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September 27-28, 2004 in Los Angeles, California |
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7:00
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Welcome
Reception and Buffet Dinner |
| Monday, September
27 - CONFERENCE |
7:30
am
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Breakfast
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8:30
am
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Conference
Welcome
Leonard Kleinrock, TTI/Vanguard Advisory Board |
8:45
am
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Conference Overview
Leonard Kleinrock, TTI/Vanguard Advisory Board |
9:30
am
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Emergent Complexity
Danny Hillis, Co-Chairman and Chief Technology Officer, Applied
Minds, Inc. |
10:15
am
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Break |
10:45
am
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Autonomic Computing:
Building Self-Managing Systems
Alan Ganek, Vice President, Autonomic Computing, IBM |
11:30
am
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Self-Management
of Complex Legacy Systems and Systems of Systems
Gail Kaiser, Director, Programming Systems Lab, Columbia
University |
12:15
pm
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Lunch |
1:30
pm
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Intentional Technologies
- Making More Problem Information Machine Processable
Charles Simonyi, President and CEO, Intentional Software |
2:15
pm
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Tots and 'Bots:
How the Mind Manages Complexity
Paul Cohen, Professor of Computer Science, University of
Massachusetts, Amhert |
3:00
pm
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Break |
3:30
pm
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Autonomous Computing
Platforms
Richard Doyle, Manager, Information Technology Program Office,
JPL |
4:15
pm
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Complexity and
Loopholes
Eric Bonabeau, Chairman and Chief Scientific Officer, Icosystem
Corp. |
7:00
pm
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Reception
and Dinner |
| TUESDAY, September
28 - CONFERENCE |
7:30
am
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Breakfast
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8:30
am
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Feedback in Natural
and Engineering Systems
Richard Murray, Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems,
California Institute of Technology |
9:15
am
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TTI/TTI/Vanguard
Updates |
9:30
am
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Using Biological
Models as Analogies for Computing and Complexity
Steve Burbeck, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Software
Group
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10:30
am
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Break |
11:00
am
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Why Complexity
Grows
Joseph Tainter, Project Leader, Cultural Heritage Research
Project, Rocky Mountain Research Station |
11:50
am
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Information Flow
in Social Networks
Bernardo Huberman, Senior HP Fellow and Director, Information
Dynamics Lab at HP Laboratories |
12:40
pm
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Lunch |
2:00
pm
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Dynamics, Schedules,
and Complexity in the Manufacturing Supply Network
Janet Efstathiou, University Lecturer, Engineering Science,
Oxford University |
2:45
pm
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Complexity and
the Internet
David Clark, Senior Research Scientist, MIT Laboratory for
Computer Science |
3:30
pm
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Conference Wrap-Up
Leonard Kleinrock, TTI/Vanguard Advisory Board |
4:00
pm
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Close of Conference |
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