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

RISE OF THE VIRTUAL-TO-REAL LABOR FORCE: FIVE FREE IDEAS – FROM UNDERWEAR TO ARCHITECTURE, with Jerry Paffendorf (ASF). Jerry Paffendorf is a Director of the Institute for the Study of Accelerating Change. People are creating content of real-world value inside of massively multi- player online environments. In many cases these virtual goods are only useful within the context of the virtual world they come from. But something of much wider significance is also beginning to happen: items first prototyped in virtual worlds are being manufactured in the real world, and items manufactured in the real world are being reconstructed in and sold through the virtual world. This presentation will quickly introduce some pros and cons of prototyping in massively multi-user versus stand-alone software environments, give examples of virtual world prototyping thus far, examine some emerging technologies that will facilitate this virtual-to-real exchange, and suggest five business ideas dying to be worked on today. Paffendorf has an undergraduate degree in Fine Arts (video and mixed-media installation) from Montclair State University in New Jersey, and an M.S. in Studies of the Future from the University of Houston-Clear Lake. His recent concentration has been in the study of collaborative virtual environments and massively multi-player online games that interact with the real world–a subject he's presented on at four major conferences in 2004. For more information visit www.accelerating.org ASF-1321D • UPC 8 82917 13219 3 • 34 min • DVD Disk • $14.95

SCULPTING POSSIBILITY SPACE: GAMING, SIMULATIONS AND LANDSCAPES IN THE VIRTUAL WORLD, with Will Wright (Electronic Arts / Maxis). Will Wright is the Founder of Maxis; Creator of Sim City and The Sims. Games and simulations allow us to experience hypothetical situations in fun and intuitive ways. From the designers perspective we need to architect these "possibility landscapes" which players will later explore. Wright discusses some of the informal methods, concepts and tools that he uses to approach this design task. Will Wright, Maxis’ Chief Designer, co-founded Maxis with Jeff Braun in 1987. He released his first game SimCity: The City Simulator in 1989, an instant hit that has won 24 domestic and international awards. Sim City brought complex, realistic simulations to desktop PCs, a capability previously only available to military, scientists and academicians. Using an easy graphical interface, Sim City opened the world of simulations to consumers. SimCity 2000, SimCity 3000, SimCity 3000 Unlimited, and SimCity 4 Deluxe have continued the tradition. SimEarth, SimAnt, and other games have explored other facets of the natural world. His social simulation game, The Sims, was released in February of 2000. With over 9 million copies worldwide, 7 expansion packs, and numerous "Game of The Year" accolades, The Sims has become the best-selling PC game of all time. Wright has become one of the most successful designers of interactive entertainment in the world. In 1999 he was included in Entertainment Weekly’s "It List" of "the 100 most creative people in entertainment" as well as Time Digital’s "Digital 50", a listing of "the most important people shaping technology today." For more information visit www.maxis.com and www.ea.com ASF-1322D • UPC 8 82917 13229 2 • 60 min • DVD Disk • $19.95

REAL MONEY IN VIRTUAL ECONOMIES (DEBATE): THE FUTURE OF USER-CREATED CONTENT, with Jamie Hale (Gaming Open Market), Steve Salyer (IGE), Brian Green (NDS) and Daniel James (Three Rings), moderator Cory Ondrejka (Linden Lab). Virtual worlds are becoming real world economic systems as their currencies are exchangeable through secondary market sellers like IGE and Gaming Open Market. Some innovative persistent worlds, like Linden Lab's Second Life, give users copyright over the content they create. JAMIE HALE is president of Gaming Open Market Corp., a Canadian company that has built the world's first foreign exchange website for massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) currencies. For more information visit www.gamingopenmarket.com STEVE SALYER is President of Internet Gaming Entertainment (IGE) a leading services provider to the MMOG community. For more information visit www.ige.com BRIAN GREEN is a Co-Founder of Near Death Studios. Brian has been an avid gamer for years, and has gaining degrees in both Computer Science and Spanish Literature. For more visit www.neardeathstudios.com DANIEL JAMES is the CEO of Three Rings and the Lead Designer of Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates. Three Rings is an independent developer of online games based in San Francisco. Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates is a skill-based persistent world based on casual puzzle games. For more information visit www.threerings.net Moderator CORY ONDREJKA is Vice President of Product Development at Linden Lab, creators of one most rapidly growing online persistent worlds, Second Life. For more visit www.lindenlab.com and www.secondlife.com ASF-1323D • UPC 8 82917 13239 1 • 48 min • DVD Disk • $19.95

REALITY GAMES: THE NEXT REVOLUTION, with Keith Halper (Kuma Reality Games). [Note: Due to a technical problem the first 12 minutes of this presentation was not recorded.] Keith Halper is the CEO and Co-Founder of Kuma Reality Games. Kuma Reality Games has gathered tremendous attention with Kuma\War, an innovative PC game delivering accurate re-creations of actual events in Operation Iraqi Freedom just weeks after they occur—and set off a storm of controversy. But behind its provocative subject matter is a challenge to traditional game publishers. These 'Episodic Games' are building new content demand, new sources of revenue, and competitive distribution. In this talk, Kuma CEO Keith Halper discusses the techniques and technology that make episodic games possible, their cultural and financial impact, and the process of introducing revolutionary change in the buzz-driven market for games. Keith is a recognized leader in interactive gaming with dozens of industry awards and key successes in many of the world’s most significant brands, including Shrek, Jerry Seinfeld, Tom Clancy and Star Trek. Keith was formerly President of media services firm, Medium Rare, Inc., where his clients included Viacom, AOL Time Warner, Yahoo and Maxim Magazine. For more information visit www.kumagames.com ASF-1312D • UPC 8 82917 13129 5 • 27 min • DVD Disk • $14.95

YOU ARE PLAYER ONE: USER INTERFACES IN INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT, with Richard Marks (Sony Computer Entertainment). An interface revolution is coming for computer entertainment. Though graphics have improved tremendously in recent years, interfaces have improved very little. Interactivity is the defining characteristic that separates gaming from other media, and this is the area that will advance the most in the next few years. Richard Marks is Special Projects Manager for Research and Development at Sony Computer Entertainment America. Marks was an Avionics major at MIT before getting his Ph.D. at Stanford in visual sensing for underwater robotics. He then joined Teleos Research, a computer vision start-up later acquired by Autodesk. He departed and consulted for a year, before the unveiling of the PlayStation2 hardware inspired him to join PlayStation R&D. His research focus has been studying real-time video input to the PS2, and he now manages R&D Special Projects, which includes Man-Machine Interfaces and Physical Simulation. One of Marks's recent creations is the EyeToy. EyeToy: Play has been a strong commercial success, selling over 4 million copies worldwide since it launched last year. For Sony's upcoming PlayStation platforms, his lab is working on even more direct interaction as well as new natural interfaces. For more information visit www.scea.sony.com ASF-1325D • UPC 8 82917 13259 9 • 52 min • DVD Disk • $19.95

VIRTUAL MONEY, PRIVACY AND FREEDOM, with Peter Thiel (Clarium Capital). Peter Thiel is a Co-Founder and Former CEO of PayPal, Inc. and President of Clarium Capital. He is Author of The Diversity Myth: Multiculturalism and Political Intolerance On Campus, 1998. For most of history, citizens and their property have been largely immobile, subject to the tyranny of place and the depredations of governments with virtually absolute power over citizens and their assets. But the past two hundred years have been a remarkable break from the past: wealth has accrued in ever greater proportion not to the tangible world, but to the realm of ideas; advances in transportation and international trade have made people and property more mobile than ever, and the development of unbreakable codes has freed some citizens from the prying eyes of the state. In this new world, the bond between citizen and state is no longer static and cannot be taken for granted. As the power of the state wanes in the face of these trends and the increasing interjurisdictional competition they engender, citizens become clients of states rather than subjects, and the power to decide the special case increasingly falls to newly sovereign individuals. Mr. Thiel is Clarium's President and oversees the firm's research, investment, and trading strategies. For more information visit www.clariumcapital.com ASF-1327D • UPC 8 82917 13279 7 • 39 min • DVD Disk • $14.95

BULL'S EYE INVESTING: THRIVING IN A SECULAR BEAR MARKET, with John Mauldin (Millennium Wave). John Mauldin is the President of Millennium Wave Advisors and the Author of Bull's Eye Investing: Targeting Real Returns in a Smoke and Mirrors Market, 2004. It is not just in technology that we see accelerating change. The world of economics and finance is evolving to ever more sophisticated platforms. The very growth and even meaning of money is slipping away from the control of governments. And yet, the business cycle is still with us. Innovation cycles still take time to make themselves felt in the world. How will The Next Big Thing affect our economy and lifestyles? What will be the result of all the new wealth that has been and will be created? Who will benefit? And who will be left behind? John Mauldin is the creative force behind the Millennium Wave investment theory and author of the weekly economic e-mail Thoughts from the Frontline and a private letter for accredited investors. For more information visit www.2000wave.com ASF-1328D • UPC 8 82917 13289 6 • 51 min • DVD Disk • $19.95

WEB SEARCH AS A FORCE FOR GOOD: CHALLENGES IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, with Peter Norvig (Google, Inc.). Peter Norvig is the Director of Search Quality at Google, Inc and Co-Author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 2002, the world's leading textbook in AI. He is a Fellow and Councilor of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. Previously he directed the Computational Sciences Division at NASA Ames Research Center, where he oversaw a staff of 200 scientists performing NASA's research and development in autonomy and robotics, automated software engineering and data analysis, neuro-engineering, collaborative systems research, and simulation-based decision-making. Before that he was Chief Scientist at Junglee, where he helped develop one of the first Internet comparison shopping services; Chief designer at Harlequin Inc; and Senior Scientist at Sun Microsystems Laboratories. Dr. Norvig received a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. He has been a Professor at the University of Southern California and a Research Faculty Member at Berkeley. He has over fifty publications in various areas of Computer Science, concentrating on Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing and Software Engineering. For more information visit. www.norvig.com ASF-1329D • UPC 8 82917 13299 5 • 38 min • DVD Disk • $14.95

CAPTOLOGY: UNDERSTANDING HOW COMPUTERS MANIPULATE PEOPLE, with B.J. Fogg (Stanford University). B.J. Fogg is the Director of Research and Design at the Persuasive Technology Lab, Stanford University, and Author of Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do, 2002. Can computers manipulate your thoughts and actions? Can they motivate you to stop smoking, persuade you to buy stuff online, or convince you to join the Army? Yes, they can. For the past ten years he has been studying how computing products can be designed to change people’s beliefs and behaviors. More and more, interactive systems are designed to motivate and persuade people. Some applications of captology are beneficial, helping people achieve their own goals (such as exercising more often). However, many promote the interests of organizations at the expense of individuals. He also describes a new mobile phone application created by the Persuasive Technology Lab to change how you access and read digital text. An experimental psychologist, Dr. Fogg teaches courses in persuasive technology for Stanford's Computer Science Department. He's on the consulting faculty for Stanford's School of Education, where he teaches graduate seminars in the Learning, Design & Technology Program. In addition, Dr. Fogg is the Senior Director of Research & Innovation at Casio's R&D Center in Silicon Valley (www.casioresearch.com). For more information visit www.captology.org ASF-1330D • UPC 8 82917 13309 1 • 50 min • DVD Disk • $19.95

NATURAL INTERFACE PANEL PRESENTATIONS: TEXT ANALYTICS AND TALKING COMPUTERS, with Tim Sibley (StreamSage), Wlodek Zadrozny (IBM Research) and Rich Skrenta (Topix.net). TIM SIBLEY is the Chief Scientist at StreamSage. The title of his lecture is Language Processing: Is the Acceleration Missing? While advances in the field of computational linguistics certainly add to the accelerating pace of technological change within society, the field itself is riddled with exponentially hard problems, inefficient development structures and incentives, and disconnected efforts. For more, visit www.streamsage.com WLODEK ZADROZNY is a Technologist for On Demand Innovation Services at IBM Research. The title of his lecture is Analytics for Asset Valuation: Tools for Evaluating Intangible Assets are Emerging and Will Change the Investment Landscape. Intangible assets, such as brand value, customer opinions or management quality, constitute 80% of stock market valuation. Moreover, as a percentage, the proportion of intangible assets is increasing. However, there are few tools for evaluating and comparing intangibles. For more visit domino.research.ibm.com/odis/odis.nsf RICH SKRENTA is Co-Founder and CEO of Topix.net. The title of his lecture is Text Analytics for News. In his last position, Rich held a variety of senior roles at Netscape/America Online, including Director of Engineering for Netscape Search, AOL Music, and AOL Shopping. For more information visit www.topix.net ASF-1331D • UPC 8 82917 13319 0 • 58 min • DVD Disk • $19.95

SOCIAL SOFTWARE PANEL PRESENTATIONS: WEBLOGS, WIKIS AND DIGITAL DEMOCRACY, with Lada Adamic (HP Labs), Peter Kaminski (SocialText) and Zack Rosen (CivicSpace). LADA ADAMIC is a Research Scientist at HP Labs. Her lecture is titled Implicit Structure and the Dynamics of Blogspace. The electronic nature of blogs, email, and instant messaging allows us to study the flow of information and the underlying social networks on a large scale. Weblogs link together in a complex structure through which new ideas and discourse can flow. Such a structure is ideal for the study of the propagation of information. For more information visit www.hpl.hp.com PETER KAMINSKI is the Chief Technical Officer and a Co-Founder of Socialtext. The title of his lecture is Enterprising Social Software: Wikis and Weblogs. Wikis and weblogs are lean, efficient tools born and bred on the web for working together as we share information. What can we learn from these tools and the way they're used as we adapt them for use within the enterprise? For more information visit www.socialtext.com and www.peterkaminski.com ZACK ROSEN is the Founder and Director of CivicSpace Labs and the Creator of DeanSpace social software. His lecture is titled Empowering Democracy through Social Software. Social software will help define the future of our political process and the world's power structure. We've seen great breakthroughs this past year in the United States and glimpses of a radical reshaping in South Korea. For more information visit www.civicspacelabs.org ASF-1332D • UPC 8 82917 13329 7 • 47 min • DVD Disk • $19.95

FINDING HUMANITY IN THE INTERFACE (DEBATE): CAPACITY ATROPHY OR AUGMENTATION? Jaron Lanier vs. Will Wright, moderator Mark Finnern. As our interfaces get continually smarter, how do we keep them from dehumanizing us? Should we be concerned that U.S. youth have had forty years of declining math, science, and analytical reading skills? Do we need 1960's math skills in a world with ubiquitous calculators, or reading skills in a world with digital cable? Or thinking skills in a world with intelligent text analytics? JARON LANIER is the Founder of VPL Research and an Advisor to the National Tele-Immersion Initiative; he is also a Computer Scientist, Composer and Artist. Lanier notes: Computer people are sounding a lot like religious people these days. For more information visit www.advanced.org/jaron/ WILL WRIGHT is a Co-Founder of Maxis; and Creator of Sim City. Wright's social simulation game, The Sims, has become the best-selling PC game of all time. In 1999 he was included in Entertainment Weekly’s "It List" of "the 100 most creative people in entertainment" as well as Time Digital’s "Digital 50", a listing of "the most important people shaping technology today." For more information visit www.maxis.com and www.ea.com Moderator MARK FINNERN manages the Collaboration Area of the fastest growing SAP Community: The SAP Developer Network. Mark is also the founder and host of the Bay Area Future Salon, co-producer of the Accelerating Change 2004 conference, and blogger for the O'Reilly Network. ASF-1333D • UPC 8 82917 13339 8 • 60 min • DVD Disk • $19.95

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