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Rearranging the Atoms
April 23-24, 2002 in Toronto, Canada

MONDAY, April 22 - MEMBERS WORKSHOP
9:00 am
Members Workshop - "Beyond the Hype of Web Services"
Ed Yourdon, Consultant and Author
7:00 pm
Welcome Reception and Buffet Dinner (7:30)

TUESDAY, April 23 - CONFERENCE AGENDA
7:00 am

Breakfast

8:30 am
Conference Welcome
Leonard Kleinrock, TTI/Vanguard Advisory Board
8:45 am
CONFERENCE OVERVIEW
Nicholas Negroponte, TTI/Vanguard Advisory Board
9:00 am
BITS AND ATOMS
Neil Gershenfeld, Director, Center for Bits and Atoms, MIT Media Lab
10:00 am
Break
10:30 am
SMARTER THINGS
Doug Lenat, TTI/Vanguard Advisory Board and President, Cycorp
11:15 am
RFID: READY FOR PRIME TIME?
Tom Grant, Chairman, ThingMagic
12:00 am
THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL BIOLOGY
Peter J. Bentley, Honorary Research Fellow, University College London
12:45 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm
ENERGY SYSTEMS FOR PORTABLE ELECTRONICS: TECHNICAL AND COMMERCIAL CHALLENGES
Jerry Hallmark, Manager, Energy Technologies Lab, Motorola Labs
2:45 pm
THE FUTURE OF POWER
Amory Lovins, CEO Research, Rocky Mountain Institute
3:45 pm
Break
4:15 pm
IMPLANTABLE NEURAL MICRODEVICES
Jörg-Uwe Meyer, Head, Department Sensor Systems / Microsystems, Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering
7:00 pm
Reception and Dinner

WEDNESDAY, April 24 - CONFERENCE AGENDA
7:00 am

Breakfast

8:30 am
TTI/TTI/Vanguard Updates
8:40 am
REINVENTING BIOLOGY
Joe Jacobson, Leader, MIT Media Lab NanoMedia Group and Co-founder, E Ink Corp.
9:40 am

APPROACHING THE HUMAN MIND THROUGH THE GENOME
Tom Ray, Professor of Zoology, University of Oklahoma

10:40 am
Break
11:10 am
LOCATION AS THE NINTH UTILITY
Charlie Trimble, President, U.S. GPS Industry Council and Founder, Trimble Navigation
12:10 pm
HUMAN IMPLANTABLE ID CHIPS
Keith Bolton, CTO, Applied Digital Solutions, Inc.
1:00 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm
TEAMS OF EMBEDDED MICROPROCESSORS
Steven Buckley, Manager-Electrical Product Innovation, DaimlerChrysler
2:45 pm
CLOTHING AS A PORTABLE ENVIRONMENT
Lorna Ross, Lead Research Scientist, WellBeing Group, Media Lab Europe
3:30 pm
Conference Wrap-Up
Bob Lucky, TTI/Vanguard Advisory Board
4:00 pm
Close of Conference

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