RECENT SPEAKERS
TTI/Vanguard’s presenters are experts in their fields which represent a multiplicity of backgrounds. They bring to sessions diverse perspectives on future technologies and their impact on business, scientific, engineering, and social disciplines.

TECHNOLOGISTS Bradley Allen, Founder and CTO, Siderean Software Rebecca Allen, Professor of Design | Media Arts, University of California, Los Angeles David Anderson, CEO, Sendmail David Baar, CTO and Founder, IDELIX Software. Charles Barnes, Chairman and CEO, Dataslide Bennett Barouch, Vice President, Engineering, iPass Geoffrey Barrows, Founder, Centeye Matthew Bate, CTO, Essentially Different Steven Bathiche, Research and Development Program Manager, Microsoft Hardware Michael Beach, Associate Technical Fellow, The Boeing Company Jay Beavers, Research Developer, Learning Systems & Technologies Group, Microsoft Research Charles Bell, Vice President, Information Technology Infrastructure, Amazon.com Walter Bender, President, Software and Content Development, One Laptop per Child Nick Bilton, Co-founder, Shifd.com, New York Times Research and Development Lab David Birch, Director, Consult Hyperion Eric Blossom, Founder, GNU Radio Daniel Bobrow, Research Fellow, Systems and Practices Laboratory, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Keith Bolton, Chief Technology Officer, Applied Digital Solutions Paul Borrill, VP and Chief Technology Officer, VERITAS Software Art Botterell, Founder, Incident.com Andrew Bradley, Founder, The Hive Group Scott Bradner, Technology Security Officer, Harvard University Office of Information Systems Daniel James Branagan, Chief Technical Officer, The Nanosteel Company Cynthia Breazeal, Principal Investigator, Robotic Presence Group, MIT Media Lab Eric Brewer, Chief Scientist, Co-founder, Inktomi Dan Bricklin, Co-creator, VisiCalc and President, Software Garden Stephen Brobst, Chief Technology Officer, Teradata Rodney Brooks, Director, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT and CTO, iRobot Stephen J. Buckley, Manager, Electrical Product Innovation, DaimlerChrysler Stanley Bull, Associate Director, Science and Technology, National Renewable Energy Lab Steve Burbeck, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Software Group Scott Burleigh, Senior Software Engineer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Michael Callahan, CEO and Co-founder, Ambient Corporation Jon Callas, CTO and CSO, PGP Corporation Kim Cameron, Architect of Identity and Access, Connected Systems Division, Microsoft Scott Cantor, Senior Systems Engineer, Office of Information Technology, Ohio State University Robert Carter, CIO, FedEx Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist, Google Justin Chapweske, Founder, Onion Networks Robin Chase, CEO, Meadow Networks Bill Cheng, Co-founder, Bistro Project Juha Christensen, CEO, Sonopia Joe Chung, Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder, Art Technology Group Peter Ciurea, CTO, Inovant David Clark, Senior Research Scientist, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Ian Clarke, CTO and Co-founder, Uprizer and Founder, Freenet Munir Cochinwala, Chief Scientist, Telcordia Technologies Fred Cohen, Principal Analyst, Burton Group Paul Cohen, Deputy Director, Intelligent Systems Division, USC-ISI Peter Corke, Research Director, Autonomous Systems Laboratory, CSIRO Mary Czerwinski, Senior Researcher and Manager, Visualization and Interaction Research Group, Microsoft Research Bruce D’Ambrosio, VP and Chief Architect, On-Demand Personalization, ATG Babak Daneshrad, Professor, Electrical Engineering, UCLA Shay David, CTO, Kaltura Brook DeLorme, CEO, Earthmate.com Emily De Rotstein, CEO, Commotion Displays Whit Diffie, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems Robert DiMatteo, Technical Director, MTPV Power Sources, C.S. Draper Labs Judith Donath, Director, Sociable Media Group, MIT Media Lab David Douglas, Vice President, Eco-Responsibility, Sun Microsystems Richard Doyle, Manager, Information Technology Program Office, JPL Riley Eller, Director, Technology/Security, CoCo Communications Carl Ellison, Security Architect, Secure Business Unit, Microsoft Per Enge, Co-Director, GPS Laboratory, Stanford University Doug Engelbart, Director, Bootstrap Institute, and Inventor of the Mouse Paul Evans, Founder, Sharedband, Ltd. Joe Ferra, Chief Wireless Office, Fidelity Web Technology Group Bran Ferren, Co-Founder, Applied Minds Richard Forno, Chief Security Advisor, Shadowlogic FozZy, Director, Hackerz Voice John Frank, Founder, MetaCarta Paul Friedrichs, Office of the Chief Information Assurance Executive, DISA Richard Gabriel, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems Louie Gasparini, Chief Technical Officer, Consumer Solutions Business Unit, RSA Clark Gellings, Vice President, Innovation, Electric Power Research Institute Jim Gemmell, Researcher, Microsoft Research Media Presence Group David Gilmour, Founder, President, and CEO, Tacit Software John Gloekler, Founder and CEO, G2 Microsystems Marc Goldburg, Chief Technology Officer, ArrayCom Mark Graff, Chief Cybersecurity Officer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Mike Grannan, Director, IP Data Services, SBC Technology Resources Paul Green, Consultant and Author Helen Greiner, Co-founder and President, iRobot R.V. Guha, Research Staff Member, IBM Research Jerry Hallmark, Manager, Energy Technologies Lab, Motorola Dick Hardt, Founder and CEO, Sxip Identity Jonathan Harris, Director, Number 27 Eric Haseltine, Associate Director of National Intelligence, Office of the Director of National Intelligence Manju Hedge, Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO, Ageia Technologies Nathaniel Heiner, Chief Knowledge Officer, U.S. Coast Guard Dewayne Hendricks, CEO, Dandin Group Hugh Herr, Director, Biomechatronics Group, MIT Media Lab Danny Hillis, Co-Chairman and Chief Technology Officer, Applied Minds Hunter Hoffman, Cognitive Psychologist, Human Interface Technology Lab, University of Washington Steven Hofmeyr, Founder and Chief Scientist, Sana Security Dave Hollander, Co-inventor, XML and CTO, Contivo Pablos Holman, President, Komposite Tom Holman, President, TMH Corporation and Inventor, THX Sound System Cynthia Hood, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology Eric Horvitz, Senior Researcher, Adaptive Systems & Interaction Group, Microsoft Research Hou Ziqiang, Chief Technology Advisor, China Netcom Andrew "bunnie" Huang, VP, Hardware, Chumby Industries Jeff Huber, VP Architecture, eBay Bernardo Huberman, Senior HP Fellow and Director, Information Dynamics Lab at HP Laboratories Martin Illsley, Director of Research, Accenture Technology Labs Europe Carl Imhoff, Engineer, Energy Operations, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Mark Ishikawa, CEO and CTO, BayTSP Collin Jackson, Researcher, Security Lab, Stanford University Stephen Jacobsen, Founder and CEO, Sarcos Mary Lou Jepsen, CTO, One Laptop per Child Richard Jessop, Entrepreneur and Inventor Jeff Jonas, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Scientist, IBM Entity Analytics Terry Jones, CEO, Fluidinfo Bill Joy, Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Sun Microsystems Brewster Kahle, Co-founder, President & CEO, Alexa Internet Innocent Kamwa, Principal Research Scientist, Hydro-Québec Research Institute Chris Kantarjiev, Principal, Dimebank Software Joseph Katz, Senior VP, R&D, Symbol Technologies Carl Kesselman, Director, USC Information Sciences Institute Center for Grid Technology David Kil, Chief Science Officer, Humana Bobby Kishore, General Manager, Knowledge Interchange Incubation Effort, Microsoft Wolf Kohn, Founder and Chief Scientist, Clearsight Systems Julia Komissarchik, Co-founder, Glenbrook Networks Hemant Kurande, CTO, Scentric Ray Kurzweil, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Kurzweil Technologies Jaron Lanier, Computer Scientist, Composer, Visual Artist, Author, and Chief Scientist, Eyematic David Lehman, SVP, Information and Technology, MITRE Tom Leighton, Co-founder, Akamai Technologies Will Leland, Chief Scientist, Internet Architecture Research Lab, Telcordia Technologies Michael Leonhardt, StorageTek Fellow, Storage Technology Elizabeth Liddy, Director, Center for Natural Language Processing, Syracuse University Dan Ling, Vice President of Research, Microsoft Johnny Long, Professional Hacker and Security Researcher, CSC Raymond Lorie, Research Fellow, IBM Almaden Research Center Amory Lovins, CEO Research, Rocky Mountain Institute Paul MacCready, Chairman, AeroVironment Tod Machover, Composer, Inventor, and Professor of Music & Media, MIT Media Lab Gregory Mack, Vice President, IT and Internetworking, Syntek Technologies Joe Mambretti, Director, International Center for Advanced Internet Research Steve Mann, Director, EyeTap Personal Imaging Lab, University of Toronto Henry Markram, Co-director, Brain Mind Institute, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Jane McGonigal, Lead Designer, 42 Entertainment John Mellis, CTO, Evolved Networks R.C. Mercure, Chairman & CEO, CDM Optics Ralph Merkle, Principal Fellow, Zyvex Jörg-Uwe Meyer, Head, Senorsystems/Microsystems Department, Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering Dawn Meyerriecks, Chief Technology Officer, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Georg Michelitsch, Co-founder and CEO, CONANTE Advanced Interface Solutions Eric Miller, President, Zepheira Michael Miller, Chief Scientist and Founder, Animetrics Mitsuko Mizushima, Chief Logistics Officer, Fritz Institute James A. Moorer, Senior Vice President, Advanced Development, Sonic Solutions David Nagel, Chief Technology Officer and President, AT&T Labs Anand Narasimhan, Co-founder and CTO, Voxiva Bill Neugent, Chief Engineer, Center for Integrated Intelligence Systems, MITRE Peter G. Neumann, Principal Scientist, SRI International Computer Science Laboratory Lucy Nowell, U.S. Government Andrew Odlyzko, Head of the Mathematics and Cryptography Research Department, AT&T Labs Nuria Oliver, Researcher, Microsoft Research Ray Ozzie, Creator of Lotus Notes & President, Groove Network Mark Pecen, Vice President Advanced Technology, Research in Motion Bruce Perens, Co-founder, Open Source Initiative Larry Peterson, Director, PlanetLab Consortium Perry Peterson, President, Pyxis Innovation Mike Phillips, CTO and Co-founder, vlingo Jeff Pollock, VP Technology, Network Inference Robert Poor, Founder, Adozu Ted S. Rappaport, Director, Wireless Networking and Communications Group, University of Texas Eric Raymond, Former President, Open Source Initiative Rich Redelfs, President and CEO, Atheros Communications Dave Reiner, Senior Technologist, EMC Jed Rice, VP, Skyhook Wireless John Robb, Vice President, Zimbra, Inc. Glenn Roberts, Chief Engineer, MITRE Corporation Lawrence Roberts, President and CEO, Caspian Networks Lori Robertson, Lab Manager, Wireless Applications Research Lab, Ericsson Research Philip Robinson, VP Engineering, Amperion Blake Ross, Creator, Firefox Ola Rossling, Software Inventor and Designer, Gapminder.com Deb Roy, Director, Cognitive Machines Group, MIT Media Laboratory Roy Russell, CTO, Zipcar Gary Rydstrom, Director of Creative Operations, Skywalker Sound David Salesin, Principal Scientist, Advanced Technology Labs, Adobe Systems Dave Schmitt, Program Manager, BBN Technologies Seth Schoen, Staff Technologist, Electronic Frontier Foundation Ben Schwegler, Vice President and Chief Scientist, Walt Disney Imagineering and Development Neil Scott, Chief Engineer, Archimedes Project, Stanford University Mark Seiden, Consultant, MSB Associates Stephen Sifferman, Executive Vice President, Operations, ArrayComm Vishal Sikka, Chief Technology Officer, SAP Craig Silverstein, Director of Technology, Google Charles Simonyi, President and CEO, Intentional Software Larry Smarr, Founding Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology Burton Smith, Technical Fellow, Microsoft John Springer, Director, Global Operations, Nike Golf Gary Starkweather, Member, Hardware Visualization Group, Microsoft Research Keith Still, Director, Crowd Dynamics Linda Stone, VP, Corporate and Industry Initiatives and Director, Virtual Worlds Group, Microsoft Dominic Strowbridge, Director, Motorola Applications Global Network Fred Stutzman, Co-founder, ClaimID Herb Sutter, Architect, Developer Division, Microsoft Alan Taylor, Founder, Kokogiak.com Jamie Taylor, Minister of Information, Metaweb Technologies David Tennenhouse, Vice President of Research, Intel Chuck Thacker, Distinguished Engineer, Emerging Technologies Group, Microsoft Research Robert Thibadeau, Chief Technologist, Seagate Research James Thomas, Chief Scientist for Information Technologies, Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Henry Tirri, Research Fellow, Nokia Research Center Tandy Trower, General Manager, Robotics Group, Microsoft Adrian Tuck, Executive Vice President, Ember John Underkoffler, Science and Technology Advisor, Treadle and Loam Alex Vasilescu, Research Scientist, New York University Andrew Viterbi, President, The Viterbi Group Wolfgang Von RÜden, Head, IT Department, CERN Jimmy Wales, Founder, Wikipedia Roy Want, Senior Principal Engineer, Intel Research, CTG, Intel Padmasree Warrior, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Motorola Kevin Warwick, Professor of Cybernetics, University of Reading Vincent Weafer, Senior Director, Security Response, Symantec Stuart Weibel, Director, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Linton Wells II, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense Matt Westervelt, Founder, SeattleWireless James Wilson, M.D., Division Head, Integrated Biodefense, Imaging Science and Information System Center, Georgetown University Medical Center Curtis Wong, Principal Researcher and Group Manager, Next Media Research Group, Microsoft Research John Woodfill, Chief Technology Officer, Tyzx John Wu, CTO, Alibaba.com Kurt Yeager, Advisor, Galvin Electricity Initiative Michael Young, Co-founder, Shifd.com, New York Times Research and Development Lab Ken Zdunek, Vice President and Director, Networks and Systems Applied Research, Motorola Philipp Zhang, Chief Scientist, HiSilicon Technologies Co. Phil Zimmerman, Author of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)

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