Below is the conference program for Networking Tompkins County 1997.
To find out more about the speakers, organizations, and the web sites listed
below, visit our Speakers page.
8:00-9:00 am |
Registration |
9:00-10:30 am
Auditorium
|
Welcome
Bill Kaupe, President, IthacaNet,
Inc.
Don Randel, Provost, Cornell
University
Morning Keynote
Tom Edwards, Executive Director, CLEAR
Foundation, "Avoiding Information Apartheid" |
10:30-11:00 am |
Break |
11:00-12:00 pm |
Track sessions |
Auditorium
|
Track I: Visions
of the Future
Session 1: When Worlds Collide The Internet's impact on
society--and society's impact on the Internet.
Marjorie Hodges, Policy Advisor to Cornell
Information Technologies, Director of the Cornell Program on Computer
Policy and Law.
John Levine,
author of The Internet
for Dummies.
David Lytel,
President of Sherpa Consulting Group,
and a former Member of the White House staff.
|
Amphitheater
|
Track II: Technologies
of the Future
Session 1: The Future of High-Speed Networking
Dick Cogger, Director, Advanced
Technologies and Planning, Cornell
Information Technologies.
Carl Ledbetter, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer,
Hybrid Networks, Inc. "The Economic
Value of Human Impatience"
|
Yale/Princeton
|
Track III:
Partnerships for the Future
Session 1: Networking Public Schools & Community Services
Marilyn E. Kinner, Executive Director, Tompkins County Senior
Citzens Council, Inc., "The Forgotten Generation - Senior Citizens
and Computing"
Cynthia LaPier, Director of Information and Instructional Technology,
Ithaca City School District, "Where
are we and where are we going? A Roadmap"
Ed Swayze, Program Director, Information
and Referral Services, Human
Services Coalition of Tompkins County. "GrassRoots Information
and Referral".
|
12:00-1:30 pm |
Lunch (Ballroom) |
1:30-2:30 pm |
Track sessions |
Auditorium
|
Track I:
Visions of the Future
Session 2: The Library of the Future
Peter McDonald, Founding member, Progressive Librarians Guild,
and Library Director, NYS
Agriculture Experiment Station, Geneva
Sarah Thomas, University Librarian, Cornell
University
Arthur Weeks, Executive Director, Finger Lakes Library System
Mary Zingerella, Director, Waterloo Library
|
Amphitheater
|
Track II: Technologies
of the Future
Session 2: Bandwidth and the Future of the Internet
Alan K. McAdams, Professor and Managerial Economist, Johnson Graduate School of Management,
Cornell University.
H. David Lambert, Vice President for Information
Technologies, Cornell University.
|
Yale/Princeton
|
Track III:
Partnerships for the Future
Session 2: Municipalities on the Web
Larry Fresinski, Trustee, Village
of Lansing, "Web Do's & Don'ts for Municipalities".
Bob Spaulding, Supervisor, Town
of Caroline,"The Caroline Experience"
|
2:30-2:45 pm |
Break |
2:45-3:45 pm |
Track sessions |
Auditorium
|
Track I: Visions
of the Future
Session 3: Business Networking in the 21st Century
Diane Gayeski, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Corporate
Communication, Ithaca College, and
Partner, OmniCom Associates.
John Alexander, President and Founder, The
CBORD Group, Inc.
Carl Frederick, Chief Scientist, Trilenium Corporation
|
Amphitheater
|
Track II: Technologies
of the Future
Session 3: High-Tech and Low-Tech Wiring
Chuck Bartosch, Clarity
Connect, Inc.
Paul Lee, Assistant Superintendant, Putnam
Valley School District
|
Yale/Princeton
|
Track III:
Partnerships for the Future
Session 3: Community Science
Warren Allmon, Director, Paleontological
Research Institition, "PRI: Ithaca's Virtual Museum of the Earth".
Margaret Barker, Education Outreach Classroom, & Meredith
Kusch, FeederWatch Coordinator, Lab
of Ornithology, Cornell University. "Citizen Science and the Internet".
|
3:45-4:00 pm |
Break |
4:00-4:45 pm
Auditorium
|
Introduction & Presentation
Introduction of the "Partnership
for an Electronic Future, Phase I".
Presentation ceremony--first annual IthacaNet
Award for Achievement in Networking Tompkins County. |
4:45-5:30 pm
Auditorium
|
Afternoon Keynote
Douglas E. Van Houweling, Dean for Academic
Outreach and Vice Provost for Information
and Technology, University of Michigan
"When the World Is a Place, Where Is Tompkins County?". |
Ongoing activities...
|
All Day
Penn
|
Demonstrations
Demonstrations by local organizations of their networking & web sites.
- Association
of Information Technology Professionals
- Boy Scouts
- CLEAR Foundation
- FeederWatch, Lab of Ornithology,
Cornell University
- Literacy Volunteers
- MUGWUMP
|
All Day
Amphitheater Foyer, Columbia
|
Vendor Displays
Columbia
- Apple Computer
- Frontier Cellular
- Sherpa Technologies
Amphitheater Foyer
- Clarity Connect
- Davis Printing & Graphics
- Finger Lakes Technologies Group
- Francis Audio-Visual
- Spider Graphics
- Virtual Ithaca
|
All Day
Dartmouth
|
Internet Access
Public Internet Access Room--Try out what you just heard about!
Sponsored by Tenet, Inc. and the Cornell
Theory Center. |
