Notes From the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
Almost every attendee brought a laptop, and thanks to the ubiquitous wifi access everyone carried their computers with them to all the sessions. Every talk had an undercurrent of quiet rustling as people typed reports, collaborated on notes using Hydra (a collaborative editing tool), or communicated via the conference irc channel.
There was one odd effect on the Q&A during sessions: it was oddly non-critical or challenging to the speakers. Part of this can attributed to so many people coming from the same communities and sharing similar attitudes, but much of the critical content seemed to go over irc instead. It's interesting that the ubiquitous online communications changed behavior at the conference. I'll put up a schedule cross-linked with an irc transcription later so it's possible to see what sessions generated the most in-room buzz..
Presentation materials for many sessions are available at the O'Reilly website. This collection of links and notes is here for convenient reference.
Tutorials (only went to AWS):
Laws and Emerging Technology
Understanding the Web Services Stack
Advanced Wireless Tutorial
Using Scenarios to Make Better IT Business Decisions
Amazon Workshop
Building Rich Internet Applications With AppleScript
Building Rich Internet Applications With Flash
Breaking the Hardware Barrier
Sessions I attended:
Technology Innovation and Collective Action, Howard Rheingold
Notes: [Boing Boing], [Phil Windley], [Kottke]
DRM in Practice: Rights, Restrictions and Reality
Notes: [Phil Windley], [Tim Appnell]
Biological Computing, Eric Bonabeau
Notes: [at this point I got tired of digging links from my notes, see section at the end of this post]
The O'Reilly Radar, Tim O'Reilly
Peer to Peer Semantic Search Engines: Building a Memex, Maciej Ceglowski
GNU Radio: Hacking the RF Spectrum With Free Software and Hardware, Matt Ettus
Under the Hood of the Internet Archive's Digital Bookmobile, Brewster Kahle
Gonzo Collaborative Mapping on the Semantic Web, Jo Walsh
The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet, Alan Kaye
Personal Interfaces, Kevin Lynch
A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy: Social Structure in Social Software, Clay Shirky
Mailing List Bots, Ben Hammersly
Upmystreet Conversations: Mapping Cyber to Space, Stefan Magdalinksi
Journalism 3.1b2, Dan Gillmor
nTAGS: Designing Augmented Name Tags to Support In-Person Networking, Rick Borovoy
From the Margins of the Writable Web, Meg Hourihan
Innovating in Open Source: A New PIM, Mitch Kapor and Andy Hertzfeld
The Game Context as a Testing Ground for Social Software, Stewart Butterfield
The Business Paths to Nanotech Futures and Transcending Moore's Law, Steve Jurvetson
The Future of Web Services: Microsoft, Felipe Carbrera
Google, Innovation, and the Web, Craig Silverstein
Nanotechnology: Bringing Digital Control to Matter, Eric Drexler
Smart Dust, Talk Tags and Roboflies, David Pescovitz
Internet 0 - Bringing IP to the Leaf Node, Raffi Krikorian
Operating Models for Stupid Networks, David Isenberg
Swarming of Unmanned Air Vehicles, Paulao Gaudiano
If You Meet Alan Turing on the Road, Kill Him!, Geoff Cohen
Physical Computing, Tom Igoe
Links: ETCon Wiki ETCon trackbacks blogging from ETCon Coverage of ETCon
Posted by Mark Monday, May 05, 2003 12:13:00 AM |
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