CyberInsecurity

Nextgens Technologies
December 7–8, 2010
Charlotte, North Carolina

venue
The Ballantyne
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conference overview
At this annual conference, we’ll explore a bounty of ideas and issues, concentrating on “invisible” technologies, the sociology of things, bioinspired computing, and the future of personal environments.
Will the application of machine intelligence and knowledge augment our capabilities and create a substitute for people? How will smarter human-machine interfaces adapt to our behavior over time? Are devices that know our needs and wants close to becoming reality? We’ll remove blinders that might obstruct the imaginative uptake of ideas, we’ll envision the “whys” and hows,” and we’ll strip away the beguiling mysteries of future technologies.

The influence of automation on our business lives becomes more pronounced every day. The intersection of science and technology is taking us to realms we never could have imagined. Sophisticated IT tools are driving synthetic biology. How far can these take us, and how far do we want to go? In the grand scheme of brain-machine interfaces, it’s not just about giving instructions to machines, it’s also about cajoling devices to help us reach our shared goals.

Disk capacity has grown exponentially over the past 20 years, and we’re still demanding more and more storage. When we can no longer decrease the size or cost of hard drives, what technologies will we see in our laptops and data centers?

Pretty soon, our personal “shadows” will be well integrated into our personal cloud. When computer vision systems can offer us real-time display of obscured objects, how far will we be from truly intelligent transportation systems? Will security and voice recognition be the first applications to benefit from machine hearing?

The potential of augmented reality is clear, but can such technologies provide more information than a phone equipped with a Web browser? As we create more content for the Web, accumulate and use data from social networking sites, and improve search technologies, will we be able to mash up data between Web 2.0 and Web 3.0? Emerging technologies come from multidisciplinary sources, and they often go beyond being smaller, faster, better, cheaper, and more plentiful. Computing will exist where we least expect it.

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Partial list of speakers

Dr. Fred Brooks, Author, The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
Dr. Robert Full, Director, Poly-PEDAL Laboratory, U.C. Berkeley
Dr. Donald Sadoway, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT
Mr. Peter Semmelhack, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Bug Labs
Dr. Michael Strano, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT

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