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A. Salon Theme Suggestions
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Examples:
Outsourcing and Global Business
Global Warming and Energy
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Aerospace & Space
Future of Transportation and Hybrid Technology
Globalization and Issues of Developing Nations
A. Salon Speaker Suggestions
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Example: Joe Speaker, Description, Contact Information, why you think Joe would be a good future salon speaker.
Greg Bear is a futurist and science fiction writer with deep knowledge of biology and complex systems. Great guy. I believe he lives in San Diego. He is an ISAC board advisor. His recent books are Darwin's Radio and Darwin's Children. (Submitted by John Smart)
Email: grbear(at)earthlink.net
Website: http://www.gregbear.com
John Davis is a technology consultant in San Diego who puts on an annual course on the "Extraordinary Future" at his 1,000 member church. He had Kurzweil come to speak for them in 2001. His church is the Unitarian Universalists, who welcome all spiritual traditions, including agnostics and secular humanists. He'd be a very interesting speaker on a range of topics. (Submitted by John Smart)
Email: mail(at)johnkdavis.net
Website: http://johnkdavis.net
Gerry Deckert Bioinformatics specialist, co-founder of the San Diego Bioinformatics Circle. He lives in San Diego. (submitted by Jessica Richman)
Email: gerryd(at)sdbioinfo.org
Ted Dunning has researched methods for pattern discovery in diverse systems over the last 20 years first in an academic setting at the Computing Research Laboratory at New Mexico State University and later in emerging companies in southern California including HNC Software (now Fair Isaac Company), MusicMatch Software and ID Analytics. His work has been concerned with finding common threads in the analysis of symbolic sequences in language, genetic sequences, human web-browsing behavior, musical preferences, purchasing behavior and financial transactions. His early work on log-likelihood ratio tests for multi-nomial distributions is widely cited in the computational linguistics literature and he has authored or contributed to a number of patents. Most recently, he is an independent consultant focussing on data-mining and e-commerce optimization. Dr. Dunning lives in San Diego and could give a talk many subjects. See [Ted Dunning Contact Info] for contact information.
Larry or David, or Gary Fogel are evolutionary computation experts at Natural Selection Inc. in La Jolla, next to UCSD. David wrote the excellent Blondie24: Playing at the Edge of AI about a checkers program that uses evolutionary computation. They would be excellent speakers on a wide range of topics. (Submitted by John Smart)
Book Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1558607838/
Company Inquiry Email: nsi(at)natural-selection.com
Website: http://www.natural-selection.com
Mark Hinkley is head of the Xara Dulzura project, a Burning Man type community in San Diego. He would be an excellent speaker on intentional communities and gift economies. (Submitted by John Smart)
Email: xara-project(at)cox.net
Website: http://xara.dusk.org/
Jim Pinto is a futurist business consultant and an expert on automation who would be an excellent speaker. He has a great free e-newsletter and has done some very broad thinking about the future, and has a lot of great themes. (Submitted by John Smart).
Email: jim(at)jimpinto.com
Website: http://jimpinto.com
Larry Smarr is director of Cal (IT)2 at UCSD. He would be a great speaker. You might have to bug him repeatedly to get him to come out and speak on the future of the web and information technology but it would be worth it. His son, Joseph Smarr, is a 21 y.o. student at Stanford, and a friend of ISACer Rion Snow. (Submitted by John Smart)
Email: lsmarr(at)ucsd.edu
Website: http://www.calit2.net
Jason Wells Director of Technology for a tiny software startup called Semantic Research Inc. In addition to traditional software engineering, he does a considerable amount of research in the areas of semiotics, knowledge representation, and semantic networking. He has invented a variety of software technologies leading to 8 patent filings so far. He lives in San Diego. (submitted by Jessica Richman)
Email: jason(at)crispyneurons.com
Website: http://www.crispyneurons.com
Not speakers themselves, but possible sources for speakers:
http://www.freshnews.com/
http://www.sdmitforum.org
http://www.sdtelecom.org
http://www.sandiegobusiness.org/
http://www.fwe.org/
http://www.connect.org/
(submitted by Jessica Richman)
A. Presentation-Related Notes, Links, Discussion Resources
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A. Issue-Related Notes, Links, Discussion Resources
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