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The Future of Software
April 30 – May 1, 2001 in Los Angeles, CA

SUNDAY, April 29
7:00 pm

Reception and Buffet Dinner (at 7:30 pm)


MONDAY, April 30
7:00 am

Breakfast

8:30 am
CONFERENCE WELCOME & INTRODUCTION
Leonard Kleinrock, TTI/Vanguard Advisory Board
8:40 am
CONFERENCE OVERVIEW
Alan Kay, Vice President, Research & Development, The Walt Disney Company
8:50 am
STATEMENT OF ENDSTATES
Dave Mason, Jim Herman, NerveWire Fellows, NerveWire, Inc.
9:00 am
WHY SOFTWARE SUCKS
Bran Ferren, Co-chairman & Chief Creative Officer, Applied Minds, Inc.
10:00 am
Break
10:30 am
HORMONE-CONTROLLED METAMORPHIC ROBOTS
Wei-Min Shen, Project Leader & Senior Research Scientist, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
11:00 am
HOW SOFTWARE COMPONENTS GREW UP AND CONQUERED THE WORLD
Butler Lampson, Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft Corporation
12:00 pm
SOFTWARE DEMOS
James Phillips, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Internet Pictures Corporation (iPIX)
Matt Lerner, Co-founder & CTO, E-Quill Corporation
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:45 pm
ENTERPRISE TRANSFORMATION - THE CASE FOR COLLABORATION
Alan Baratz, CEO, Zaplet, Inc.
2:45 pm
SOFTWARE DEMO
Mike Rosen, President & Chief Executive Officer, 2ce, Inc.
3:00 pm
Break
3:30 pm
THE INTRACTABLE NATURE OF WETWARE: TACIT KNOWLEDGE, EXPERTISE, AND CREATIVITY
Dorothy Leonard, Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
4:30 pm
ASP: A BUSINESS MODEL UNDER SEIGE?
Chris Smith, President, CEO & Founder, Efinity, Inc.
5:15 pm
End of Conference Day 1
7:00 pm
Reception and Dinner

TUESDAY, May 1
7:00 am

Breakfast

8:30 am
THE FREE SOFTWARE MOVEMENT AND ITS FUTURE
Richard Stallman, Founder, the GNU Project
9:30 am

SOFTWARE DEMOS
Dmitry Paperny, Vice President, Strategy, Viewpoint Corporation
Nicholas Maier, Chairman & CEO, Newzing

10:00 am
Break
10:30 am
WHY CAN'T MY COMPUTER PROGRAM?
Doug Lenat, President & CEO, Cycorp, Inc.
11:45 am
Lunch
1:00 pm
TO HAVE A FUTURE, YOU HAVE TO GET PAST THE PAST
Alan Kay, Vice President, Research & Development, The Walt Disney Company
2:15 pm
RE-STATEMENT AND DISCUSSION OF REVISED ENDSTATES
Dave Mason, Jim Herman, NerveWire Fellows, NerveWire, Inc.
2:45 pm
Conference Wrap-Up
Bob Lucky, TTI/Vanguard Advisory Board
3:15 pm
Close of Conference

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