AT THE CENTER
The electronic newsletter of the
Silicon Valley World Internet Center
Tuesday, April 22, 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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AUTO-ID SALON: THURSDAY,
APRIL 24, 2003
"What are Our Greatest Technology Challenges
in This Market Space?"
5:00 p.m. Networking. 5:25 - 7:00 p.m. Salon. Open to the Public.
$15 fee at the door (cash or check). No charge to Center's Sponsors.
See Below for Registration Information.
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PUB
TALK: THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2003
"Smart Electronic Note Taking for the Fujitsu
Tablet PC"
By Mr. Chris Holmes, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships, Mindjet
LLC, In collaboration with the Center's Executive Sponsor, Fujitsu
5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Open to the Public. The Pub Talk begins at 6:00
p.m.
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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
5:15 p.m. Registration and Networking. 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Program Fee: $15 at the door (cash or check). No fee to Center sponsors.
Registration Information 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.
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SPONSOR ANNOUNCEMENT FROM
SAP CORPORATE RESEARCH
"SAP Auto-ID Infrastructure" White
Paper Available.
Summary and White Paper Link Below.
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM
OUR KNOWLEDGE NETWORK PARTNER, INCUCOMM, INC.
"Incucomm, Inc. Launches Xterprise, A Supply
Chain Execution Solution Integration Company"
See Below for Further Information.
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SUMMARY: SPECIAL PRESENTATION:
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 2003
"Are We There Yet? A Look at Technology and
Where We Expected to be by Now"
By Dr. Bob Glass, Futurist and Fellow, Silicon Valley World Internet
Center
Summary and Presentation Link Below.
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SUMMARY: PUB TALK: THURSDAY,
APRIL 3, 2003
"Sun Microsystems and the Auto-ID Center"
By Mr. Markus Weber, Systems Engineer, iForce Solution Center, Sun
Microsystems, Inc.
Summary and Presentation Link Below.
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THE PREMIERE AUTO-ID
SALON: THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2003
"What are Our Greatest Technology Challenges
in This Market Space?"
5:00 p.m. Networking. 5:25 - 7:00 p.m. Salon. Open to the Public.
$15 fee at the door (cash or check). No charge to Center's Sponsors.
See Below for Registration Information.
Please join us for our premier World Internet Salon focused on
the technology issues facing the expansion of Automated Identification
technologies throughout business and other industries. This will
be our "kick off" Salon to help delineate the key technology factors
facing the industry. Subsequent Salons will delve into specific
technological and business areas that our Valley innovators can
grapple with and solve.
We will begin the discussion with a short presentation by the
Salon Master of the evening, Mr. Dinesh Vadhia. We expect to discuss:
- ePC (electronic product code) reader software
- Massive (dynamic data) scalability
- Giving ERP applications access to this dynamic data
- Product information databases
- Security issues
WHAT IS A "SALON?"
A Salon is a gathering of innovators specifically interested and
conversant in the topic of the evening. We will begin with 25 minutes
of networking and then convene everyone for a facilitated conversation
around the theme. All are welcome. We expect a very technologically
savvy group to participate. Beverages and snacks will be served.
ABOUT DINESH VADHIA
Our first Salon will be led by Mr. Dinesh Vadhia, an entrepreneur
currently raising VC finance for a software company in the Auto-ID
market. His interest and passion for the Auto-ID technology was
flamed while at Sun Microsystems. Mr. Vadhia has been a Senior Global
Product Marketing management professional at Oracle and Sun with
a proven winning track record in the competitive enterprise software
market.
Mr. Vadhia has a background in engineering, product management,
product marketing, and project management. Originally from London,
England, he received an MSc and BSc in Applied Math from Cranfield
Institute of Technology and the University of Kent.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
To register in advance, please email your name, title, and company
name to:
Ms. Claire Kahrobaie
Manager, Client Services
T: 650.462.9800
E: kahrobaie@worldinternetcenter.com
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PUB TALK: THURSDAY,
MAY 1, 2003
"Smart Electronic Note Taking for the Fujitsu
Tablet PC"
By Mr. Chris Holmes, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships, Mindjet
LLC, In collaboration with the Center's Executive Sponsor, Fujitsu
5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Open to the Public. The Pub Talk begins at 6:00
p.m.
The Fujitsu Tablet PC promises a better way for legions of corridor
warriors to create and manage notes electronically. Current Tablet
PC note-taking applications however, provide little more than the
digital equivalent of paper, notepads or sketchpads. To take full
advantage of the power of the Fujitsu Tablet PC, business professionals
need a tool that takes meeting notes out of the personal realm and
into the world of team collaboration and decision making.
At this Pub, come see how MindManager 2002, as demonstrated with
the Fujitsu Tablet PC, represents a significant advance in electronic
note taking by providing a highly effective visualization technique
for capturing, organizing and communicating the unstructured content
typical of both ad hoc and formal meetings. Benefits include better
information sharing, more effective meetings and more productive
teams. Corridor warriors can now capture, structure, search, and
share notes among team members with far greater ease and clarity
than other Tablet PC note-taking products allow.
ABOUT CHRIS HOLMES
Chris Holmes has 25 years of experience in the computer industry
in both Europe and North America. He has held senior positions in
software development, sales, marketing, operational management,
and strategic planning. In 1989, he co-founded Visionware, a software
startup in the emerging Microsoft Windows to UNIX connectivity market.
In 1994, Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) acquired Visionware, where he
served as Vice President of Strategic Planning. At Mindjet, Mr.
Holmes is responsible for building strategic partnerships to accelerate
market awareness and customer growth of Mindjet's MindManager application.
He has also served as chairman and director on the boards of several
software businesses seeking growth in North American and European
markets.
ABOUT MINDJET, LLC
Founded in 1993, Mindjet LLC (http://www.mindjet.com)
is the leading developer of visual tools for brainstorming and planning,
with more than 280,000 customers worldwide including 60 of the Fortune
100 companies. The company has offices in San Francisco, Frankfurt,
Germany, and Birmingham, UK; a growing list of partnerships; and
a reseller network spanning Europe, the Americas and AsiaPac. Committed
to continually improving its product suite to meet the changing
needs of its customers, Mindjet is a Microsoft Certified Partner,
and a member of the Microsoft Project Solution Providers Program
and the Citrix Business Alliance. MindManager® is a Mindjet LLC
trademark. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks
of their respective owners.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
For Partnership and Corporate Issues, contact:
Mr. Chris Holmes
Vice President of Strategic Partnerships
T: 415.925.3120, ext. 138
E: chris.holmes@mindjet.com
For Product Inquiries, contact:
Mindjet Sales
T: 415.925.3120
E: sales@mindjet.com
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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
5:15 p.m. Registration and Networking. 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Program Fee: $15 at the door (cash or check). No fee to Center sponsors.
Registration Information Below.
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?
Learn 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 will discuss what "underware"
is and why the Open Grid Services Architecture will become a meta-OS,
delivering services far beyond the current Grid realm. During the
second hour, audience participants will be able to "challenge" Mr.
Cathcart during the interactive discussion.
ABOUT MARK CATHCART
Mark Cathcart is an IBM Distinguished Engineer in IBM's On Demand
Architecture and Design team. His responsibilities include the technology
strategy and direction for On Demand technology as well as significant
input to and influence on the Systems Group strategy. In prior assignments,
Mr. Cathcart has been involved with the introduction, adoption,
and strategy for Linux, XML, Java, and J2EE. He has been an open
source software proponent for over 20 years and has been at the
forefront of the open standards strategy at IBM since 1992.
ABOUT ON DEMAND
On Demand is IBM's corporate initiative encouraging business,
commercial, research, and educational organizations to innovate
new market place products and offerings that exploit just-in-time,
dynamic business decisions. The On Demand Systems Environment Architecture
and Design Team is responsible for the flexible, dynamic infrastructure
that will deliver on this promise, building on autonomic computing,
grid and Linux.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
To register, please email your name, title, and company name to:
Ms. Claire Kahrobaie
Manager, Client Services
Silicon Valley World Internet Center
E: kahrobaie@worldinternetcenter.com
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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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SPONSOR ANNOUNCEMENT
FROM SAP CORPORATE RESEARCH
"SAP Auto-ID Infrastructure"
White Paper Available. Summary and White Paper Link Below.
As Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID), wireless devices, and
enterprise assets evolve from being single, isolated objects to
connected and distributed Auto-ID systems, enterprise software will
have to become distributed systems as well. Entire enterprise software
solutions will evolve from assuming where products are and providing
delayed instructions on what to do with them, to software systems
that are told what to do by the products themselves in real-time.
This changes everything. The Center is proud to share the attached
white paper from SAP Corporate Research, "SAP Auto-ID Infrastructure,"
on how enterprises can benefit from, and prepare for, emerging Auto-ID
solutions.
To view the white paper, click here
then scroll down and click onto "April 4, 2003"
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
FROM OUR KNOWLEDGE NETWORK PARTNER, INCUCOMM, INC.
"Incucomm, Inc. Launches Xterprise, A Supply
Chain Execution Solution Integration Company"
See Below for Further Information.
We are pleased to announce that Incucomm, Inc. has launched its
latest portfolio company, Xterprise (http://www.xterprise.com),
a supply chain execution solution integration company. Many of you
already know Dean Frew, who recently spoke at the Center at the
Challenge-the-Expert program on January 29, about the future of
RFID technology in supply chain management. Mr. Frew is the Co-founder
and President of Xterprise. This new company will focus on full
solution integration services, especially around warehouse management,
transportation management, RFID and mobile enterprise solutions.
As a full-solution integration services company, Xterprise handles
business assessment, process and technology blending, solution architecture,
technology selection, and solution integration and support. The
company provides a balanced mix of existing and new technology for
small- and medium-sized companies needing to upgrade business systems
and processes affordably.
Headquartered in Richardson, Texas, Xterprise brings turn-key solutions
to its clients serving the following Supply Chain Market Segments:
- Consumer Retail
- Consumer & Enterprise Electronics
- Medical & Pharmaceutical Products
- 3rd Party Logistics Providers (in the above segments)
For further information, please contact:
Mr. Dean Frew
President
Xterprise
T: 214.505.8399
E: dfrew@xterprise.com
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SUMMARY: SPECIAL PRESENTATION:
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 2003
"Are We There Yet? A Look at Technology and Where We Expected to
be by Now"
By Dr. Bob Glass, Futurist and Fellow, Silicon Valley World Internet
Center
Summary and Presentation Link Below.
The World Internet Center gladly joined the Silicon Valley Web
Guild in hosting a very informative and entertaining talk by Dr.
Bob Glass, Fellow of the Center, last Wednesday, April 9. Dr. Bob
Glass, known in the Valley as "Dr. Bob," brought us back a decade
to a time when we didn't have cell phones or PDAs or the World Wide
Web. He shared a very clever short film, "Starfire", which he helped
create while a Futurist at Sun Microsystems. The film explored predicted
technologies supporting business and communications in the Year
2004. In those business scenarios, smart office surfaces seamlessly
scanned information right into a large, curved electronic "wall"
that made up the heroine's workspace. Telephone-like communications
with visuals linked her from her office to her family. Many of the
technologies that we take for granted today were already predicted
in this film: wireless mouses; instant access to information databases
worldwide; and digital, moving images being beamed - realtime -
around the world; among many others.
Dr. Bob wrapped up by reviewing whether we are "there" yet, that
is, have we in 2003 - 2004 achieved the predicted technological
breakthroughs he and his team at Sun saw a decade ago.
To view Dr. Bob's presentation, visit the Center's Website.
Scroll down and click onto "April 9, 2003" to view the program information,
including the link to Dr. Bob Glass' presentation.
For further information on his presentation and the "Starfire"
film, please feel free to contact:
Dr. Bob Glass
T: 415.309.7000
E: drbob@eou.com
W: www.eou.com
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SUMMARY: PUB TALK: THURSDAY,
APRIL 3, 2003
"Sun Microsystems and the Auto-ID Center"
By Mr. Markus Weber, Systems Engineer, iForce Solution Center, Sun
Microsystems, Inc.
Summary and Presentation Link Below.
The momentum around Auto-ID continued last week as the Center Pub
drew 125 attendees to hear Markus Weber of Sun's iForce Solution
Center talk about their work with the Auto-ID Center. Please see
the Center's website for Mr. Weber's presentation that highlighted
the leading role that Sun Microsystems played in the formation of
the Auto-ID Center.
To view Markus Weber's presentation, visit the Center's Website
and scroll down and click onto "April 3. 2003" to view the program
information, including a link to Mr. Weber's presentation.
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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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