Billy Tauzin Reveals His Personal Assistant At High-Tech Summit; She Takes and Places His Calls, Manages His Contacts and Messages - And She's a Computer.BATON ROUGE Baton Rouge (băt`ən r  zh) [Fr.,=red stick], city (1990 pop. 219,531), state capital and seat of East Baton Rouge parish, SE La. , La.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 11, 1999--
Today, at a forum held at Louisiana State University Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, generally known as Louisiana State University or LSU, is a public, coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and the main campus of the Louisiana State University System. where Congressman Billy Tauzin Wilbert Joseph Tauzin, II, usually known as Billy Tauzin, (born June 14 1943), American politician of Cajun descent, was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1980 to 2005, representing Louisiana's 3rd congressional district. spoke about the impact of technology on America's future, Wildfire Communications received large kudos from the chairman of the Telecommunications Subcommittee. After his speech, during which he spoke about the positive impact technology has and will continue to have on America and its citizens, Tauzin demonstrated his Wildfire personal assistant as an example of the large technological leaps America is taking. Today's forum, "America's Digital Future: A New Millennium Summit The Millennium Summit was a meeting among many world leaders lasting three days from 6 September[1] to 8 September 2000[2] at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. ," was held to show Louisianians how to use modern technology to their advantage. In addition to Tauzin, speakers included Mike Foster, governor of Louisiana CODE, OF LOUISIANA. In 1822, Peter Derbigny, Edward Livingston, and Moreau Lislet, were selected by the legislature to revise and amend the civil code, and to add to it such laws still in force as were not included therein. ; William Kennard, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Federal Communications Commission (FCC), independent executive agency of the U.S. government established in 1934 to regulate interstate and foreign communications in the public interest. ; Barry Diller, chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of USA Networks; and Craig Mundie, senior vice president of Microsoft. Tauzin's demonstration of Wildfire as an example of how cutting-edge technology should be applied ended the day-long summit. Wildfire Communications develops and markets Wildfire, the first speech-based electronic assistant to be offered as an enhanced service by phone companies. By using speech recognition to manage telephone communications for busy people, Wildfire significantly enhances productivity, efficiency and safety. Wildfire is currently offered by Pacific Bell Wireless
"As Chairman of the Telecommunications Subcommittee, one of my goals is to oversee the creation of a national wireless infrastructure," said Congressman Billy Tauzin. "This network will allow us access to information no matter where we may be. And that network should have a simple, easy to use interface as we have demonstrated." "When Wildfire Communications was founded, the vision for the product was that it would spread like its name -- like Wildfire," said Dan Hoy, president and CEO of Wildfire Communications. "With recent large mass market deployments and support from technology leaders like Congressman Tauzin, this vision is rapidly becoming reality." About Wildfire Communications Wildfire Communications, Inc., headquartered in Lexington, Mass., is a pioneer in the field of virtual-assistant technology. The company develops and markets Wildfire(R) as an enhanced service offered by public telephone network carriers. Wildfire Communications, Inc., is located at 81 Hartwell Ave., Lexington, MA 02421. For more information on Wildfire Communications, visit their Web site at www.wildfire.com. For a demonstration of the Wildfire assistant, call 1.800.WILDFIRE. |
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