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AT THE CENTER
Past copies of Newsletters and Directions to the Center are available on the Web site. All programs are held at the Center unless otherwise noted. To join our community, click on this link: http://center.infopoint.com/join.php ***************************** INTERNATIONAL ART SHOW
AT OUR KNOWLEDGE NETWORK PARTNER: MAY 23, 2004: 12:00
p.m. - 3:00 p.m. No fee. ******** THINK TANK SESSION: TUESDAY,
MAY 25, 2004 ******** POWER PUB: THURSDAY, MAY
27, 2004 ******** SUMMARY: EXECUTIVE BRIEFING
AND LAUNCH OF NEWEST CORPORATE SPONSOR, ARCHSTONE CONSULTING: THURSDAY,
MAY 13, 2004 ******** SUMMARY POWER PUB:
TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 2004 **************************** 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. **************************** THINK TANK SESSION:
TUESDAY, MAY 25, 2004 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:
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 **Please note that the World Internet Center is not in a position to accept all interested participants. **************************** POWER PUB: THURSDAY,
MAY 27, 2004 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:
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 **************************** SUMMARY: EXECUTIVE
BRIEFING AND LAUNCH OF NEWEST CORPORATE SPONSOR, ARCHSTONE CONSULTING:
THURSDAY, MAY 13, 2004 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:
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TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 2004 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:
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?":
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