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The Future of Systems
September 7-8, 2000 in San Jose, CA

WEDNESDAY, September 6
Room: Auditorium
12:15 pm
Depart Fairmont for Xerox PARC
1:00 pm
Arrive & Welcome
Lois Wong, Customer & Media Relations
Rich Gold, Area Manager
1:15 pm
PARC Research Overview and The Future of Reading
Rich Gold, Area Manager
Research in Experimental Documents
2:15 pm
Sparrow
Eric Bier and/or Ken Pier
Information Sciences & Technologies Laboratory
2:45 pm
Break
3:00 pm
Collaborative Sensing
Feng Zhao, Principal Scientist
Systems & Practices Laboratory
3:30 pm
An Abundance of Cryptography & The Cryptoserver
Tom Berson, Principal Scientist
Teresa Lunt, Area Manager
Computer Science Laboratory
4:15 pm
Thank you for coming to PARC!
4:45 pm
Arrive at Fairmont from PARC
7:00 pm
Reception and Buffet Dinner (at 7:30 pm)

THURSDAY, September 7
7:00 am

Breakfast

8:30 am
CONFERENCE WELCOME & OVERVIEW
Leonard Kleinrock, TTI/Vanguard Advisory Board
9:00 am
E-BUSINESS
Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO, Novell
10:15 am
Break
10:45 am
EMBEDDING THE INTERNET
Deborah Estrin, Professor, UCLA
11:45 am
.NET FRAMEWORK
Dan Ling, Vice President, Microsoft Research Redmond
12:45 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm
Depart Fairmont for Moffett Field
2:45 pm
NASA RESEARCH INSIGHTS
NASA Speaker(s) Bill Berry, Peter Norvig and Lynn Rothschild
4:15 pm
Break
4:45 pm
LIVING IN A VIRTUAL WORLD
Douglas Adams
5:45 pm
Move to reception at Computer Museum
7:30 pm
Reception and Dinner

FRIDAY , September 8
7:00 am

Breakfast

8:00 am
EXPRESSIVE SYSTEMS
Richard Pawson, CSC
9:00 am
RE-ENGINEERING ENGINEERING
Vinod Khosla, Kleiner Perkins
10:00 am
Break
10:30 am
SOFTWARE RADIO
David Tennenhouse, VP Research, Intel
11:30 am
DIGITIZATION AND THE RESTRUCTURING OF INDUSTRY
Brian Arthur, Santa Fe Institute
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:45 pm
THE FUTURE OF SYSTEMS
A Panel of TTI/Vanguard Board Members
2:45 pm
SUMMARY
Bob Lucky, TTI/Vanguard Advisory Board
3:30 pm
Close of Conference

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