O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference opens call for participation--ETech 2007 to explore "Sufficiently Advanced Technology".The call for participation for ETech 2007 has opened, and O'Reilly Media invites technologists and strategists, CTOs and chief scientists, researchers, programmers, hackers, and standards workers, business developers, and entrepreneurs to lead conference sessions and tutorials. ETech takes place on March 26-29, 2007 in San Diego, California “San Diego” redirects here. For other uses, see San Diego (disambiguation). San Diego is a coastal Southern California city located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States. As of 2006, the city has a population of 1,256,951. . Proposals are due no later than October 9, 2006. Technologies and transformations currently on the radar for ETech 2007 include: ** TiVo took a commodity Linux box See box. , imbued it with a television hook-up, recorder, and decent user-interface--yet is so much more than the VCR VCR: see videocassette recorder. VCR in full videocassette recorder Electromechanical device that records, stores on a videotape cassette, and plays back on a TV set recorded images and sound. . ** Google scored web pages by the words they contain *and* by the number of times those pages were linked to by other web pages, a simple idea that lets the web scale. ** BitTorrent's use of sufficiently advanced resource locators and fragmented files together allows the entertainment industry see the Internet as an opportunity, not a threat. ** Just what is the technology landscape behind the orchestration orchestration Art of choosing which instruments to use for a given piece of music. The sections of the orchestra historically were separate ensembles: the stringed instruments for indoors, the woodwind instruments for outdoors, the horns for hunting, and trumpets and drums jujitsu jujitsu or jujutsu: see judo; martial arts. jujitsu Martial art that employs holds, throws, and paralyzing blows to subdue or disable an opponent. It evolved among the samurai warrior class in Japan from about the 17th century. of logistics masters the likes of FedEx, UPS, Amazon, Netflix, and Wal-Mart? ** When will it be possible to receive a monthly DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. with the top 100 rental movies--or at least the first fifteen minutes of each as a teaser teaser an animal used to sexually tease but not to impregnate the members of the opposite sex. Usually males and they may be surgically prepared to ensure that they cannot mate or are not fertile. while the rest trickles in through the network? ** Bionic systems combine biological and mechanical systems to create an enhanced system that is more powerful than either alone. Where is this people-inside intelligence being baked into projects, products, and services? ** Programmers have always dreamed of that data-store in the sky, an enormous, secure, easily integrate-able hash that truly raises software above the level of a single device and data above the level of a single application and use. What does this mean for the way we interact with our data? What impact does this data-ubiquity have on program design? Join with 1200 participents at ETech to learn and discover which areas of technology have sufficiently advanced. ETech taps into the creative spirit of all participants, sparking provocative encounters and productive inspiration that continue long after the conference ends. ETech is built on many layers of conversations: plenary sessions Plenary session is a term often used in s to define the part of the conference when all members of all parties are in attendance. These sessions may contain a broad range of content from Keynotes to Panel Discussions and are not necessarily related to a specific style of delivery. that alternate between rapid-fire high-order bits and blue-sky views from visionaries; in-depth, thoughtful discussions with experts during three-hour tutorials; breakout sessions that inspire real-world ideas; events, extra-curricular activities, and a lively "hallway track" that foster unexpected encounters. www.o'reilly.com |
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