Symposium
Dates
May 21 and May 22, 2003
Over two days -- May 21 and 22, 2003 – forty-eight participants representing convention, exhibition and meeting industry leaders, technology company executives and MIT faculty and staff, gathered at MIT as part of an invitation-only research symposium. The focus of the event was to explore ways in which emerging Web service application technology might support industry-wide innovation and productivity. The symposium concluded with industry leaders setting a deadline of no later than September 15, 2003, to form an industry/MIT consortium to engage research and development, based on the challenges and opportunities laid out in the symposium.
Below are
the PowerPoint presentations that supported intense give and take in thee
panel sessions and four “reference project” demonstrations.
Presentations
Shape
of Things to Come
Thomas Piper, Principal Research Scientist,
MIT
Reference
Project - Traffic Control for the Convention Floor
Sanjay
Sarma – Chairman of Research and Co-Founder, Auto-ID
Center, MIT
Reference
Project – The Visitor’s
Channel
David Mycue – Principal Strategist, Digital Technologies and
Head of Streaming Operations, MIT
Networked Services Communications for the Future
Rick Hutley,
Managing Director, Internet Business Solutions Group, Cisco Systems
Reference
Project -- Digital Way-finding
Joseph Ferreira, Director of Planning Support Systems Group, MIT
Consortium
Models
David Verrill, Executive, Director, Center for e-Business, MIT