Creative Digital posts Handheld Systems Conference final agenda.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 17, 1997--Creative Digital Publishing Inc. is pleased to announce that the final agenda for the Handheld Systems Conference (formerly PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). Developers) has been posted to the company's web site at http://www.cdpubs.com. Entering its third year, this is the only conference in the world that focuses exclusively on creating handheld hardware and software products. Taking place April 24-26 at the San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden Airport Hilton, the event includes a variety of keynotes, panels and sponsor presentations about handheld computing. Keynotes are Andrew Seybold, noted industry analyst; Jean Belanger, 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 software development tools creator Metrowerks; and IBM's Thomas Zimmerman, co-founder of the noted virtual reality company VPL 1. VPL - visual programming language. ["VPL: An Active, Declarative Visual Programming System, D. Lau-Kee et al, 1991 IEEE Workshop on Vis Langs, Oct 1991, pp. 40-46]. 2. VPL - A dataflow language for interactive image processing. Research and inventor of Personal Area Networks. Event sponsors and supporters include Microsoft, Geoworks, Hewlett-Packard, Psion, General Magic, Apple Computer, Nokia Mobile Phones, Palm Computing, Research in Motion and Pen Computing See gesture recognition and tablet PC. Magazine. In addition to several half-day tutorials on creating software for the most popular handheld platforms, there will be panels on Recognizers, Object Stores, Wireless Transports, Emerging Platforms, Smart Phones, Handheld Hardware, Integrating Applications with the Internet and the Desktop, The Business of Handheld Software, and Java Handhelds. Sponsors will also present their latest thinking on handheld technologies, the marketplace and developer opportunities, in a series of special presentations. There will be 30-40 exhibitors, including the Windows CE (Windows Consumer Electronics) Microsoft's version of Windows for handheld devices and embedded systems that use x86, ARM, MIPS and SHx CPUs. Windows CE .NET superseded Windows CE 3.0. Pavilion. Conference registration is $350 until April 15. A block of rooms is reserved at the San Francisco Airport Hilton until March 23. Press are invited to register for the keynotes and the exhibits, and the exhibits are open to the public at no charge during the afternoons of April 25 and 26. For more information, go to Creative Digital's web site or call 415/621-4252. CONTACT: Creative Digital Publishing Inc. Steve Mann Steve Mann is a tenured professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. Education Mann holds degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD in Media Arts and Sciences '97) and McMaster University, where he was , 415/621-4252 smann@cdpubs.com http://www.cdpubs.com |
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