Lane Smith coordinates the USAID's Leland Initiative, an effort to extend full Internet connectivity to more than 20 African countries in order to promote sustainable development. Rahul Tongia is a research engineer of engineering ...READ»
Micah Sifry co-edited the Iraq War Reader. A senior analyst at Public Campaign, Sifry was formerly the Middle East editor for The Nation. His talk at WTF 2004 addressed whether some of the changes in political organizing that new ...READ»
Elliott Cook is a partner in RHE Technologies. Jack Baron serves as an executive vice president for Paetec Communications. Wedge Greene works as CTO for Mission Assurance Corp. And Jim Sturtevant works with Neopolitan Networks. Their ...READ»
Art Kleiner is author of the book Who Really Matters: The Core Group Theory of Power, Privilege, and Success. Francis McInerney serves as managing director of North River Ventures. At WTF 2004, their presentations addressed the ...READ»
After dinner tonight at WTF 2004, there were a handful of short, sharp presentations in which speakers were limited to an eight- to 10-minute time slot. What follows are partial transcripts of some of the second round of talks, which ...READ»
Kenneth Deffeyes is professor emeritus of geosciences at Princeton University. The author of Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage offered his insights on the upcoming and ongoing oil crisis and some possible ways to ...READ»
Patrick Leary is chief evangelist for Alvarion, a manufacturer dealing in point-to-multipoint broadband wireless access. Steve Stroh is editor of Focus on Broadband Wireless Internet Access. Their talk at WTF 2004 incorporated ...READ»
Wendy Seltzer is a staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, as well as a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. What follows is a partial transcript of her talk at WTF 2004, as well ...READ»
After lunch today at WTF 2004, there were several short, sharp presentations in which speakers were limited to a four-minute time slot. What follows are partial transcripts of the first round of talks, which addressed open-source ...READ»
Yury Gitman is a wireless and emerging-media artist who "engages Wi-Fi, readymade objects, and the culture around wireless to create expressive pieces and art interventions." By employing a network of Magicbikes, Gitman was one of ...READ»
Terrence McGarty is founder of the Telmarc Group, an investment and technology development company that focuses on telecommunications, software, and medical management systems. His WTF 2004 presentation addressed the development, ...READ»
Eli Noam is a professor of economics and finance at the Columbia Business School, as well as director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI). CITI is a research center that concentrates on strategy, management, and ...READ»
Phil Neches was founder, chief scientist, and vice president of Teradata Corp., which applied parallel processing to relational databases. After Teradata was acquired by NCR, which was then acquired by AT&T, Neches served a number of ...READ»
George Gilder is chairman of Gilder Group Inc. and a senior fellow at Seattle's Discovery Institute, where he directs the institute's program on high technology and public policy. Author of the book Telecosm, Gilder showed up as a ...READ»
This weekend I am in Westchester County, New York, for WTF 2004, a grassroots gathering of telecom practitioners and thinkers. The conference has been called a "TED for the Bell Labs set," and the agenda reflects a wide-ranging look ...READ»
