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July 21-22, 2003 in Madrid, Spain |
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| SUNDAY, July
20 - CONFERENCE |
7:30
pm
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Welcome
Reception and Buffet Dinner (8:00) |
| MONDAY, July
21 - CONFERENCE |
8:00
am
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Breakfast
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9:00
am
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Conference
Welcome
Leonard Kleinrock, TTI/Vanguard Advisory Board |
9:15
am
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Conference Overview
Mike Hawley, Alan Kay, and John Perry Barlow, TTI/Vanguard
Advisory Board |
9:30
am
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TBA
Stephen Petranek, Editor-in-Chief, Discover magazine |
10:30
am
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Break |
11:00
am
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Miniature Membrane-less
Biofuel Cells
Adam Heller, Professor of Chemical Engineering, University
of Texas, Austin |
11:40
am
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Protein-derived
Magnetic Media
Eric Mayes, CEO, Nanomagnetics Ltd. |
12:20
pm
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Artificial Muscles
and Tactile Sensing
Toribio Fernández Otero, Professor of Physical Chemistry,
Polytechnic University of Cartagena |
1:00
pm
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Lunch |
2:30
pm
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Are You
Ready for a New Sensation? Exploiting the Brain’s
Malleability to Expand Sensory Capacities
Jay Neitz, Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology
and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin |
3:15
pm
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The Discovery of
Life on Earth
David Hillis, Professor, Integrative Biology, University
of Texas, Austin |
4:00
pm
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Break |
4:30
pm
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Harnessing
Nature’s
Operating Systems
Noubar Afeyan, Senior Managing Director and CEO, Flagship
Ventures |
7:30
pm
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Reception
and Dinner |
| TUESDAY, July
22 - CONFERENCE |
8:00
am
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Breakfast
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9:00
am
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TTI/TTI/Vanguard
Updates |
9:15
am
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Biomolecular Computers
Ehud Shapiro, Professor, Computer Science and Applied Math,
Weizmann Institute |
10:00
am
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Technology and
Defense
Dawn Meyerriecks, Chief Technology Officer, Defense Information
Systems Agency (DISA)
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10:45
am
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Break |
11:15
am
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Proof-of-Life Biometrics
Richard Bennett, Tarian Technology |
12:00
pm
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Biology of the
Team
David R. Neilson, Senior Director, Global Information Solutions,
Worldwide Drug Discovery, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical
Research & Development |
12:45
pm
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Lunch |
2:00
pm
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Reverse-engineering
the Brain to Build the Computers of Tomorrow
Steven Potter, Assistant Professor, Laboratory for NeuroEngineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology |
2:45
pm
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Bio-Nano System
Technologies
Chih-Ming Ho, Director, Institute for Cell Mimetic Space
Exploration (CMISE), UCLA |
3:30
pm
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Conference Wrap-Up
Bob Lucky, TTI/Vanguard Advisory Board |
4:00
pm
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Close of Conference |
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