JIM GRAY
1998 Turing Award Winner
Senior Scientist, Microsoft Bay Area Research Center
Commodity SuperComputing and SuperStorage
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2000

JON WILLIAM TOIGO
Author, "The Holy Grail of Data Storage Management"
Founder and Director, Toigo Productions
SANs and Sensibility
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2000

JOSEPH Ja'Ja'
Director, Institute for Advance Computer Studies (UMIACS)
University of Maryland
Geospatial Data Management and Mining
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2000

WILLIAM CROSSMAN
Founder and Director, Institute for the Study of Talking Computers
CompSpeak 2050: How Talking Computers
Will Recreate an Oral Culture by 2050
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2000

JOHN GILBERT
Director, Computation and Matter Laboratory
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
Smart Matter: Frontiers in Computation
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2000

RUZENA BAJCSY
Assistant Director, National Science Foundation Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering
IT²: An Information Technology Initiative for the 21st Century
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2000

THOMAS FREY
Chief Scientist, DaVinci Institute
Immortalizer Information Technologies
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2000