Next Gen Conference

TTI Vanguard's Next Generation Technology Conference kicks off today in Arizona. Here's some of the schedule
THURSDAY, December 4 - CONFERENCE

8:30 am Conference Welcome and Introduction
Leonard Kleinrock, Vanguard Advisory Board

8:45 am Conference Overview
Gordon Bell and Peter Cochrane, Vanguard Advisory Board

9:00 am The Million Book Digital Library Project
Raj Reddy, Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University

9:45 am Flexible Electronic Displays
Emily De Rotstein, CEO, Commotion Displays

10:45 am TensorTextures and TensorFaces: New Ways to See
Alex Vasilescu, Research Scientist, New York University

11:15 pm How to Understand 100 Years of World History in 10 Seconds
Ola Rosling, Software Inventor and Designer, Gapminder.com

11:45 pm Label-Free Intrinsic Imaging
Stuart Hassard, Head Biologist, deltaDOT, Ltd.

12:15 pm Bridging the Healthcare Information Gap: Wearable Body Monitoring Hits its Stride
Astro Teller, CEO, BodyMedia

2:00 pm The Value and Realization of Large Displays
Gary Starkweather, Member, Hardware Visualization Group, Microsoft Research

2:45 pm Human-Computer Interaction for Large Display Surfaces
Mary Czerwinski, Senior Researcher and Manager, Visualization and Interaction Research Group, Microsoft Research

3:30 pm The Future of Storage
Michael Leonhardt, StorageTek Fellow, Storage Technology Corporation

Stephen Petranek, Editor-in-Chief, Discover
7:00 pm Reception and Dinner

FRIDAY, December 5 - CONFERENCE

8:45 am Nano-Switch/Matrix Technology
Stan Williams, Senior HP Fellow and Director, Quantum Science Research, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

9:30 am Nanostructured Materials
Daniel Branagan, Chief Technical Officer, The Nanosteel Company

10:00 am The Next Generation of Global Positioning System
Per Enge, Co-Director, GPS Laboratory, Stanford University

11:00 am High Degree-of-Freedom Interaction with Graphical Models
Ravin Balakrishnan, Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto

11:30 pm Real-Time Language Translation
Robert Levin, CEO, Transclick, Inc.

12:00 pm Technologies That Rewrite The Rules
Padmasree Warrior, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Motorola, Inc.

12:45 pm Lunch

2:00 pm Automated Machine Invention Techniques
James Kowalick, Founder, Renaissance Leadership Institute

2:30pm Next Generation Space Exploration
Daniel Clancy, Director, Information Sciences Directorate, NASA Ames Research Center

3:00 pm Interactive Alert Systems
Rob Welton, Executive VP Marketing & Sales, Knowledge Vector, Inc.

3:30 pm Conference Wrap-Up
Bob Lucky, Vanguard Advisory Board

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[Disclaimer: I used to be Regional Sales Director for Vanguard. They're a great group.]