Paul Saffo, Director of the Institute for the Future, will give the keynote address, "Is Digital Dead?" at SC97 on Tuesday November 18, 1997 at the San Jose Civic Auditorium. Saffo was recently named by the World Economic Forum as one of the Forum's 100 1997 "Global Leaders for Tomorrow." Saffo's work at the Institute for the Future focuses on the long-term social and commercial impacts of new information technologies. He also writes on emerging technology issues and their long-term implications. His work has been featured in a variety of publications, including The Harvard Business Review, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and Fortune, and he has completed a book of his essays, "Dreams in Silicon Valley." San Jose's Mayor Susan Hammer, a supporter of bringing high technology into K-12 classrooms, will welcome SC97 attendees to the conference at the keynote address. In 1993 Hammer created the San Jose Education Network (SJEN), a cooperative effort between City Hall, local schools, and private business. SJEN employs technology to improve teaching and learning skills in San Jose high schools. In part because of Hammer's efforts, San Jose has more classrooms online than any city in the world. The SC97 technical panels bring recognized leaders together to discuss current issues in high performance networking and computing. As in past years, the Friday morning panels stand alone, with no conflicting sessions, allowing attendees to end their SC97 experience with presentations and discussions focused on timely issues. The Friday panels are: PACI Bob Borchers, National Science Foundation; Sid Karin, National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure; Peter Kollman, University of California, San Francisco; Larry Smarr, National Computational Science Alliance; Bob Sugar, University of California, Santa Barbara I/O and Interconnects Bill Boas, Abba Technologies; Greg Chesson, Silicon Graphics; Dave Follett, Giganet; Randy Rettberg, Sun Microsystems; Justin Rattner, Intel; Chuck Seitz, Myricom ASCI Strategic Alliances Alex Larzelere, Department of Energy; Michael T. Heath, University of Illinois; Daniel Meiron, California Institute of Technology; David Pershing, University of Utah; William Reynolds, Stanford University; Robert Rosner, University of Chicago The Role of High Performance Computing and Informatics in Pharmaceutical Research and Development Frederick H. Hausheer, BioNumerik Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Babu Venkataraghavan, American Cyanamid Company; Eugene Fluder, Merck & Co. Other technical panels are: ___Tuesday, November 18 Digital Libraries Sally Howe, National Coordination Office for Computing, Information, and Communications; Alexa McCray, National Library of Medicine; Terence Smith, University of California at Santa Barbara; Howard Wactlar, Carnegie Mellon University High Performance I/O Paul Messina, Jim Pool, Center for Advanced Computing Research; David Greenberg, Sandia National Laboratories; Reagan Moore, NPACI, UCSD; Marc Snir, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center; Tom Ruwart, University of Minnesota Building Computational Grids Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory; Carl Kesselman, USC Information Sciences Institute; Larry Smarr, NCSA; Songnian Zhou, Platform Computing Corporation ___Wednesday, November 19 Confidence in Simulation Vic Reis, Department of Energy; Tom Adams, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Richard Hodur, Naval Research Laboratory; Greg Shubin, The Boeing Company; Sam Thurman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Breakthroughs and Challenges ahead in Computer Architecture David Culler, University of California, Berkeley; James H. Gray, Microsoft; Greg Papadopoulos, Sun Microsystems Computer Company; Burton Smith, Tera Computer; John L. Hennessy, Stanford University The Future of Software Development Environments for Parallel/Distributed Computing Barton Miller, University of Wisconsin; Dennis Gannon, Indiana University; Ken Kennedy, Rice University; Doug Pase, IBM Power Parallel Division; Dan Reed, University of Illinois ___Thursday, November 20 Networking Initiatives: Internet 2 and Next Generation Internet Larry Landweber, University of Wisconsin; David J. Farber, University of Pennsylvania; George Strawn, National Science Foundation; Jim Gray, Microsoft; Steve Wolff, Cisco Systems Visualization Paul Woodward, University of Minnesota; Pat Hanrahan, Stanford University; Chris Johnson, University of Utah; Tom DeFanti, University of Illinois at Chicago; Philip Heerman, Sandia National Laboratories
SC97 Announces Keynoter Paul Saffo and Technical Panels
November 14, 1997