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The electronic newsletter of the
Silicon Valley World Internet Center
Tuesday, September 30, 2003
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Valley World Internet Center thanks its Sponsors for their continuing
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SPONSORS
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SAP Sun Microsystems
KNOWLEDGE
NETWORK PARTNERS
Halleck IC Growth, Inc.
Market Wire Incucomm Xterprise
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POWER PUB: THURSDAY, OCTOBER
2, 2003
"WORMS AND VIRUSES: HOW SHOULD THE INTERNET
COMMUNITY FIGHT BACK?"
Pub Master: Mr. Ames Cornish, Managing Partner, Montebello Partners
5:00 p.m.: Networking
5:30 p.m.: Pub Exchange
6:30 p.m.: Networking
7:00 p.m.: Pub Closes!
Open to the Public. Fee: $15 (cash or check, payable at the door).
More information below.
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SMART ITEMS BUSINESS FORUM
(SIBF) WORKING GROUP: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2003
"BATTERY-POWERED RADIO NETWORKS FOR INDUSTRIAL
CONTROL: A TECHNOLOGICALLY VIABLE PATH…OR JUST HYPE?"
Invitation only. Further information below.
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SUMMARY: INFORMATION
SESSION: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2003
"Okinawa Information Technology Development
Project Confers with the World Internet Center and the Fiber Internet
Center"
Summary below.
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POWER PUB: THURSDAY,
OCTOBER 2, 2003
"WORMS AND VIRUSES: HOW SHOULD THE INTERNET COMMUNITY FIGHT BACK?"
Pub Master: Mr. Ames Cornish, Managing Partner, Montebello Partners
5:00 p.m.: Networking
5:30 p.m.: Pub Exchange
6:30 p.m.: Networking
7:00 p.m.: Pub Closes!
Open to the Public. Fee: $15 (cash or check, payable at the door).
In recent weeks, millions of computers have been hijacked by malicious
code. According to a recent survey, the MS Blaster worm alone infected
over 30% of companies with average damage of $475,000. Why is malicious
code causing more and more harm to our Internet? How bad will it
get? Who is behind it? What can we do about it?
Ames Cornish is a security consultant, Board Director for the
FBI-sponsored Infragard, and Founder and Co-chair of the Internet
Security special interest group. Mr. Cornish will lead a discussion
of the malicious code problem and several proposals for how to fix
it: Is it the responsibility of OS vendors? Security companies?
Law enforcement? Individual home users? ISP's? All of these groups
have been suggested, but none has stepped forward and solved the
problem. Come and discuss the technology, business dynamics, and
public policy issues that can help us fight back.
ABOUT THE "POWER PUB"
The "Power Pub" is a new version of the World Internet Center's
traditional Pub evening. In responding to requests to lengthen the
presentation and discussion time, we have evolved the "Pub Talk"
to an hour-long "Pub Exchange" which will be a highly interactive
discussion led, this month, by our expert Pub Master, Mr. Ames Cornish.
The Power Pub begins at 5:00 p.m. with networking and refreshments
(wine, beer, sushi, etc.) The Pub Exchange begins at 5:30 p.m. and
will wrap up at 6:30 p.m., allowing for an additional 30 minutes
of networking. There will be a $15 charge to attend.
ABOUT AMES CORNISH
Ames Cornish leads Montebello Partners (http://montebellopartners.com)
which he founded in 1997 to provide business strategy, Internet
security, and application development services to high-technology
businesses. Clients include Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurial
start-up companies, and venture capital firms.
Mr. Cornish was the founder, Chief Technical Officer, and President
of Vividus Corporation, which was funded by Draper Fisher Jurvetson
in 1991, and acquired by Sunburst Communications in 1997. As the
product visionary, he conceived, designed, and developed Vividus'
award-winning multimedia authoring (Cinemation), web authoring (Web
Workshop), and children's (Amazing Animation) products.
Prior to founding Vividus, Mr. Cornish's roles included managing
the Desktop Presentations marketing group at Apple Computer and
managing the product marketing team for Business Graphics Software
at Hewlett-Packard. Previously, Mr. Cornish worked in corporate
finance at Kidder, Peabody, where he assisted in initial public
offerings for technology companies and invented a debt-for-debt
swap, in which over $100,000,000 was invested.
Mr. Cornish has presented at numerous industry conferences and
appeared on national TV and radio broadcasts. He has been elected
to the board of directors for the Bay Area chapter of Infragard
(http://www.sfbay-infragard.org),
an FBI-sponsored cyber-security organization. He is a member of
the executive council of the Software Development Forum (http://sdforum.org),
Silicon Valley's leading developer organization and is the Founder
and Co-chairman of SDForum's Internet Security and Privacy special
interest group (http://sdforum.org/sigs/security).
Mr. Cornish holds bachelor's and master's degrees in theoretical
physics from Harvard University and an MBA from Stanford University.
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SMART ITEMS BUSINESS
FORUM (SIBF) WORKING GROUP: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2003
"BATTERY-POWERED RADIO NETWORKS FOR INDUSTRIAL CONTROL: A TECHNOLOGICALLY
VIABLE PATH…OR JUST HYPE?"
Invitation only. Further information below.
In the second session in a three-part series on commercial usage
of sensor nets, this Smart Items Business Forum Working Group will
focus on the viability of battery-based, low-powered radios in supporting
communication for industrial control applications within the petroleum
industry.
The academic and industrial research area of Sensor Networks covers
a wide range of technology issues. One outgrowth of this research
is commercial short-range battery-powered radios that can provide
low-bandwidth data streams across multiple nodes of an ad-hoc network.
This technology approach has an obvious contribution when conventional
communication structures are not possible, for example on battlefields
and on the surface of Mars. Some proponents of this technology have
argued that it can greatly reduce the cost of providing data connectivity
in industrial control situations. If data connectivity is substantially
cheaper, then it should open up more sensor and control applications
that can lead to overall process savings, improved reliability,
reduced emissions, and so forth. Around these new control and monitoring
applications new business processes will be needed and new enterprise-scale
applications.
Petroleum processing and distribution is an example of a high
value industry that has processing plants and pipelines spread over
large geographical areas in very harsh environments. The cost of
providing data connectivity is considered very high. This Working
Group session will focus on the technology requirements for out-door
control and monitoring capabilities in the oil industry.
The Working Group will address three major areas:
1. What are the characteristics of modern, current data communication
and industrial control technologies used in refineries and along
pipelines?
- What level of reliability is required and under what operating
conditions?
- What are the minimum and maximum temperature conditions? -
What are the design parameters for electrical noise and lightening
strikes?
- What are the constraints on operating electronic devices in
corrosive and combustible environments?
- Which technologies (e.g. dedicated copper, fiber optic, data-over-power
wiring, or radio) are successfully used for data communication
in these environments?
- What are the approximate costs and limitations of existing
methods?
- What are the regulatory requirements for electronic technology
deployed in these environments?
2. If there were a dramatic cost reduction in providing safe, reliable
data communication for petroleum industry environments, then how
would it be deployed?
- Would it simply replace existing methods in new construction
or would there be new applications with significant economic value?
- What are these potential new control and monitoring applications?
3. What developments of existing sensor net data communications
technology would be needed for deployment in oil industry environments?
- Are short range (~10M), battery-powered radios applicable for
this environment?
- What advantages and drawbacks would come from an ad hoc radio
network approach?
- What are the most promising radio technologies (e.g. Wi-Fi,
BlueTooth, 802.15.4, other)?
We expect to have several contributors from the petroleum industry
- experts in industrial controls - share their knowledge of what
is used today and what the industry needs. Working Group participants
will discuss the viability of current technologies, as well as the
benefits to the petroleum industry resulting from the deployment
of radio-based sensor nets.
Note: In order to keep the discussion focused on potential new
applications and data sources, we will exclude certain relatively
established applications and technologies. For example, applications
of transponders and geographical location and tracking technology
have been covered widely in the marketplace.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
To register for this SIBF Working Group, please submit your name,
title, telephone number, and a short bio to:
Dr. Susan J. Duggan
Chief Executive Officer
Silicon Valley World Internet Center
T: 650.462.9800
E: duggan@worldinternetcenter.com
There is no fee to attend, however, as this in an invitation-only
session limited to 18 participants, the commitment to participate
is strongly requested.
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SUMMARY: INFORMATION
SESSION: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2003
"Okinawa Information Technology Development Project Confers
with the World Internet Center and the Fiber Internet Center"
Summary below.
On Monday, September 15, the World Internet Center welcomed a group
from the "Okinawa Information Technology Development" project. Mr.
Ryo Tengan, Chief of Business Support and IT Promotion Division
of the Okinawa Industry Promotion Public Corporation, led the group
which spent several hours with Dr. Susan Duggan, the Center's CEO,
and with Mr. Les Laky, Co-founder of the Fiber Internet Center (http://www.fiberinternetcenter.com).
They explored the potential of developing a high tech region, connecting
up over 57 islands comprising Okinawa through business links, fiber
and wireless connectivity. The interplay between strategic knowledge
exchange throughout Okinawa and Japan complemented the bits and
bytes discussion around the challenge of bringing broadband connectivity
to the islands.
In a time when the Silicon Valley seems slowed by the burdens of
economic inertia, the desires of other regions around the world
wishing to develop their own business centers for innovation encouraged
and impressed the team from the World Internet Center.
For further information on contact with the Okinawa Information
Technology Development project, please contact:
Dr. Susan Duggan
Chief Executive Office
Silicon Valley World Internet Center
E: duggan@worldinternetcenter.com
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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
Market Wire http://www.marketwire.com
Incucomm http://www.incucomm.com
Xterprise http://www.xterprise.com
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