ACCELERATION STUDIES FOUNDATION'S ACCELERATING CHANGE 2004 CONFERENCE – 14 DISK SET – Stanford University, California. Comple conference set includes ASF-1301D through ASF-1333D with 2 lectures per disk. ASF-1335D • UPC 8 82917 13359 6 • 23+ hours • 14 DVD Disks • $199.95

MOBILE ROBOTS: SAVING TIME, MONEY AND LIVES, with Helen Greiner (iRobot Corporation). Helen Greiner is a Co-founder and Chairman of the Board at iRobot Corporation. Mobile robots are an emerging technology field, and iRobot Corporation of Burlington MA is leading the way. iRobot's products are not far-flung, far-off science fiction, but robots for the real world. They are practical, reliable, innovative products that answer users needs with creative engineering and design. On the consumer side, iRobot invented and sells the first successful home robot, originally priced at $199.99. The disc-shaped Roomba finds dirt and cleans it up on all kinds of household surfaces without human intervention. iRobot's Roomba™ Robotic Floorvac is already cleaning floors in more than a half-million homes. iRobot also provides the PackBot™, an unmanned ground robot in use by the United States Government inspecting caves in Afghanistan, and investigating buildings in Iraq. Currently, this tough, mobile, easy to use robot is being used on hundreds of missions a day in Iraq clearing terrorist-set bombs. Ms Greiner's talk will describe this new class of technology, how technology accelerations have affected our field, and how mobile robots will themselves catalyze accelerating change. Under Ms. Greiner's leadership, iRobot Corporation is delivering robots into the industrial, consumer, academic, and military markets. Recently, she was named the Ernst and Young New England Entrepreneurs of the Year for 2003 (with iRobot co-founder Colin Angle). She holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a M.S. in Computer Science, both from MIT. For more information visit www.irobot.com ASF-1301D • UPC 8 82917 13019 9 • 60 min • DVD Disk • $19.95

ACHIEVING ENTERPRISE AGILITY: FLEXIBILITY, INTERCONNECTIVITY, ANALYTICS, AND USABILITY IN THE MARKETPLACE, with Shai Agassi (SAP America, Inc). Shai Agassi is an Executive Board Member at SAP America, Inc. Customers of SAP process roughly 50% of the world's GDP through their systems annually. Flexibility, interconnectivity, analytics and usability are key capabilities that companies need to succeed in today's competitive marketplace. Shai Agassi will illustrate SAP's strategy for enabling the "in-time enterprise" which can rapidly adapt to market demands and increase the velocity of events throughout business networks. Agassi is responsible for SAP's overall technology strategy and execution. In this leadership position he oversees the development of the integration and application platform SAP NetWeaver, SAP xApps, packaged composite applications mySAP SRM, and Business One. Before his appointment to the SAP Executive Board in 2002, Agassi was CEO of SAP Portals and later of the combined company SAP Markets and SAP Portals. Together with the head of the Application Platform & Architecture (AP&A) group, Peter Zencke, Agassi co-leads the Suite Architecture Team, which aligns software architecture across all SAP solutions. Agassi graduated with honors from Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology, where he received a bachelor's degree in computer science. For more information visit www.sap.com ASF-1302D • UPC 8 82917 13029 8 • 46 min • DVD Disk • $19.95

EVALUATING HORIZONS: WHAT LIMITS OUR ABILITY TO COPE WITH ACCELERATING CHANGE? with David Brin. David Brin is a Physicist, Science Fiction Writer, and Author of The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?, 1999. He will be lecturing on Evaluating Horizons: What Limits Our Ability to Cope With Accelerating Change? Near-term trends—for example Moore's Law—appear to indicate that progress can accelerate. Complexity theory suggests that both cooperation and competition can have synergistic effects when participants within a system have full and rapid access to information. We can perceive such emergent properties happening whenever nature and civilization pass new thresholds. Such trends suggest that we ought to be embarking on a new era of power, intelligence and wisdom. But there are countless examples of "oughts" that never happened. The logic of SETI suggests that our cosmos "ought" to teem with ancient and advanced intelligences, filling space with educational beacons, yet no Sesame Street tutorials have been detected. Tendentious wishing may be responsible for prematurely narrowing our view of possibility horizons. Horizon Evaluation is a process for exploring what threats and opportunities may await us beyond the near term. It can suggest plausible scenarios for science fiction stories. It can also suggest ways to minimize threats and maximize opportunities. It may be particularly relevant for determining where to make investments. Our civilization has already developed techniques that work well at exploring some sectors of the Possibility Horizon. For more information visit www.davidbrin.com ASF-1303D • UPC 8 82917 13039 7 • 45 min • DVD Disk • $19.95

SERVICE SCIENCE: AN EMERGING MULTIDISCIPLINE TO ACCELERATE INNOVATION, with Jim Spohrer (IBM Almaden). Jim Spohrer is the Director of Almaden Services Research at IBM Almaden. This talk first defines what is meant by the coevolution of technology and business innovations, and then relates this type of coevolution to waves of changing work practices now rippling through our workforce. Spohrer then summarizes diverse perspectives on this topic expressed at the Coevolution Symposium (http://almaden.ibm.com/coevolution). A proposed collaborative research agenda on coevolution that links academic and business institutions is outlined around the emergence of a new multidiscipline: service science. After defining what services are, the astounding growth of the service economy in the US and around the world is considered. Next, the response of universities to the demand from industry for more highly skilled service practitioners, managers, and scientists is reviewed. Finally, a vision of the future of the service economy is presented, and the critical role service science might play in making that vision a reality. Jim Spohrer is the Director of Almaden Services Research at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA. IBM Global Services (IGS) is a people-intensive, information-intensive business of over 170,000 professionals world-wide, accounting for almost half of IBM's yearly revenues, and innovation for IGS is the focus of the Almaden Services Research group. Human sciences, On-Demand Innovation Services (ODIS), deep industry knowledge of future trends, and operations technology are areas of active exploration. For more information visit www.almaden.ibm.com ASF-1304D • UPC 8 82917 13049 6 • 44 min • DVD Disk • $19.95

THE FUTURE OF WIRELESS NETWORKING, with Gee Rittenhouse (Lucent Technologies). Gee Rittenhouse is the Vice President of Wireless Research at Lucent Technologies, Inc. The wireless industry is undergoing a transition. We see the evolution from cellular 2G to 3G standards, the migration from circuit to packet applications, and the procession of voice to data. We also see the industry incorporating new wireless access technologies such as WiFi and WiMAX. All of this is occurring in a market place where voice subscriber penetration levels in many parts of the world are saturating and there is incredible pressure to reduce network capital and operating costs. These conditions present significant technology challenges to further increase network capacity, improve network operating efficiency, and the air-interface spectral efficiency. In this talk Rittenhouse presents several technologies that address these issues and the future applications that will drive this traffic growth. Dr. George ("Gee") Rittenhouse is Vice President of Wireless Research for Lucent Technologies’ Bell Labs. Rittenhouse joined Bell Labs as a member of technical staff in 1993 where he developed a high-speed 0.1 um NMOS process for optical networking. He later joined the Wireless Research Laboratory where his research focused on RF front-end radio architectures and cellular system engineering. In 2000 he was promoted to Director of the Wireless Technology Research Department where he led several projects related to Multiple Input/Multiple Output (MIMO) system development, network optimization, wireless IP networks, and fourth generation wireless. For more information visit www.bell-labs.com ASF-1305D • UPC 8 82917 13059 5 • 39 min • DVD Disk • $14.95

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE NAVIGATION AND THE DARPA GRAND DESERT CHALLENGE, with Bruce Hall (Digital Audio Drive). Bruce Hall is in charge of Business Development for Digital Auto Drive. Team DAD (Digital Auto Drive) is known to all who observed the first DARPA Grand Challenge event (GC I) the competition for autonomous vehicles operating in desert terrain from California to Nevada in March of 2004. Team DAD completed the QID course 8 times, was awarded the fourth pole position, and finished third, traveling 6.0 miles before being paused by DARPA, then becoming hung up on a rock. Team DAD was one of the true innovators at Grand Challenge I. By employing a unique high-speed stereo-vision system and exceptionally smooth servo control, Team DAD’s technology impressed both the press and DARPA. This presentation recounts Team DAD’s experience at the event, describes the technology used, and their plans for the next GC event, scheduled for October 2005. For more information visit www.digitalautodrive.com ASF-1306D • UPC 8 82917 13069 4 • 47 min • DVD Disk • $19.95

PERVASIVE COMPUTING PANEL PRESENTATIONS: ADVANCES IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, with Dana Blankenhorn (writer and consultant), Joachim Schaper (SAP Research Labs) and Andreas Olligschlaeger (TruNorth Data Systems). DANA BLANKENHORN is a Technology Business Journalist, Consultant, and Author of The Blankenhorn Effect: How to Put Moore's Law to Work for You, 2002. The title of his lecture is The World of 'Always On'. He'll discuss what it will take to get us to the world of 'Always On', 24/7 connectivity, broadband, wireless, and the secure and scalable standards that will allow the next level of social opportunity and business productivity. Compelling new business models will emerge in this transition. For more information visit www.corante.com/mooreslore/. JOACHIM SCHAPER is the Vice President Americas at SAP Research Labs. His lecture is titled Smart Items in the Enterprise. SAP Labs is using smart technologies to provide a holistic service-oriented architecture for the seamless integration of real-world data and events with enterprise software. For more information visit www.SAP.com ANDREAS OLLIGSCHLAEGER is the President of TruNorth Data Systems. The title of his lecture is Advanced IT and Security Systems in Law Enforcement. The use of information technology in law enforcement has traditionally lagged behind private industry and increasingly even consumers. This talk focuses on the current state of the art in law enforcement technology as well as new technologies in development. Central to the successful adoption and use of these new technologies is the resolution of privacy concerns by the general public. For more information visit www.trunorthsystems.com ASF-1307D • UPC 8 82917 13079 3 • 43 min • DVD Disk • $19.95

INNOVATION MANAGERS PANEL PRESENTATIONS: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, NANOTECH AND VENTURE CAPITAL, with Cynthia Breazeale (Intel), Steve Jurvetson (DFJ) and Christine Peterson (Foresight Institute). CYNTHIA BREAZEALE is an IT Innovation Strategic Program Manager at Intel. The title of her lecture is Innovation Through IT: Enabling Systemic Innovation. The Intel IT division chartered a small organization to work outside of the traditional roles and responsibilities and empowered them to discover new business value through innovation. For more information visit www.Intel.com/research/ STEVE JURVETSON is the Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. One of Silicon Valley's leading lights in innovation funding, Jurvetson will discuss DFJ's general approach to the challenge of funding for technology and business innovation. The title of his lecture is Discovering a Renaissance in Innovation. For more information visit www.drapervc.com CHRISTINE PETERSON is a Co-Founder and Vice President of the Foresight Institute and Co-Author, Leaping the Abyss: Putting Group Genius to Work, 1997. The title of her lecture is Championing Innovation in Nanotechnology: Lessons Learned. Our task at Foresight is to help maximize progress toward and minimize potential problems coming from humanity's ever-increasing control of the structure of matter, down to the level of individual atoms. For more information visit www.foresight.org ASF-1308D • UPC 8 82917 13089 2 • 53 min • DVD Disk • $19.95

THE COST AND BENEFIT OF TRANSPARENCY (DEBATE): HOW FAR, HOW FAST, HOW FAIR? David Brin vs. Brad Templeton, moderator Steve Jurvetson. DAVID BRIN is a Physicist, a Science Fiction Writer, and the Author of The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?, 1999. As a scientist, Brin was a fellow at the California Space Institute. More recently, he has been a research affiliate at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and participated in interdisciplinary activities at the UCLA Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life. For more information visit www.davidbrin.com BRAD TEMPLETON is the Chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He asks: can all-pervasive surveillance be avoided? What are the dangers if we don't avoid it? What are the things that always go wrong? How closely tied are privacy and freedom? Can we watch the watchers without them watching us? Author of a dozen microcomputer software projects, he has been active in the computer network community since 1979, participated in the building and growth of USENET and in 1987 he founded and edited rec.humor.funny, the most widely read computerized conference on that network. Brad is chairman of the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the leading civil rights advocacy group for cyberspace. For more information visit www.Templetons.com Moderator STEVE JURVETSON, one of Silicon Valley's leading venture capitalists and innovation experts, is the Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. For more information visit www.drapervc.com ASF-1310D • UPC 8 82917 13109 7 • 52 min • DVD Disk • $19.95

LIVING THE DREAM: BUSINESS COMMUNITY AND INNOVATION AT THE DAWN OF DIGITAL WORLDS, with Cory Ondrejka (Linden Lab). Cory Ondrejka is the Vice President of Product Development at Linden Lab, creators of Second Life. Digital worlds are persistent destinations for fun, productivity, learning, and adventure. Like all frontiers, entrepreneurs are in these worlds, generating real-world profits. Today's digital worlds face important decisions around whether, and how, to embrace these business activities. As their populations grow, digital worlds are drawing from all walks of life. People from around the globe are discovering online worlds where the only limit is human creativity. People, ideas and cultures are interacting in ways never before possible. Sustained economic growth relies on innovation. Historically, innovation has been a function of transportation and communication costs, property rights, belief structures, and capital markets. Digital worlds optimize these factors in ways the real world cannot, allowing significantly higher per capita growth than any terrestrial nation. Over the next decade, visionary entrepreneurs will emerge from the digital melting pot of distributed and connected populations. Innovation and growth will allow digital worlds to capture an increasing share of the global economy. They will soon be in direct economic competition with real-world nations. For more information visit www.lindenlab.com and www.secondlife.com ASF-1311D • UPC 8 82917 13119 6 • 45 min • DVD Disk • $19.95

MY LIFE BITS: THE MEMEX VISION AND SOME IMPLICATIONS OF STORING EVERYTHING PERSONAL, with Gordon Bell (Microsoft BARC). Gordon Bell is the Project Director of MyLifeBits at Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center (BARC). Within five years, our personal computers will be able to store significant portions of everything we write, hear, and see for sharing and access after the fact. Vannevar Bush outlined such a system, the Memex, in a famous 1945 article. Since 2000, Bell and associates have been working on MyLifeBits (www.MyLifeBits.com) a project to hold cyberizable items from both personal and professional life including articles, books, email and written correspondence, photos, telephone calls, video files, web pages visited. The project is also capable of capturing 1,000 images per day of ambient surroundings, and samples of psychological data through wearable devices (e.g. the SenseCam from Microsoft’s Cambridge Lab, and BodyMedia www.BodyMedia.com). MyLifeBits is currently focused on retrieval including the automatic addition of meta-data (e.g. document type identification, high level knowledge). For more information visit www.mylifebits.com ASF-1313D • UPC 8 82917 13139 4 • 46 min • DVD Disk • $19.95

SIMULATIONS AND THE FUTURE OF LEARNING, with Clark Aldrich (SimuLearn). Clark Aldrich is a Co-Founder of SimuLearn, Lead Designer of Virtual Learner and Author of Simulations and the Future of Learning, 2003. Six criteria are emerging as critical not just to simulations but to all successful educational experiences. Three are focused on content, and three on delivery elements. A critical property of successful simulations is that they help us understand all educational experiences. Clark Aldrich recently lead the international team that created SimuLearn's Virtual Leader, the first workforce training game to follow the development cycle of a modern computer game. Virtual Leader has been featured on CNNfn, on CNet, in The New York Times, and in U.S. News and World Report, has been sold to some of the largest enterprises in the United States, and is currently being translated into other languages. SimuLearn became an Eduventures 100 company in 2003. Aldrich speaks, writes, and does consulting work on e-learning issues. He authors the popular monthly "Industry Watch" column for Training magazine, and Jossey-Bass published his book Simulations and the Future of Learning, which outlines a new philosophy of immersive e-learning, in September 2003. Aldrich earned a bachelor's degree in artificial intelligence and cognitive science from Brown University. For more information visit www.simulearn.net ASF-1314D • UPC 8 82917 13149 3 • 53 min • DVD Disk • $19.95

WE, THE MEDIA: JOURNALISM BY AND FOR THE MEDIA, with Dan Gillmor (San Jose Mercury News). Dan Gillmor is a Business and Technology Columnist with the San Jose Mercury News as well as being the author of We, the Media: Journalism By and For the People, 2004. Grassroots journalists are dismantling Big Media's monopoly on the news, changing it from lecture to conversation. Dan Gillmor will discuss the importance of this emerging phenomenon, a deep shift in how we make and consume the news. We the Media is essential reading for all participants in the news cycle: Consumers learn how they can become producers of the news through web journals (weblogs or blogs), Internet chat groups, email, and cell phones. Politicians, business executives, celebrities learn how the top-down controlled world of Big Media has been segmented and undermined by the Internet Age. Newsmakers are learning how to successfully play by the new rules and shift from control to engagement. Journalists discover that the new grassroots journalism presents opportunity as well as challenge to their profession. One of the first mainstream journalists to have a blog, Gillmor says, "My readers know more than I do, and that's a good thing." He makes the case to his colleagues that, in the face of a plethora of Internet-fueled news vehicles, they must change or become irrelevant. We the Media is a book about people. For more information visit weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/ ASF-1315D • UPC 8 82917 13159 2 • 52 min • DVD Disk • $19.95

DISTANCE INFRASTRUCTURE PANEL PRESENTATIONS: BROADBAND, VIDEOCONFERENCING AND TELE-PRESENCE, with Milton Chen (VSee Lab), Jeremy Bailenson (Stanford University) and Dewayne Hendricks (Dandin). MILTON CHEN is the Chief Technical Officer of VSee Lab. The title of his lecture is Visual Communication and Collaboration Software for Afghanistan. He will present VSee, a videoconferencing platform designed for austere environments. VSee is unique in that it allows communication during emergency response when cell phone, telephone and the Internet are not available. JEREMY BAILENSON is Director of the Virtual Human Interaction Lab as well as an Assistant Professor at Stanford University. The title of his lecture is Collaborative Virtual Environments and Transformed Social Interaction. Over time, our mode of remote communication has evolved from written letters to telephones, email, internet chat rooms, and videoconferences. Implications for communications systems, marketing strategies, and behavioral science research will be discussed. DEWAYNE HENDRICKS is a Wireless Activist, CEO of Dandin Group and Director of the Wireless Task Force, GBOB Initiative. The title of his lecture is One Gigabit or Bust™ Initiative - A Broadband Vision for California. It has been generally accepted that the United States has fallen behind other industrialized countries with regards to the adoption of broadband services. Recent estimates show penetration rates of only 35%, comparing poorly to countries such as South Korea, which has adoption rates exceeding 95%, with far greater average bandwidth rates delivered at much lower costs. For more information visit www.warpspeed.com ASF-1316D • UPC 8 82917 13169 1 • 53 min • DVD Disk • $19.95

VIRTUAL COMMUNITY AND EDUCATION PANEL PRESENTATIONS: LIVING AND LEARNING IN DIGITAL WORLDS, with Nova Barlow (Themis Group), Robin Harper (Linden Lab). NOVA BARLOW is an Online Community Developer with the Themis Group. The title of her lecture is The Art of Community Management. Community management is the critical success factor in determining whether an online game slips into oblivion or grows into a successful, long-lived service. This presentation will touch upon how community management done right is really a team effort. For more information visit www.themis-group.com ROBIN HARPER is the Senior VP of Linden Lab, creators of Second Life. The title of her lecture is Real Learning in Digital Worlds. What does it mean to try to teach in a digital world? The simulation aspects of digital worlds are enticing. Instant focus groups, real-time collaboration in a physically realistic environment, the elimination of distance, and in a world like Second Life, the ability to work together creatively, all hold tremendous appeal for teachers and students alike. How are people taking advantage of these opportunities? Robin Harper joined Linden Lab in 2002, bringing extensive experience in consumer marketing of innovative software. Since joining she has been responsible for all marketing activities, and more recently has added responsibility for community development and growth. For more information visit www.lindenlab.com and www.secondlife.com ASF-1318D • UPC 8 82917 13189 9 • 45 min • DVD Disk • $19.95

SOFTWARE SIMULATION, TECHNOLOGICAL AGENTS AND ACCELERATING CHANGE: PERSONALITY CAPTURE AND LINGUISTIC USER INTERFACE, with John Smart (ASF). One of the most important accelerating transitions occurring today is the emergence of the Linguistic User Interface or LUI. Primitive LUIs exist today in interfaces like Google, but will become dramatically more powerful over the next few decades. What will Windows and the Google Browser of 2015 look like? It seems clear that these will include early software simulations of human beings as part of the interface. Human factors experience suggests many of us will prefer to relate to virtual human beings who display body language responses, as such communication is more efficient than speaking to a disembodied machine. Increasingly, these LUI-equipped virtual avatars will also model and display human emotion, intentionality, and body language, yet probably with a speed and consistency that no biological human being can match. As our favorite digital personal interface (our "Digital Me") gains more capacity, they will carry an ever more valuable record of all the past communication we have had with them, including our preferences ("personality capture"), and increasingly become our professional representatives, coaches, managers, and extended memory for important events. How these developments may impact our political, economic, and social landscapes, as well as our definition of self, will be briefly discussed. John Smart is a developmental systems theorist who studies computational autonomy and the dynamics of change. For more information visit www.accelerating.org and www.singularitywatch.com ASF-1320D • UPC 8 82917 13209 4 • 77 min • DVD Disk • $19.95