AT THE CENTER
The electronic newsletter of the
Silicon Valley World Internet Center
Wednesday, May 19, 2004
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INTERNATIONAL ART SHOW
AT OUR KNOWLEDGE NETWORK PARTNER: MAY 23, 2004: 12:00
p.m. - 3:00 p.m. No fee.
Further information below.
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THINK TANK SESSION: TUESDAY,
MAY 25, 2004
"CROSS-CULTURAL ISSUES FOR ENTERPRISE-LEVEL
SOFTWARE: THE CHALLENGES OF THE ASIAN MARKETS"
Invitation-only. Further information below.
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POWER PUB: THURSDAY, MAY
27, 2004
"SEARCH-BASED EMAIL: THE INTERNET'S KILLER APP MEETS THE INTERNET'S
HOTTEST TECHNOLOGY"
Pub Master: Dr. Raymie Stata, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer,
Stata Labs, Inc.
5:00 p.m.: Networking & Registration
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).
Pre-registration is highly encouraged. Registration information
below.
This Power Pub will be held in the Cyprus Room at the Crowne Plaza
Cabana Hotel, 4290 El Camino Real, Palo Alto.
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SUMMARY: EXECUTIVE BRIEFING
AND LAUNCH OF NEWEST CORPORATE SPONSOR, ARCHSTONE CONSULTING: THURSDAY,
MAY 13, 2004
"CAPTURING THE VALUE OF THE EXTENDED MANUFACTURING
MODEL Beyond the Extended Enterprise: NBT = EEM + SOA"
By Mr. Eric Schlumpf, Principal and Global Manufacturing Practice
Leader, Archstone Consulting & Corporate Sponsor, Silicon Valley
World Internet Center
Summary and links below.
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SUMMARY POWER PUB:
TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 2004
"NANO-BIO-IT CONVERGENCE: DOES NANOTECHNOLOGY
OFFER THE TRULY ULTIMATE BIO-IT INTERFACE?"
Pub Master: Mr. Brock Hinzmann, Technology Navigator & Principal
Consultant, SRI Consulting Business Intelligence
Summary and link below.
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INTERNATIONAL ART SHOW
AT OUR KNOWLEDGE NETWORK PARTNER: MAY 23, 2004
As many of you know, the World Internet Center just recently moved
its corporate offices to the Crowne Plaza Cabana Hotel. We have
had the pleasure of welcoming many members of our community to recent
Power Pubs and Executive Briefings at the Cabana. The international
nature of the Cabana Hotel's decor and clientele fit the mission
and spirit of the World Internet Center perfectly. We would now
like to invite you to the opening of an extraordinary collection
of West African art at the Cabana Hotel on Sunday, May 23, 2004,
from noon until 3 p.m. This is the Grand Opening of the Shamwari
Gallery which is providing the beautiful ambience at the Cabana
for our strategic intelligence sessions and our Pub evenings. This
opening is held in conjunction with the NFL Alumni Northern California
Chapter. A silent auction of NFL memorabilia will support many of
the charities supported by the NFL Alumni. Beyond that, it will
be a leisurely afternoon of enjoying a mesmerizing display of contemporary
stone sculptures from Zimbabwe, unique metal sculpture, fine art
paintings, hand-blown glass, and jewelry from West Africa.
There is no fee to attend. The favor a reply to the organizers
is encouraged. Please call: 650-812-0184 to RSVP.
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THINK TANK SESSION:
TUESDAY, MAY 25, 2004
"CROSS-CULTURAL ISSUES FOR ENTERPRISE-LEVEL SOFTWARE: THE CHALLENGES
OF THE ASIAN MARKETS"
Invitation-only.
The Silicon Valley World Internet Center is conducting a Think
Tank Session on May 25, 2004, to understand the issues and principles
involved in adapting and engineering enterprise-level software products
for different cultures. This invitation-only session will focus
on considerations for cross-cultural adaptation of software to Asian
markets. The specific focus will be on enterprise-level software
solutions including Employee Self Service applications (ESS), payroll,
timesheets, and other human resource functions. This session is
being sponsored by SAP Research.
The objectives of this session are:
- to understand important aspects of interface design for Asian
markets, identify any pre-existing design guidelines, and determine
hot research areas
- to identify the level of commitment among other large producers
of technology solutions to cross-cultural adaptation; and
- to identify and discuss current best case examples of successful
cross-cultural adaptation of enterprise-level software.
This is an invitation-only Think Tank Session limited to 20 participants.
If you are an expert in the cross-cultural adaptation of enterprise-level
software (including user-interface) and would like to be considered
for participation in this 4-hour, afternoon session on May 25, please
submit your name, title, company affiliation, and bio for consideration
to:
Ms. Claire Kahrobaie
Manager, Client Services
T: 650.565.8070
E: kahrobaie@worldinternetcenter.com
**Please note that
the World Internet Center is not in a position to accept all interested
participants.
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POWER PUB: THURSDAY,
MAY 27, 2004
"SEARCH-BASED EMAIL: THE INTERNET'S KILLER APP MEETS THE INTERNET'S
HOTTEST TECHNOLOGY"
Pub Master: Dr. Raymie Stata, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer,
Stata Labs, Inc.
5:00 p.m.: Networking & Registration
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).
Pre-registration is highly encouraged. Registration information
below.
This Power Pub will be held in the Cyprus Room at the Crowne Plaza
Cabana Hotel, 4290 El Camino Real, Palo Alto.
Email is still the killer app of the Internet: more than 300 million
people use email every day, tens of millions for over two hours
each day. These numbers have been increasing exponentially, with
no end in sight. But what's new in email? The Internet's hottest
technology: search.
Search-based email initiatives from Stata Labs and Google are resetting
business and consumer expectations for the email experience. The
results? Search-based email saves people time (sometimes hours per
week) and also unlocks a wealth of information buried in email archives
that is effectively inaccessible without search. Increased efficiency
and productivity aren't the only hot new issues in email -- email
security, RSS feeds, blogs, spam and privacy round out today's email
headlines.
Dr. Raymie Stata, our Pub Master for the evening, is currently
the CTO and Founder of Stata Labs. He was a search pioneer at Compaq,
DEC, and the Internet Archive. As the co-founder and creator of
Bloomba, Dr. Stata is leading the way in creating innovative new
search-based email products.
At this Power Pub, join Dr. Stata to discuss the key issues and
changes as email rapidly evolves:
- Google has gotten into the email game -- how and when will
Microsoft and Yahoo respond? How do you intend to compete with
Gmail?
- Why is search-based email so key to the desktop?
- Will anyone be able to compete with the desktop search developments
in Longhorn -- the next version of Microsoft's operating system?
ABOUT RAYMIE STATA
Having lead parallel careers in research and entrepreneurship,
Raymie Stata is a co-founder and CTO of Stata Labs, Inc. After receiving
his Ph.D. in computer science from MIT in 1996, he worked at Draper
Labs, Digital Equipment (the creator of Alta Vista), Compaq Computer,
and the Internet Archive. Dr. Stata has done research in a variety
of Internet and Java related areas, including programming methodology,
specification and verification of programs, Web and Java security,
and Java language implementation. He is currently an assistant professor
at University of California, Santa Cruz.
As an entrepreneur, Dr. Stata was a co-founder and vice president
of engineering at Deploy Solutions, a producer of enterprise HR
applications. He has been an active angel investor through Fundamental
Capital, whose portfolio companies include Silicon Spice (communications
semiconductors, acquired by Broadcom, US:BRCM, for $1.2 billion),
Traxsis, Inc. (GPS, acquired by Axiom Navigation), Echo Networks
(streaming music), and Vanu, Inc. (software radio).
ABOUT STATA LABS, INC.
Stata Labs, Inc. (http://www.statalabs.com/)
develops software products that use intelligent search to help people
effortlessly organize, manage and retrieve digital information and
content. Its flagship product, Bloomba, is a search-based email
program that addresses the key problems of email usage. Stata Labs
also sells SAproxy Pro, a critically-acclaimed spam filter that
works with all POP3 email programs and is optimized specifically
for Bloomba.
Over time, Stata Labs will develop, license and market a family
of products that organize, manage and retrieve personal digital
information using the patent-pending Stata Labs PCDB technology.
Stata Labs is a privately-held company located in San Mateo, California.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Pre-registration is highly recommended. There is a $15 fee (cash
or check only), which will be collected at the door. Please make
checks payable to Silicon Valley World Internet Center. To pre-register,
please send your name, title, company name, telephone number, and
email address to:
Ms. Claire Kahrobaie
Manager, Client Services
T: 650.565.8070
E: kahrobaie@worldinternetcenter.com
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SUMMARY: EXECUTIVE
BRIEFING AND LAUNCH OF NEWEST CORPORATE SPONSOR, ARCHSTONE CONSULTING:
THURSDAY, MAY 13, 2004
"CAPTURING THE VALUE OF THE EXTENDED MANUFACTURING MODEL Beyond
the Extended Enterprise: NBT = EEM + SOA"
By Mr. Eric Schlumpf, Principal and Global Manufacturing Practice
Leader, Archstone Consulting & Corporate Sponsor, Silicon Valley
World Internet Center
Summary and links below.
Last Thursday, May 13, 2004, the World Internet Center was proud
to launch Archstone Consulting (http://www.archstoneconsulting.com)
as its newest Corporate Sponsor. Mr. Eric Schlumpf, Principal and
Global Manufacturing Practice Leader of Archstone Consulting, presented
an in-depth view of how companies can best utilize their investment
in IT to capture the greatest value from their manufacturing model.
Mr. Schlumpf addressed the increasing challenges to managing an
extended enterprise model (EEM) and posited that service-oriented
architecture (SOA) will enable management to re-gain control of
the process layer. The continuing challenge is to design flexibility
into the system to allow for more robust uses of data across the
organization and with trading partners.
The Cypress Room at the Crowne Plaza Cabana Hotel provided a fittingly
Californian background to welcome this next-generation business
consulting firm into the Valley. The audience represented a rich
cross-section of the Silicon Valley's technology and business mosaic,
with senior representatives from SAP, HP Labs, the Office of the
CTO of Sun Microsystems, PeopleSoft, France Telecom, and many small-
and medium-sized technology companies. Suffice it to say that a
very good time was had by all during the outside reception on the
terrace at the Cabana Hotel.
Mr. Schlumpf's electronic presentation is very in-depth regarding
the key points of the Executive Briefing. The ePresentation is archived
on the Center's Website. Archstone Consulting has also provided
an Executive Summary from Mr. Schlumpf describing Extended Enterprise
Management (EEM) to possibly be "The Next Big Thing" for companies.
To view Eric Schlumpf's presentation and his Executive Summary:
- Click Here.
- Scroll down to the "May 13, 2004 Executive Briefing" and select.
- You will see both links to the presentation and Executive Summary
(both in PDF format).
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SUMMARY POWER PUB:
TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 2004
"NANO-BIO-IT CONVERGENCE: DOES NANOTECHNOLOGY OFFER THE TRULY ULTIMATE
BIO-IT INTERFACE?"
Pub Master: Mr. Brock Hinzmann, Technology Navigator & Principal
Consultant, SRI Consulting Business Intelligence
At the April 27 Power Pub, the Center welcomed 66 participants
to the Crowne Plaza Cabana hotel to discuss the issues surrounding
nano-bio-IT convergence with Pub Master Mr. Brock Hinzmann, Technology
Navigator & Principal Consultant, SRI Consulting Business Intelligence.
The main questions of the evening revolved around whether to use
nanotechnology to extend Moore's Law or to use some nano-bio approach
to create a new paradigm of information technology, and who would
fund either effort. Participants envisioned small companies being
better able to try new approaches than large IT companies because
small companies do not have large financial commitments to Moore's
Law. In addition, since no one knows which of the current research
areas will evolve into major new markets, small companies are more
likely to hit on successes than the big companies seeking guaranteed,
multi-billion-dollar opportunities in existing markets. However,
since most of truly new nanotechnology is a 10- to 15-year investment,
it will be difficult to get venture capitalists to invest in this
area. Small companies that take new, interdisciplinary approaches
to solving current problems or making current processes less costly
and/or more efficient are more likely to receive funding. Rather
than "fabs and labs," it was suggested that the investment value
of nanotechnology will be based on intellectual property.
Although "What's the Killer App?" is always the question that never
seems to get answered, the Pub participants had several ideas for
nano-bio-IT products:
- As the nano-bio-IT convergence expands (sic) and grows, an
entire community of small players, in the form of suppliers, database
and tool designers, and business integrators, will evolve. IT
should be seen as a source of innovation to provide the tools
needed for nano-biotechnology, and vice versa. Computer-aided
design (CAD) tools specialized in nano-bio-IT will be required.
- New types of control mechanisms for nano-bio-IT devices will
be required. A new type of multiplexer-demultiplexer, for transducing
from nano-scales to microscales will likely be required. As an
alternative to conventional programming, new ways of discovering
the internal structure of a lump of "nano-goo" and to program
it to have some kind of settable configurations are being researched
and may prove successful.
- The nano-bio-IT equivalent to microfluidics and a "lab-on-a-chip"
will be a programmable "lab-in-a-cell" that will be able to test
the potential impacts of other technologies on the human cell.
Nano-bio mechanisms inside the cell will be able to look for biological
impacts and send a readable signal of impacts to an output device.
- Creating a new industry out of organic IT, as opposed to inorganic,
silicon-based IT, could become very big. For example, it should
be possible to use DNA as an information storage medium or model
to allow us to store unlimited amounts of information about diseases
on a protein-based biocompatible device, encapsulating tiny machines,
which can be injected into the body to look for diseases and to
signal their presence or to eliminate them automatically.
- One of the big needs to be filled will be to design the information
management software to store, analyze, and make sense of all of
the new data that will supposedly be flowing into the nano-bio-IT
system. If we have information overload today, it will only increase
when every cell is an addressable node in the system.
To view Brock Hinzmann's presentation from the April 27, 2004
Power Pub on "Nano-Bio-IT Convergence: Does Nanotechnology Offer
the Truly Ultimate Bio-IT Interface?":
- Click Here
- Scroll down to the "*April 27, 2004 Power Pub" and select.
- You will see a link to the presentation in PDF format.
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For further information on the Center's Sponsors and Knowledge
Network Partners, visit their Websites:
CORPORATE
SPONSORS
SAP http://www.sap.com/
Archstone Consulting http://www.archstoneconsulting.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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