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FutureMedia
February 7-8, 2002 in Pasadena, CA

WEDNESDAY, February 6
7:00 pm
Welcome Reception and Buffet Dinner (7:30)

THURSDAY, February 7 - CONFERENCE AGENDA
7:00 am

Breakfast

8:30 am
Conference Welcome
Leonard Kleinrock, TTI/Vanguard Advisory Board
8:45 am
CONFERENCE OVERVIEW
John Perry Barlow and Michael Hawley, TTI/Vanguard Advisory Board
9:00 am
THE ALL SPECIES INVENTORY
Stewart Brand, Co-founder, All Species Inventory
10:00 am
THE AUDIO SPOTLIGHT
Joseph Pompei, Researcher, MIT Media Lab
10:15 am
Break
10:45 am
NEW INITIATIVES IN IMMERSIVE TRAINING
Richard Lindheim, Executive Director, and William Swartout, Director of Technology, Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California
11:30 am
ROBOTS ON THE SILVER SCREEN AND BEYOND
Cynthia Breazeal, Principal Investigator, Robotic Presence Group, MIT Media Lab, and Stan Winston, Creature and character creator
12:15 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm
WAVEFRONT CODING™, A NEW APPROACH TO DIGITAL IMAGING
R.C. Mercure, Chairman & CEO, CDM Optics, Inc.
2:00 pm
DIGITAL MOTORS FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Rod MacGregor, President & CEO, NanoMuscle, Inc.
2:30 pm
NARRATIVE STRUCTURE - ARCHITECTURE IN FILM
Alex McDowell, Production designer, Minority Report
3:15 pm
Break
3:45 pm
THE NEW CONVERGENCE
Jon Taplin, CEO, Intertainer, Inc.
4:30 pm
THE RIGHT TO KNOW
John Perry Barlow, TTI/Vanguard Advisory Board
7:00 pm
Reception and Dinner

FRIDAY, February 8 - CONFERENCE AGENDA
7:00 am

Breakfast

8:30 am
THE LONG-TERM PRESERVATION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION
Raymond Lorie, Research Fellow, IBM Almaden Research Center
9:20 am

ACOUSTIC HOLOGRAPHY: AN IDEA WHOSE TIME IS STILL COMING
James A. Moorer, Senior Vice President, Advanced Development, Sonic Solutions

10:10 am
Break
10:45 am
LENSES THAT CHANGE FOCUS ELECTRO-ACTIVELY
Ronald Blum, Founder and President, The Egg Factory
11:15 pm
THE FUTURE OF SURROUND SOUND
Tom Holman, President, TMH Corporation and Inventor, THX Sound System
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:15 pm
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY
Jack Valenti, President & CEO, Motion Picture Association of America
2:15 pm
MIT'S OPENCOURSEWARE INITIATIVE: A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO E-EDUCATION
Steve Lerman, Director, MIT Center for Educational Computing Initiatives
3:00 pm
Conference Wrap-Up
Bob Lucky, TTI/Vanguard Advisory Board
3:30 pm
Close of Conference

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