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***SNS*** The Smartphone Surprise
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Join us for the 8th Annual
Future in Review (FiRe) 2010 Conference
May 11-14, at Terranea, Palos Verdes
“The best technology conference
Latest additions:
“CyberWar: Today and Tomorrow,” with Joseph Menn, author, Fatal System Error;
Climate Refugees: A first look at this Sundance film, with director and creator Michael Nash (don’t forget, last year’s FiRe Film The Cove, by Louie Psihoyos, just pulled the Academy Award for Best Documentary);
“Scaling Alternative Energy”: An Opening Night talk by world expert Nathan Lewis, George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry, Caltech; and
“Sustainable Housing”: Real and proposed sustainable dwellings, with Robert Bornn, Founder, Building Circles Organization.
This year’s theme: “Emerging Platforms”: Handhelds, Smartphones, Media Players, Pads, e-Books, Netbooks, Smartbooks, and (Repairing) the Cloud.
Participants and Speakers include (but are not limited to):
Ray Ozzie, Chief Software Architect, Microsoft
Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO, NVIDIA
Paul Jacobs, CEO, Qualcomm
Steve Squyres, Principal Investigator of the Mars Exploration Rover Mission (MER) and Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University; on “Finding Life on Mars”
A New Panel: “The Business and Technology Behind Hollywood”
John Cramer, Science Fiction Author and Professor Emeritus, Physics, University of Washington; on “Quantum Time Reversal”
John Delaney, Professor of Oceanography and Jerome M. Paros Endowed Chair in Sensor Networks, and Director, Regional Scale Nodes Program, University of Washington; on building the world’s first broadband ocean-floor remote sensing network
Plus:
Eric Darmstaedter, CEO, ClearFuels Technology
Chris Hancock, CEO, AARNet
Ricardo Salinas, Chairman of the Board, Grupo Salinas
And many, many more (see “Upcoming SNS Events” for more details)
There are plenty of historic reasons to restrain one’s enthusiasm over so-called smartphones: they have been very expensive, and so, limited in appeal and sales; there are no standards to unify them in the developer community; and the industry has not even properly defined them.
That was yesterday. |
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SNS: The Smartphone Surprise