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NextGens Technologies
September 11-12, 2001 in Seattle, WA

MONDAY, September 10 - HUMAN INTERFACE TECHNOLOGY LAB MEMBERS ONLY FIELD TRIP AGENDA
12:30 pm
Bus departs Elliott Grand Hyatt for Human Interface Technology Lab
1:00 pm
HIT Lab Overview
Suzanne Weghorst, Art Kerr
1:30 pm

Demonstrations throughout the Lab
Magic Book (Video see-through augmented vision)
Mark Billinghurst

Augmented Groove (Virtual jam session)
Mark Fauver

Virtual Hockey (HiSpace collaboration table)
Richard May

Gumbi (Haptic CAD modeling)
Rob Blanding

FFE demos (Skin suturing simulator)
Jeff Berkley

Virtual Puget Sound (Environmental learning in VR)
Peter Oppenheimer

Snow World (Pain distraction with VR)
Hunter Hoffman

VRD (Scanned retinal display)
Ron Merryman

3:30 pm
Wrap up
4:00 pm
Bus returns to Elliott Grand Hyatt
4:45 pm
Arrive at Elliott Grand Hyatt from HITL
7:00 pm

Reception and Buffet Dinner (at 7:30 pm)


TUESDAY, September 11 - CONFERENCE AGENDA
7:00 am

Breakfast

8:30 am
Conference Welcome
Leonard Kleinrock, TTI/Vanguard Advisory Board
8:45 am
CONFERENCE OVERVIEW
Gordon Bell and Leonard Kleinrock, TTI/Vanguard Advisory Board
9:00 am
WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY: SUCCESSES AND PITFALLS
Andrew Viterbi, President, The Viterbi Group
10:00 am
Break
10:30 am
ADAPTIVE COMPUTING
Eric Horvitz, Senior Researcher, Adaptive Systems & Interaction Group, Microsoft Research
11:45 am
SOFTWARE DEMONSTRATION: ENFISH ONESPACE
THE FUTURE OF COMPUTING IS HERE - HOW DO WE HANDLE IT?

Louise Wannier, Co-founder, Chairman, & CEO, Enfish Corporation
12:30 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm
THE NEPTUNE PROJECT: "AN INTERACTIVE EARTH-OCEAN OBSERVATORY AT THE SCALE OF A TECTONIC PLATE"
John Delaney, Professor of Oceanography, University of Washington, and Program Director, NEPTUNE Project
3:30 pm
NANOTECHNOLOGY AND SELF REPLICATION
Ralph Merkle, Principal Fellow, Zyvex
3:45 pm
Break
4:15 pm
A 100TB DATABASE SYSTEM FOR UNDER $500K
Brewster Kahle, Co-founder, President & CEO, Alexa Internet
7:00 pm
Reception and Dinner

WEDNESDAY, September 12 - CONFERENCE AGENDA
7:00 am

Breakfast

8:30 am
DYNAMIC OPTICAL NETWORKING
Yoram Ofek, President and CTO of Synchrodyne Networks, Inc.
9:30 am

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FUTURES IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
Ed Lazowska, Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science, University of Washington

10:30 am
Break
11:00 am
ADAPTIVE CMOS
Chris Diorio, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
12:00 pm
FREENETWORKS
Matt Westervelt, Founder, SeattleWireless
12:45 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm
RETINAL SCANNING DISPLAYS
Richard Rutkowski, President & Chief Executive Officer, Microvision, Inc.
2:30 pm
LAYING THE FOUNDATIONS FOR THE NEXT DIGITAL REVOLUTION
A. Richard Newton, Dean, College of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
3:30 pm
Conference Wrap-Up
Bob Lucky, TTI/Vanguard Advisory Board
4:00 pm
Close of Conference

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