[Fwd: pervasive Computing 2000]

"PERVASIVE COMPUTING 2000"

January 25-26, 2000
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, Maryland

For more information and for online registration for this conference,
please see our website at
http://www.nist.gov/pc2000

"Pervasive Computing" is the strongly emerging trend toward:
     Numerous, casually accessible, often invisible computing devices
     Mobile or embedded in the environment
     Connected to an increasingly ubiquitous network structure

Failing to see and act upon this trend may be very costly to U. S.
Information Technology companies; just as it was for mainframe companies
to
ignore the emergence of personal computers; and for the PC companies to
ignore the infant World Wide Web.

The innovative firms which establish a critical mass relatively early in
the generation life cycle are usually the ones with superior returns on
investment.

For computer users, the underlying premise is compelling: simplicity of
use, ubiquitous access, minimal technical expertise, reliability and
more
intuitive interaction methods. Through intelligent use of technologies,
Pervasive Computing presents an unusual opportunity to better serve
human
needs.

TOPICS: Human-computer interaction, pico-cellular wireless, multimedia
information access, service discovery, human-centered integration and
interoperability, programming pervasive computing applications, and
innovative pervasive computing devices

FEATURED SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

Keynote Adress: 
Bill Joy
Co-Founder, Chief Scientist
Sun  Microsystems, Inc.

Janet  M. Baker, Ph.D.
Chairman 
Dragon Systems, Inc.

Michael Bianchi
President
Foveal Systems, Inc.

Dr. Chatschik Bisdikian
Research Staff Member
T. J. Watson Research Center
IBM Corp.

Greg Bollella, Ph.D.
IBM Senior Architect, Real-Time Java Expert Group
Network Computing Software Division
IBM Corp.

Jim Keane
Senior Vice President: Corporate Strategy, Research and Development
Steelcase Corp.

Frederick L. Kitson, Ph.D.
Director, Clients & Media Systems Lab
HP Labs
or Mark T. Smith, Ph.D.
Manager, Appliance & Media Systems Department
HP Labs
Hewlett-Packard Co.

Dr. Toby Lehman
Almaden Laboratory
IBM Corp.

Dr. Peter A. Lucas
President, C.E.O.
MAYA Design Group, Inc.

Ben Manny
Intel Corp. 

Dr. William (Bill) Mark
Vice President, Information and Computing Sciences
SRI International

Dr. Victor McCrary
Technical Manager - Information Storage and Interconnect Systems
NIST

David Nahamoo
Director, Human Language Technologies Group
T. J. Watson Research Center
IBM Corp.

Edward G. Newman
President, C.E.O.	
Xybernaut Corp.

Ward Page
DARPA / ISO

Robert Pascoe
President
Salutation Consortium, Inc.

Alex  (Sandy)  Pentland
Academic Head, M.I.T. Media Laboratory
Co-Director, Center for Future Health, University of Rochester

Ivan Perez-Mendez, Ph.D.
President, C.E.O.
Syvox Corporation

Carl Sassenrath
C.E.O., Founder
REBOL Technologies

Jim Waldo
Distinguished Engineer, Jini Architect
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Dr. Lynn Wilcox
Manager, Smart Media Spaces,
Fuji Xerox Palo Alto Laboratory

John Wroclawski
Research Scientist
M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science


FOR MORE INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION, VISIT
http://www.nist.gov/pc2000 or contact Bill Young at wtyoung@nist.gov,
301-975-8701.

Patricia Flanagan
patricia.flanagan@nist.gov
(301)975-4495
NIST
Bldg. 225, Room B254
Stop 8940
Gaithersburg, MD 20899

Received on Monday, 6 December 1999 15:32:54 UTC