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September
14-15, 2005 in Geneva,
Switzerland |
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7:00
pm
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Welcome
Reception and Buffet Dinner |
| WEDNESDAY, September
14 - CONFERENCE |
8:00
am
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Breakfast
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9:00
am
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Conference
Welcome
Leonard Kleinrock, TTI/Vanguard Advisory Board |
9:15
am
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Conference Overview
Nicholas Negroponte, TTI/Vanguard Advisory Board |
9:45
am
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Display Futures
Mary Lou Jepsen, Founder, Jepsen Optical Engineering |
10:30
am
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Break |
11:00
am
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Immersive and Augmented
Environments
Scott Fisher, Chair, Interactive Media Division, USC School
of Cinema-Television |
11:45
am
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The Problems and
Promises of Haptics
Sile O’Modhrain, Lecturer, Sonic Arts Research Centre,
Queens University |
12:30
am
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Haptic Chameleon
Technology
Georg Michelitsch, Co-founder and CEO, CONANTE Advanced Interface
Solutions |
1:00
pm
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Lunch |
2:15
pm
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From Mind to Movement:
The Emergence of Brain Interface Technology
John Donoghue, Professor of Neuroscience, Brown University
and Founder, Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems |
3:00
pm
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The Blue Brain
Project
Henry Markram, Co-director, Brain Mind Institute, Ecole Polytechnique
Federale de Lausanne |
3:30
pm
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Break |
4:00
pm
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The Power of Persuasion
Martin Illsley, Director of Research, Accenture Technology
Labs Europe |
4:30
pm
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Spatially Direct
Interface
John Underkoffler, Science and Technology Advisor, Treadle
and Loam |
7:30
pm
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Reception
and Dinner |
| THURSDAY, September
15 - CONFERENCE |
8:00
am
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Breakfast
|
9:00
am
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TTI/Vanguard
Announcements |
9:30
am
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From Interface
to Inner Thought
Alan Kay, TTI/Vanguard Advisory Board |
10:15
am
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Revolutionizing
Spoken Language Learning in China
Pengkai Pan, CEO and Founder, Saybot
|
11:00
am
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Break |
11:30
am
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New Horizons for
Orthotic and Prosthetic Technology: Merging Body and Machine
Hugh Herr, Director, Biomechatronics Group, MIT Media Lab |
12:45
pm
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Using Robots to
Control Animals
Alexandre Colot, Project and Services Manager, K-Team, S.A. |
12:45
pm
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Lunch |
2:00
pm
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Ubiquitous 3D Interfaces
in Personal Virtual Assistants
Michael Robinson, Founder, Pool Entertainment |
2:45
pm
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CERN and Grid Computing
Wolfgang von Ruden, Department Head, CERN IT |
3:30
pm
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Conference Wrap-Up
Bob Lucky, TTI/Vanguard Advisory Board |
4:00
pm
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Close of Conference |
| FRIDAY, September
16 - FIELD TRIP |
8:30
am
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Departure for Field
Trip to CERN |
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