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July 20–21, 2010 in London, England |
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7:00 pm |
Welcome Reception and Buffet Dinner (dinner at 7:30 PM) |
7:30
am
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Breakfast in the Thames Room |
8:30
am |
Conference Welcome
Len Kleinrock, TTI/Vanguard Advisory Board
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8:40
am |
Conference Overview
Nicholas Negroponte, TTI/Vanguard Advisory Board |
9:00
am |
Ultra-Large-Scale, Complex Socio-Technical Systems
Dave Cliff, Director, UK Large-Scale Complex IT Systems Initiative
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9:50
am |
Five Cities for the Future
Eric Kuhne, Founding Principal, CivicArts |
10:45
am |
Break |
11:15
am |
Nanostructures for Very Small Scale
Urs Duerig, Research Scientist, IBM Zurich
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12:00
pm |
Scale, Failure, and Networks of Interconnected Networks
Raissa D’Souza, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Davis
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12:50
pm |
Members'
Working Lunch |
2:00
pm |
Analyzing “Rare” Events in Designing Efficient Systems at Scale
Carrie Grimes Bostock, Google
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2:45
pm |
Scale and Design for Peer-to-Peer and Cloud
Peter Van Roy, Professor of Computing Science and Engineering, Université Catholique de Louvain |
3:30
pm |
Break |
4:00
pm |
Making "LIFE"
Michael Gunton, Executive Producer, BBC Natural History Unit |
4:45
pm |
Reflections
Doug Lenat and Peter Cochrane, TTI/Vanguard Advisory Board |
7:00
pm |
Reception
and Dinner |
7:30
am |
Breakfast |
8:30
am |
TTI/Vanguard Announcements
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8:50
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Distributed Data Analysis Wolfgang von Rüden, Head, CERN openlab |
9:40
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Scaling Constraints on Structure and Function of Organisms and Ecosystems
Jonathan Payne, Assistant Professor, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University |
10:30
am |
Break |
11:00
am |
The Optical Fiber Future
David Payne, Director, Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton |
11:50
pm |
Lawyers Don’t Scale
Cory Doctorow, Science Fiction Author and Co-Editor, Boing Boing |
12:50
pm |
Members'
Working Lunch |
2:00 pm |
Modernizing National Infrastructure: The Practical Issues
Brian Collins, Chief Science Advisor, Department for Transport |
2:45 pm |
Managing the Peaks
Gerry Pennell, Chief Information Officer, London Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games |
3:30
pm |
Conference Reflections
Bob Lucky, TTI/Vanguard Advisory Board |
4:00
pm |
Close of Conference |
7:00
pm |
Dinner |
Thursday, July 22
7:00
am |
Breakfast |
7:30
am |
Field Trip to Imperial College |
8:30
am |
Introduction and Overview
Sir Peter Knight, Deputy Rector (Research), Imperial College |
9:00
am |
Labs and Demos
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Centre
Virtual Tour of Hammersmith Hospital
Facility for Imaging by Light Microscopy
Laser Consortium
Business School Visualization
Photonics Group |
12:45 pm
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Lunch |
1:00 pm |
Depart for airport or return to hotel |
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