AT THE CENTER
The electronic newsletter of the
Silicon Valley World Internet Center
Tuesday, May 20, 2003
The Silicon
Valley World Internet Center thanks its Sponsors for their continuing
support:
EXECUTIVE
SPONSORS
Amdocs, Inc. Cable & Wireless
Deutsche Telekom Fujitsu IBM Corporation
SAP Sun Microsystems
KNOWLEDGE
NETWORK PARTNERS
Halleck IC Growth, Inc.
Internet Wire
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HUNGARIAN TRADE AND
INVESTMENT SYMPOSIUM: THURSDAY, MAY 29, 2003
"Hungary 2003: Focus on High Tech"
8:00 - 10:00 a.m. Open to the Public. No Fee. Not held at the Center.
Held at Hewlett-Packard Auditorium, 3000 Hanover Street, Palo Alto.
Pre-registration Required. See Below for
Registration Information.
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TECHNOLOGY
BRIEFING: TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 2003
"Business and Technical Objectives for Low Cost Smart Items"
By Dr. Richard Swan, Technical Director for Auto-ID, SAP Corporate
Research
3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Reception to follow. No Fee to attend.
Open to Public. Pre-registration Required.
Register at manager@worldinternetcenter.com
with name, title and company.
More information below
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PUB
TALK: JUNE 5, 2003
"Launching into the Next Generation of Silicon
Valley"
By Mr. Bob Karr, Founder, Link Silicon Valley
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Pub Talk at 6:00 p.m.
More information below
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SUMMARY:
EXECUTIVE BRIEFING: TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2003
"Challenges and Rewards of Driving Innovation: Taking the Thought
Leadership Approach"
By Prof. Dr. Lutz Heuser, Vice President and Chief Development Architect,
SAP Corporate Research, SAP AG
Summary and Presentation link below.
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SUMMARY: CHALLENGE-THE-EXPERT:
THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2003
"IBM's Vision for the Next Generation Data
Center Enabled by Commercial Grids"
By Mr. Mark Cathcart, IBM Distinguished Engineer; Member, IBM Academy
of Technology; IBM On Demand Systems Environment Architecture and
Design, IBM Corporation
Summary Below.
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HUNGARIAN TRADE
AND INVESTMENT SYMPOSIUM: THURSDAY, MAY 29, 2003
"Hungary 2003: Focus on High Tech"
8:00 - 10:00 a.m. Open to the Public. No Fee. Not held at the Center.
Held at Hewlett-Packard Auditorium, 3000 Hanover Street, Palo Alto.
Pre-registration Required. See Below for Registration Information.
Mr. Walter Reichert, Chair of the Center's International Council
and former head of the International Business Center at Hewlett-Packard,
would like to invite the Center's community to attend a symposium
focused on Hungary's high tech industry on Thursday, May 29, 2003,
to be held at the Hewlett-Packard Auditorium in Palo Alto. Please
note the special location.
Mr. Reichert will moderate the symposium and provide introductory
and closing remarks. The program will also include a welcome address
by His Excellency Andras Simonyi, Ambassador of the Republic of
Hungary, and a keynote speech delivered by His Excellency Dr. Istvan
Csillag, Minister of Economy and Transportation of the Republic
of Hungary.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION
INFORMATION
Pre-registration is required. To register, contact:
Ms. Rita Abraham
Hungarian Consulate Trade Commission
T: 310.479.7878
E: itdlosangeles@hungariantrade.org
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TECHNOLOGY BRIEFING:
TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 2003
"Business and Technical Objectives for Low Cost Smart Items"
By Richard Swan, Ph.D. Technical Director for Auto-ID SAP Corporate
Research Center, SAP Labs, Inc., Palo Alto
3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Reception to follow. No Fee to attend.
Open to Public Register at manager@worldinternetcenter.com
with name, title, company.
Auto-ID tags are an example of Smart Items aimed at low cost and
widespread use in the economy. This presentation will tackle a range
of business and technical questions:
- What are the business objectives for the trillion dollars in
market muscle pushing the deployment of a common set of hardware
and software RFID standards throughout the supply chain?
- What has been the role of the MIT Auto-ID center?
- What are the potential capabilities of a widely deployed Auto-ID
infrastructure?
- What business processes can be addressed by Auto-ID?
- What technical capabilities must be in place to make it work?
- Can it really scale?
- What full closed-loop trials are in place?
- What are the issues in connecting Auto-ID to enterprise applications?
About the Speaker
Dr. Richard Swan founded SAP's Corporate Research Center in Palo
Alto. One of the main research projects has been the development
of an extensible infrastructure to support the wide spread deployment
of "Smart Items". This technology has been deployed in two substantial
pilots by SAP, one with Procter&Gamble in the U.S. and the other
with Metro AG in Europe. Richard is guiding the setting of SAP's
product roadmap for Auto-ID and the establishment of international
public standards with the Auto-ID Center Software ActionGroup.
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PUB TALK: JUNE 5,
2003
"Launching into the Next Generation of Silicon Valley: How to use
your Relationship Network Effectively"
By Mr. Bob Karr, Founder, Link Silicon Valley
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Pub Talk at 6:00 p.m.
Please join us for a special Pub Talk to help launch "Link Silicon
Valley." At a time when up-to-date information is crucial to business
growth and strategies, Link Silicon Valley is providing a very effective
and affordable way to access key information about local companies,
their focus, and their funding situations. Link Silicon Valley is
an online database about the people who built and funded the technology
companies of the Silicon Valley. LSV offers free access to this
information as well as premium, subscription-based services, including
customized reports. Their advanced search enables users to quickly
narrow down to a list of target companies based on any combination
of their extensive search criteria. Site visitors can purchase specific
reports of interest without being a subscriber. To access the Link
Silicon Valley site: http://linksv.com/
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Robert M. Karr, CEO and Founder, Link Silicon Valley Bob is an
active angel investor, an advisor to emerging Internet companies
and is a co-founder of the Angels Breakfast Club. Bob retired from
a 30-year career in the corporate liability insurance business where
he spent 15 years as a Partner of Dinner Levison Company and another
15 years as SVP of the Sedgwick Group, where he managed Business
Development & Client Services focused exclusively on emerging and
pre-IPO companies in the Silicon Valley. Many of Bob's emerging
clients have turned into successful IPO's.
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SUMMARY: CHALLENGE-THE-EXPERT:
THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2003
"IBM's Vision for the Next Generation Data Center Enabled by Commercial
Grids"
By Mr. Mark Cathcart, IBM Distinguished Engineer; Member, IBM Academy
of Technology; IBM On Demand Systems Environment Architecture and
Design, IBM Corporation
Grid technology has made a big impact through its application
in a small number of computing applications. The search for life
in the universe, mapping the universe, looking for a Smallpox cure,
seismic analysis, and calculating 401k values are all important
- but are niche computing applications. The next generation of Grid
technology is based on a standard open source architecture and will
have standard definitions of the services available on the Grid,
which can be accessed via Web Services. All well and good, but why
all this effort for a small set of applications?
At this session, participants learned why discovery and common
resource models, together with enterprise clustering and data center
virtualization, are likely to change computing as we know, understand,
and use it today. Think utility computing is just ASPs warmed over?
Think again! The commodity business transaction is on its way. Pay
for your computing as you need it, how you need it and most importantly,
when you need it.
At this Challenge-the-Expert, Mr. Cathcart discussed what "underware"
is and why the Open Grid Services Architecture will become a meta-OS,
delivering services far beyond the current Grid realm. Mr. Cathcart's
presentation will be available on the Center's website in the near
future.
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SUMMARY: EXECUTIVE
BRIEFING: TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2003
"Challenges and Rewards of Driving Innovation: Taking the Thought
Leadership Approach"
By Prof. Dr. Lutz Heuser, Vice President and Chief Development Architect,
SAP Corporate Research, SAP AG.
To view Dr. Heuser's presentation, visit the Center's Website.
Scroll down and click onto "May 13, 2003" to view the program information,
""Challenges and Rewards of Driving Innovation: Taking the Thought
Leadership Approach."
In a shifting economy when many enterprises lean towards tried-and-true
solutions, business progress is attained through pushing innovation
forward, even in a time of uncertainty. Dr. Lutz Heuser's Executive
Briefing addressed how to optimize and extend business processes
utilizing innovative technologies.
Dr. Heuser, Vice President and Chief Development Architect of SAP
Corporate Research, will conducted an Executive Briefing illustrating
how processes for IT innovation can be supported by business-driven
technology research. His briefing illuminated key areas of research-driven
innovation being conducted at SAP worldwide, looking at optimizing
existing business processes through, for example, Adaptive Supply
Chain Networks and Smart Vending, as well as identifying new business
processes arenas which enterprise-level applications can support,
such as Homeland Security.
As a producer of IT solutions, to become a trusted innovator you
have to identify the right technology along with the most excited
early adopters to experiment and place a first product in the market
with certainty - all in a timely fashion. Rising to this challenge
reaps great rewards: gaining momentum and market share. Dr. Heuser
addressed SAP Corporate Research's approaches to these challenges,
outlining specific areas of innovation.
As Smart Items business-enabling technologies like RFID and ad
hoc sensor networks are gaining momentum, SAP will sponsor a series
of briefings and working groups specifically designed to identify
and leverage new enterprise business opportunities across industry
sectors.
Dr. Heuser will specifically addressed SAP's Smart Vending initiative.
The ability to connect machine data sources, better known as Smart
Items, to SAP systems is becoming an important topic for SAP customers
as the number of devices with the ability to collect and distribute
data grows. SAP is embracing the evolution of Smart Items and their
information. By allowing SAP customers to incorporate data from
diverse sources, customers can optimize existing business processes
that improve the bottom line. The SAP Smart Vending initiative is
one such example. By collecting and exchanging data with vending
machines in the field, customers will be able to reduce logistics
costs while promoting sales. Together with its partners, SAP Corporate
Research is setting up a vending demo center that allows interested
parties to evaluate the ROI opportunities at a minimal risk.
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For further information on the Center's Sponsors and Knowledge
Network Partners, visit their Websites:
EXECUTIVE
SPONSORS
Amdocs, Inc. http://www.amdocs.com
Cable & Wireless http://www.cw.com
Deutsche Telekom http://www.dtag.de/english/index.htm
Fujitsu http://www.fujitsu.com
IBM Corporation http://www.ibm.com
SAP http://www.mysap.com
Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com
KNOWLEDGE
NETWORK PARTNERS
Halleck http://www.halleck.com
IC Growth, Inc. http://www.icgrowth.com
Internet Wire http://www.internetwire.com
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