Smarr, Director, NCSA and Advisory Board Member, TTI/Vanguard
12:00 pm
JUNIOR SUMMIT 98: Giving the Podium to the Next Generation
Annette Tonti, Senior Fellow, TTI/Vanguard
12:15 pm
Lunch in the Venetian Room
1:30 pm
NEXT GENERATION DISPLAY TECHNOLOGIES
John Sculley, Partner, Sculley Brothers LLC
2:30 pm
Break
3:00 pm
UNCLE SAM WANTS...WHAT?!
Doug Lenat, Chief Executive Officer, Cycorp and Advisory Board Member, TTI/Vanguard
3:30 pm
BALLOON DEBATE
Moderator:
Nicholas Negroponte, Director, Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Advisory Board Member, TTI/Vanguard
TTI/Vanguard Advisory Board Members:
COMMUNICATIONS: Robert Lucky, VP, Applied Research, Bellcore
COMMUNITY: John Perry Barlow, Vice Chairman and Co-Founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation
COMPUTING: Gordon Bell, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Corporation
CONTENT: Alan Kay, Fellow and VP of R&D, Walt Disney Imagineering
4:45 pm
FIRST DAY CLOSING REMARKS
Doug Lenat, Chief Executive Officer, Cycorp and Advisory Board Member, TTI/Vanguard
6:00 pm
Reception at Shanghai 1930, 133 Steuart Street, San Francisco - (415) 896-5600
Bus departs Fairmont (meet in main lobby)
7:00 pm
Dinner Speaker: "Looking Beyond the Internet"
Arno Penzias, Senior Technology Advisor, Lucent Ventures and New Enterprise Associates
9:00 pm
Approximate time of return to the Fairmont Hotel, transportation provided.

TUESDAY, JULY 28
7:30 am

Continental Breakfast in Grand Ballroom Foyer

8:30 am
OPENING REMARKS
Tony Shaw, President, TTI/Vanguard
8:40 am
NINE STEPS TO ENABLING INTERNET COMMERCE
Geoffrey Moore, Chairman, The Chasm Group
9:40 am
Break
10:00 am

MICROMECHANICAL BREAKTHROUGHS AND APPLICATIONS
Micromechanical Breakthroughs
Kristofer S.J. Pister, Director, Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center, University of California, Berkeley

MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) - Some Things are Even Harder Than They Look!
Thomas Kenny, Assistant Professor, Stanford University

11:00 am
NEW MODELS OF RESEARCH
David Liddle, President and Chief Executive Officer, Interval Research Corporation
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
SMART SPACES AND FAST NETWORKS
Craig Partridge, Chief Scientist, BBN Technologies
2:00 pm
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO NEW MEDIA
William R. Hearst III, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
3:00 pm
MEETING SUMMARY AND CLOSING REMARKS
Doug Lenat, Chief Executive Officer, Cycorp and Advisory Board Member, TTI/Vanguard

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