[SigCHI] Mosaic Anniversary Symposium (fwd)

[Joshua Benjamin <jebenjam@xxxxxxxx>]

Tomorrow night! I expect it's going to be a pretty big shindig.

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NCSA Celebrates Mosaic Anniversary with Free Community Symposium

In 1993, there was no AOL, no Google or Amazon.com, no MP3s, airline
e-tickets or eBay. Then came NCSA's Mosaic Web browser, the first widely
popular graphical interface for the brand new World Wide Web. Within a
year, NCSA's website logged more than 1 million downloads of its free
Mosaic software. Soon after that, some of the Mosaic developers formed
Netscape, Inc., and by the end of the decade, the World Wide Web was 
part
of our lives and the anchor of a multibillion dollar business sector.

On April 29, the center that helped bring the Web into so many lives 
will
host a symposium that will reflect on the impact of Mosaic and look 
ahead
to the technology breakthroughs that are likely to change our lives in 
the
next decade.

  "The Future Frontier: Computing on NCSA Mosaic's 10th Anniversary," 
will
feature five of the best known experts in their fields: NCSA Director 
Dan
Reed, WorldCom's Vinton Cerf, Groove Networks' Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's 
Rick
Rashid, and Intel's David Kuck. These experts will identify innovations 
and
trends, including those on the horizon and others that are still the 
dreams
of big thinkers. Topics will range from the impact of Mosaic and its
progeny, including Netscape Navigator and Microsoft's Internet 
Explorer, on
society, science, and business to the panelists' long-term visions of 
the
future of computing, networking, and technology.

The symposium will be held from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Foellinger 
Auditorium
on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This 
free
event will feature an audience Q & A session.

Located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, NCSA is a
National Science Foundation-funded high-performance computing and IT
research center. More information on the Mosaic Symposium is available 
at
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Conferences/MosaicEvent/.


About the speakers:

Vinton Cerf
Vinton G. Cerf is senior vice president of Architecture and Technology 
for
WorldCom. Cerf's team of architects and engineers design advanced
networking frameworks including Internet-based solutions for delivering 
a
combination of data, information, voice and video services for business 
and
consumer use.

Widely known as one of the "Fathers of the Internet," Cerf is the
co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the 
Internet.
In December 1997, President Clinton presented the U.S. National Medal of
Technology to Cerf and his partner, Robert E. Kahn, for founding and
developing the Internet.

Prior to rejoining MCI in 1994, Cerf was vice president of the 
Corporation
for National Research Initiatives (CNRI). As vice president of MCI 
Digital
Information Services from 1982-1986, he led the engineering of MCI Mail,
the first commercial email service to be connected to the Internet.

During his tenure from 1976-1982 with the U.S. Department of Defense's
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Cerf played a key role 
leading
the development of Internet and Internet-related data packet and 
security
technologies.


Dan Reed
Daniel A. Reed is director of the National Center for Supercomputing
Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
and
of the National Computational Science Alliance (Alliance), a nationwide
effort to prototype the 21st century's information infrastructure. He is
also a principal investigator with the NSF TeraGrid project, an effort
launched in FY2002 to build and deploy the world's largest, most
comprehensive infrastructure for open scientific research.

Reed came to the U of I in 1984 as an assistant professor of computer
science and was department head from 1996-2001. He is a respected 
leader in
the national computer science community and a member of several national
collaborations, including the Center for Grid Application Development
Software (GrADS) and the National Earthquake Engineering System (NEES).
Reed also serves on the board of directors of the Computing Research
Association (CRA). In 2001, he was named a recipient of the Edward 
William
and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professorship by the University of Illinois in
recognition of his distinguished service as university faculty member.

Reed's ongoing research interests include tools and techniques for
capturing and analyzing the performance of parallel systems via
instrumentation and presentation techniques, and collaborative virtual
environments for real-time performance analysis. Reed received his 
Ph.D. in
computer science in 1983 from Purdue University.

Ray Ozzie
Ray Ozzie founded Groove Networks in October 1997. Previously, Ray was a
founder and president of Iris Associates, where he created and led the
development of Lotus Notes, the defining groupware product used by more
than 85 million people worldwide.

Prior to Iris, Ray was instrumental in the development of Lotus Symphony
and Software Arts' TK!Solver and VisiCalc, and did early distributed
operating systems development at Data General Corp.

Ray earned a bachelor's degree in computer science and has been honored 
as
a distinguished alumnus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
where he was first exposed to the nature and significance of 
collaborative
systems and computer-supported cooperative work while working on the
university's seminal PLATO project. This work significantly influenced 
his
perspective on collaborative systems and the projects he has undertaken
throughout his career.

Honored as one of seven "Windows Pioneers" by Microsoft, Ray was named
"Person of the Year" in 1995 by PC Magazine, and was cited as one of the
"top five developers of the century" in an online poll conducted by
Computer Reseller News.

Rick Rashid
Dr. Richard Rashid was named vice president of research for Microsoft in
July 1994. Today he heads the Microsoft Research Group.

Before joining Microsoft in September of 1991, Dr. Rashid held the 
position
of Professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. He 
received
his master of science. (1977) and Ph.D. (1980) degrees in computer 
science
from the University of Rochester. He had previously graduated with 
Honors
in mathematics from Stanford University (1974).

After becoming a CMU faculty member in September 1979, he directed the
design and implementation of several influential network operating 
systems,
and published dozens of papers in the areas of computer vision, 
operating
systems, programming languages for distributed processing, network
protocols, and communications security. Dr. Rashid is credited with
co-development of one of the earliest networked computer games, Alto 
Trek,
during the mid-1970s. Dr. Rashid was the director of the CMU Mach 
Operating
System Project. The Mach kernel is in use worldwide by companies such as
NeXT, organizations such as the Open Software Foundation, and corporate 
and
University research laboratories.

Dr. Rashid is a past member of the DARPA UNIX Steering Committee and 
CSNet
Executive Committee. He is also a former chairman of the ACM System 
Awards
Committee.


David J. Kuck
David J. Kuck is an Intel Fellow, Enterprise Platforms Group and 
Director
of the KAI Software Lab. KAI is a leading provider of performance-
oriented
compilers and programming tools used in the development of multithreaded
applications.

Kuck founded KAI in 1979 and was Chairman of the Board through 2000.
Previously, he was a faculty member of the Computer Science and 
Electrical
and Computer Engineering departments of the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. He also served as director of the Center for
Supercomputing Research and Development.

Kuck holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the
University of Michigan, as well as master's degree and Ph.D. in 
engineering
from Northwestern University. He is a fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Computing Machinery,
and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He is also a
member of the National Academy of Engineering.

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