A Look at the Future
Self Organizing Networks
Wireless Connection of Household devices
Not hub and spoke, but self-organized peers
Wireless connectivity (Bluetooth, 802.11)
Lighting, ventilation, motions sensors, air-conditioning ducts, sprinkler systems, data storage bricks
Grid Computing
Teragrid, an NSF Project to network supercomputers
National Center for Supercomputing Applications at Univ. of Illinois
US Department of Energy?s Argonne Laboratories near Chicago
Caltech in Pasadena
San Diego Supercomputer Center at Univ. of California
13.6 trillion floating point operations per second (teraflop)
Nanobiotech
Nano-devices tuned to detect large molecules
Human Computer Interaction
This is where the action will be
Top Labs for 1990s
Bell Communications Research
Apple Computer Advanced Technology Group
Xerox PARC
Top Labs for 2000-2010
Microsoft Research
Xerox PARC
Canegie Mellon University
Pancake Technology Rundown in Honor of DB’s pancake batter swim for charity
Napster Dumps 30 More Employees
Down to 58 employees
Third round of layoff in six months
Feud between Bertelsman CEO and John Fanning (uncle of Steven Fanning ), and Mummer Winblad, a VC firm
Online Filing for the Tardy
Security
Sharing the Airwaves
A new approach is needed
FCC Take Heed
Spread spectrum technologies rather than allocating fixed bands
Internet Fraud Complaint Center 2001 Statistics
42% Identity Theft
20% Web Auctions
15% Nigerian 419 e-mail scam
Balance Credit Card Fraud and Confidence Fraud
National ID Cards Questions to Blue Ribbon Panel
National Academy of Sciences Committee
Constitutional issues
Technical issues
Economic issues
WiFi Lite Proposal by Microsoft
Another bad idea, like WinModem
Mail Bag
Improper Program Removal — Reinstall and then remove with Add/Remove Wizard
File association brings up wrong program — Go to Windows Folder Options and reassign program association
Readers for visually impaired — One reader likes the Pronto Reader instead of Galileo Reader
Love Tech Talk MP3 Files — Thanks for all the love
Stratford News
Next Start April 22, 2002