Entropia Selected to Speak At the O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer Conference; CTO Dr. Andrew Chien to Participate in Three Talks At The Conference.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 1, 2001 O'Reilly & Associates, the premiere information source for leading-edge computer technologies, has secured Dr. Andrew Chien, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. and co-founder of San Diego-based Entropia, the pioneer in providing distributed computing (1) The use of multiple computers networked throughout a wide geographical area, or the world via the Internet, in order to solve a single problem. See grid computing. (2) The use of multiple computers in an enterprise rather than one centralized system. services, to speak at the first conference on P2P See peer-to-peer and point-to-point. . Dr. Chien will be joined by other prominent distributed computing spokespeople on two conference panels: P2P in the Enterprise and Approaches to Distributed Computation. Dr. Chien will also speak in the Lightning Talks session. "This is a great opportunity to address the issues and benefits of deploying peer-to-peer and distributed computing technology," said Dr. Chien. "As a technology leader and leading provider of this enabling technology, Entropia is happy to contribute to an important forum like this to inform the business and technical communities." Entropia has led the development of distributed computing since early 1997 when the company launched the first distributed computing project on the Internet. In his invitation to Dr. Chien, Tim O'Reilly This article is about the founder of O'Reilly Media. For the musician, see Tim O'Reilly (musician). Tim O'Reilly (Irish: Tadhg Ó Raghallaigh, 1954-) was born in Cork, Ireland. , founder and president of O'Reilly & Associates, said, "Your company is one of the most interesting of the distributed computing companies...I'd love to have you participate." In 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 from February 14-16, hundreds of technical visionaries and business leaders will attend the conference to discuss business and technical questions raised by peer-to-peer collaborative networking, heralded as the most revolutionary new Internet See Web 2.0 and Internet2. application since the advent of the Web. Sessions and panel discussions will explore platform architecture approaches, potential hurdles, emerging technologies, and developing industry standards. About Entropia Entropia, Inc., is creating the world's largest Internet and enterprise distributed computing service by converting the idle time The duration of time a device is in an idle state, which means that it is operational, but not being used. of PCs into large-scale computer power via the Internet. Internet and enterprise distributed computing are being widely embraced by industry leaders as the most intelligent form of Peer-to-Peer computing See grid computing. . By downloading Entropia software from the company's Web site, people and organizations can rescue their computers' otherwise wasted processor time for important projects that significantly accelerate progress and production in the medical, scientific, research and entertainment industries. Interested parties can play a personal role in accelerating AIDS research by running FightAIDSatHome (www.fightaidsathome.org) developed in conjunction with The Scripps Research Institute to accelerate the cure for AIDS. Entropia is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. headquartered in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , Calif. For additional information or to connect a PC to the Entropia network, visit www.entropia.com. About O'Reilly & Associates O'Reilly & Associates is the premier information sources for leading-edge computer technologies. We communicate the knowledge of experts through our books, conferences, and web sites. Our books, known for their animals on the covers, occupy a treasured place on the shelves of the developers building the next generation of software. Our conferences and summits bring innovators together to shape the revolutionary ideas that spark new industries. From the Internet to the web, Linux, Open Source, and now peer-to-peer networking, we put technologies on the map. |
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