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NEXTGENS: Impending New Technologies
October 4-6, 1999 in Phoenix, AZ

SUNDAY, October 3 - FOR MEMBERS ONLY
6:30 pm
Dinner and Drinks

MONDAY, October 4 - FOR MEMBERS' ONLY
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
MEMBERS' ONLY WORKSHOP
" The Human Side of IT Implementation: Managing Change at Warp Speed"

Conducted by Herman Gyr, Enterprise Development Group and Bill Mark, SRI International
5:00 pm
WORKSHOP Wrap-up
6:30 pm
Welcome Reception and Dinner (for all NEXTGENS conference attendees)

TUESDAY, October 5 - NEXTGENS CONFERENCE
7:30 am

Breakfast

8:30 am
Conference Welcome
Len Kleinrock, TTI/Vanguard
8:35 am
Conference Overview
Peter Cochrane, TTI/Vanguard Advisory Board
8:45 am
Collective IQ, Improvement Infrastructures, and a Bootstrap Society
Doug Engelbart, Director, Bootstrap Institute
9:50 am
Break
10:15 am
The Future of the Future
Nicholas Negroponte, Director, Media Laboratory and Professor, Media Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11:00 pm
Talking Back to the Future
Jo Lernout, Co-chairman and Co-founder, Lernout and Hauspie
11:45 pm
Spurring the Educational Revolution
Leon Lederman, Nobel Laureate in Physics
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:45 pm
The Wearable Motherboard: A Flexible Information Infrastructure for Personal Information Processing
Sundaresan Jayaraman, Professor, School of Textile and Fiber Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
2:30 pm
Click on the Real World! An Exploration of the Information Benefits and Commercial Opportunities of Position and Heading Intelligent Mobile Devices
John Ellenby, President, GeoVector Corporation
3:15 pm
Break
3:45 pm
Internet Platform Directions and Services
Edmund Muth, Marketing Director - Business and Enterprise Division, Microsoft
4:30 pm
Conclusion
6:30 pm
Reception and Dinner (for all NEXTGENS Conference attendees)

WEDNESDAY, October 6 - NEXTGENS CONFERENCE
7:15 am

Breakfast

8:00 am
Welcome
9:05 am
The Search for Patterns
Murray Gell-Mann, Distinguished Fellow and Co-Chair of the Science Board, Santa Fe Institute, and Nobel Laureate in Physics
10:05 am
Break
10:30 am
Jini Technology and Its Effect on the Computing Environments of Tomorrow
Bill Joy, Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Sun Microsystems
11:30 am
Artificial Life: A New Form of Intelligence
Chris Winter, Vice President of Development, Cyberlife Technology Ltd.
12:15 pm
Lunch
1:15 pm
The Future of QuickTime
Frank Casanova, Director, QuickTime Product Marketing, Apple Computer, Inc..
2:00 pm
A Moving Picture is Worth A Million Words
Dan Bryson, Founder and CEO, Stark Design, Inc.
2:45 pm
Break
3:00 pm
Wrap-up
Bob Lucky

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