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Farber and Faulhaber on The Regulatory Landscape for Telecommunications, Tuesday, April 8, 2003 at 12:30pm EDT, CMU. This unusual installment of the Verizon Foundation Distinguished Lecture series will offer each of the two experts providing a different perspective on current technologies and their possible impact on the future of telecommunications regulation. Their talks will be followed by a moderated dialogue between them, then questions and answers with the audience. More information here.

Gerald R. Faulhaber is Professor of Business and Public Policy and Management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and formerly Chief Economist at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Dave Farber is a visiting Heinz and Computer Science School Professor, and formerly Chief Technologist at the FCC.

This Verizon Foundation Distinguished Lecture is arranged by CMU Institute for the Study of Information Technology and Society (InSITeS). InSITeS is dedicated to the exploration of how society shapes and is shaped by information technology.

Ed Catmull on Creativity and Technology It takes approximately four years to make an animated feature, with most of that time being spent on up front creative development. Many aspects of this process are counter intuitive. However, the process is exciting and uses techniques that can be applied to other creative endeavors. More information here
Neal Stephenson on: Work in Progress Stephenson has been praised for having an almost prophetic vision of the future, and as a respected thinker in this area, is one of six visiting fellows at Ernst & Young's Center for Business Innovation in Cambridge Massachusetts. Stephenson admits that he runs into people who tell him there are companies in Silicon Valley who are basically throwing his novel Snow Crash on the table and saying "this is our business plan." MIT Media Lab Professor Michael Hawley says, "what Arthur C. Clarke was to a previous generation, Neal Stephenson is to ours. Neal is the kind of genius who puts one jarring idea on every page. More Information here
Dr. Shin'ichi Yuta on Ultrasonic Sensing for Mobile Robots April 3, 2003 at 4pm When we wish to get information on the environment without contact, the only way is the use of wave propagation phenomena. The possible waves to be used are the electro-magnetic wave such as radio and light, or the acoustic wave such as sound, which propagates in the material as a medium. For the mobile robots working on the ground, the use of the ultrasonic in the air, which is an acoustical wave with higher frequency than audible sound, is a good way to know the environment. The propagation velocity of the ultrasonic is only 340 meters a second in the normal air which is much slower than optical light. Since ... More information here
Triumph of the Nerds by Bob Cringely
 It happened more or less by accident; the people who made it happen were amateurs; and for the most part they still are. From his own Silicon Valley garage, author Bob Cringely puts PC bigshots and nerds on the spot, and tells their incredible true stories. Like the industry itself, the series is informative, funny and brash. Episode participants include Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ed Roberts. More info from PBS

Volume 1: Impressing Their Friends: Bob Cringely, Silicon Valley and some spectacularly successful nerds. Intel. The Altair 8800 and the Homebrew Computer Club. Enter Paul Allen and Bill Gates. The West Coast Computer Fair and hippie culture collides with nerds and hobbyists. Steve Wozniak spawns Apple II. Steve Jobs,at 25, worth $100 million. The imminent arrival of IBM. Computer nerds impressing their friends.

Volume 2: Riding the Bear: IBM's decision - "buy not build" PC technology. The tiny software company named Microsoft. Culture shock - the suits meet the nerds. IBM PC hits the American business world. Clones invade the market, and Bill Gates sells to every clone maker, Microsoft and IBM co-operate, compete, and split. IBM launches OS/2 and Microsoft comes up with Windows. Bill Gates wins again.

Volume 3: Great Artist Steal: Windows 95 - biggest global product launch ever for a 20-year-old concept. Satellite links, rock 'n' roll and Jay Leno introducing Bill Gates, the richest man in the world. The Internet. Billionaire and millionaire nerds, triumphant!

Verizon Distinguished Lecture by Eric Schmidt, CEO, Google, Inc. Google.com is widely recognized as the World Wide Web's fastest, most effecient search engine. Schmidt has been CEO of Google, Inc., since March 2001. This lecture, given at CMU to the public, is arranged by CMU Institute for the Study of Information Technology and Society (InSITeS). InSITeS is dedicated to the exploration of how society shapes and is shaped by information technology. Talk announcement.
Dave Clark on Tussle in Cyberspace: Defining Tomorrow's Internet Dave Clark presents this position paper at ACM SIGCOMM conference on 8/2002 in Pittsburgh. The co-authors of the paper are John Wroclawski (MIT), Karen R. Sollins (MIT), Robert Braden (USC). Abstract and link to the paper.
2002 Sony Legged Robot Soccer Championship (49 minutes) This is the 2002 RoboCup Sony Legged League Competition final match between the defending champion University of New South Whales (UNSW) and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). RoboCup is an international soccer competition for robots in order to provide a platform for integrated artificial intelligence and robotics research. The 2002 competition was held in Fukuoka, Japan and as such the narration is in Japanese. Read more.
SCS Distinguished Lecture Series: Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Toronto

November 7, 2002

Learning Energy-Based Models of High-Dimensional Data

National Symposium on Competitiveness and Security, October 9, 2002

CEO's from some of America's largest companies, government officials, labor leaders, academics and others will meet in Pittsburgh, Pa, October 8th-9th for an unprecedented national symposium to discuss prospects for economic growth in a new environment of heightened security costs for American companies.
Check out the Symposium agenda.

SCS Distinguished Lecture Series: The 2nd Annual Bruce Nelson Memorial Lecture

"A New Kind of Science" given by Stephen Wolfram, October 3, 2002.


Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica, author of "A New Kind of Science", and Chief Executive Officer, Wolfram Research, Inc.
Check out the Fall 2002 SCS Distinguished Lecture Series.
To view archived SIGCOMM talks on-demand, please click here .

The SIGCOMM broadcast was a volunteer service provided to the SIGCOMM community by the ESM research group, and was funded by NSF, DARPA, and Intel.

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