SESSION 1. AI GRAND CHALLENGES
McConomy Auditorium, University Center
9:00 - 10:15 am
Session Chair: James Morris

• Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University
  The Future of Information Technology

• Ed Fredkin, Radnet Inc.
  The Long Range Future of Computation: Possibilities and Limitations

• Herbert A. Simon, Carnegie Mellon University
  Robotics' Growing Role in Cognitive Science

Break Connan Room, University Center, 10:15 am

SESSION 2. SPEECH TECHNOLOGIES
McConomy Auditorium, University Center
10:30 - 11:45 am
Session Chair: Roni Rosenfeld

• James Baker, Dragon Systems, Inc.
  Speech Recognition: Where Do We Go From Here?

• Victor Lesser, University of Massachusetts
  Evolution of Hearsay-II (Blackboards) as an Architecture for
  Interpretation Problems

• Xuedong Huang, Microsoft Corporation
  Can We Handle Unrestricted Dialogs?

LUNCHEON PRESENTATION
Rangos Ballroom, University Center
11:45 - 1:00 pm
Introduction of Speaker: William Scherlis

• Guest Speaker: Robert Kahn, Corporation for National Research Initiatives The Evolution of High Speed Networking

SESSION 3. LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES
McConomy Auditorium, University Center
1:00 - 2:15 pm
Session Chair: Richard Stern

• Victor Zue, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Wreck a Nice Beach in Four Decades

• Jaime Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University
  Cybernauts and Synthetic Documents: A Glimpse Beyond the Web Page

• Wayne Ward, Carnegie Mellon University
  Conversational Animated Agents: Interface to the Electronic World

SESSION 4. COMPUTER VISION
McConomy Auditorium, University Center
2:15 - 3:30 pm
Session Chair: Chuck Thorpe

• Takeo Kanade, Carnegie Mellon University
  The 3D Dome: Digitizing a 3D Time-Varying Event into a Computer

• Katsushi Ikeuchi, University of Tokyo
  Modeling from Reality

• David McKeown, Carnegie Mellon University
  Image Processing to Image Understanding: Signal to Symbols to Visualization

Break Connan Room, University Center, 3:30 pm

SESSION 5. DIGITAL LIBRARIES
McConomy Auditorium, University Center
3:45 - 5:00 pm
Session Chair: Mary Shaw

• Howard Wactlar, Carnegie Mellon University
  Informedia Immortality-on-Demand: Searchable Video as a Form of Personal Memory

• Michael Shamos, Carnegie Mellon University
  The Universal Information Resource: all the world's knowledge on-line

• Robert H. Thibadeau, Carnegie Mellon University
  Experiments with 100 Million People

PANEL DISCUSSION
McConomy Auditorium, University Center
5:00 - 6:00 pm
Session Chair: Tom Mitchell

RECEPTION
Rangos Ballroom, University Center
6:00 - 7:00 pm

DINNER PRESENTATION
Hosted by: SEEC, Inc.
Rangos Ballroom, University Center
7:00 pm
Introduction: Duane Adams

• Guest Speaker: Michael L. Dertouzos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  What Will Be...for Techies

5 JUNE 1998

Continental Breakfast - Connan Room, University Center
8:30 am

SESSION 6. COMPUTER SYSTEMS
McConomy Auditorium, University Center
9:00 - 10:15 am
Session Chair: Dan Siewiorek

• Roberto Bisiani, University of Milan
  Parallel and Distributed Processing: Mere Routine or Exciting Future?

• George Robertson, Microsoft Corporation
  
  Leveraging Human Capabilities

• Andreas Nowatzyk, DEC Western Research Laboratories
  1 Mouse = 17,000,000,000,000,000 Bytes:
  Computational Challenges in High-Throughput Microscopy

Break Connan Room, University Center, 10:15 am

SESSION 7. ROBOTICS
McConomy Auditorium, University Center
10:30 - 11:45 am
Session Chair: Pradeep Khosla

• Paul Wright, University of California at Berkeley
  CyberCut: A Networked Manufacturing Service

• Friedrich "Fritz" Prinz, Stanford University
  Scaling Down, the Optimal Choice?

• Dean Pomerleau, Carnegie Mellon University
  Life in the Fast Lane:
  Progress on Self Driving Cars

LUNCHEON PRESENTATION
Hosted by: Carnegie Group, Inc.
11:45 - 1:15 pm
Introduction of Speaker: Angel Jordan

• Guest Speaker: Tom Murrin, Duquesne University
  World Class Manufacturing and Global Leadership