Hello Futurists,
I wanted to let you know about some upcoming events related to the
40th anniversary of Doug Engelbart's "Mother of All Demos". Detailed
agenda for Program for the Future follows the event lists.

November 20 (evening):
* Engineering Leadership SIG: Featuring World-famous Doug Engelbart
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM November 20, 2008
SAP Building D, Southern Cross Room
(No pre-registration required, info. at:
http://sdforum.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Calendar.eventDetail&eventID=13250)

December 8 (day):
* Program for the Future: Speakers and Workshops on collective
intelligence at The Tech Museum of Innovation. An interactive
conference inspired by Doug Engelbart's vision of harnessing
technology for human betterment.
7:45AM - 5PM
Tech Museum of Innovation San Jose, CA
(Registration at: http://www.programforthefuture.org)(250 max)

December 8 (evening):
* Program for the Future Dinner Talk
Andries van Dam, Professor of Computer Science, Brown University in
conversation with Joel Orr
6PM Adobe Cafe 345 Park Ave San Jose (100 max)
(Registration at: http://www.programforthefuture.org)

December 9 (morning):
* "Program for the Future Organizing Workshop"
8AM-12 Noon
Stanford University Wallenburg Hall (150 max)
(Registration at: http://www.programforthefuture.org)

December 9 (afternoon):
* "Engelbart and the Dawn of Interactive Computing: SRI's
Revolutionary 1968 Demo — A 40th Anniversary Celebration"
1PM - 530PM
Stanford University Memorial Auditorium
(Registration at: http://www.sri.com/engelbart-event.html)




Program for the Future

Program for the Future is dedicated to Douglas Engelbart's quest to
harness technology for human betterment. Sponsored by The Tech Museum
of Innovation, the MIT Museum, The New Media Consortium, and SDForum,
this two-day conference is a dialog with people developing new tools,
interfaces, research and methods to augment collective intelligence.
It will be held December 8 and 9 in San José and Stanford, California.

Speakers on December 8 include Professor Thomas Malone, author of The
Future of Work and Director of the MIT Center for Collective
Intelligence, Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google, and The
New Media Consortium www.nmc.org an example of Engelbart's prescient
concept of a networked improvement community. Professor Andries van
Dam of Brown University who hosted the 50th anniversary of Vannevar
Bush's groundbreaking article "As We May Think." will be the highlight
of the December 8th Evening program. Program chairs are Professor
Hiroshi Ishii, Associate Director of the MIT Media Lab, and Joel Orr,
Founder of the Congress on the Future of Engineering Software.

December 9th's morning program is a Call to Action to organize
ourselves to move forward to harness the collective intelligence of
our community. The afternoon program shifts to the Stanford Memorial
Hall joining with the SRI commemoration of the team that created the demo.

On this, the 40th anniversary of Engelbart's legendary "mother of all
demos," the Program for the Future will launch a global competition
for new tools that improve collective Intelligence. In keeping with
Engelbart's vision of mass collaboration, this event also brings
together many communities -- education, business, nonprofit, social,
political and technology. Together we will brainstorm ways to enhance
our capability for problem-solving, decision-making, knowledge
organization, and planning in every field of human endeavor.


SPEAKERS
* Professor Hiroshi Ishii, Associate Director, MIT Media Laboratory
* Joel Orr VP and Chief Visionary, Cyon Research
* Peter Friess President, The Tech Museum of Innovation
* Sam Hahn, eGain - industry panel 12/9
* Professor Tom Malone, Director, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
* Professor Andries van Dam, Brown Univ. Dinner keynote speaker
* Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google
* William Mark, Vice President, SRI, Information and Computing
Sciences Division
* Paul Resnick, University of Michigan
* Alan Kay, President, Viewpoints Research Institute
* David Nordfors - Director Center for Innovative Journalism, Stanford
University
* William Mark - Vice President, Information and Computing Sciences
Division, SRI
* New Media Consortium - Larry Johnson CEO,
- Rachel Smith, VP NMC Services and
- Alan Levine, VP Community and CTO


Program for the Future:
A Summit & Workshop on Collective Intelligence
Dec. 8, 2008 The Tech Museum of Innovation
SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE

7:45 Registration (Coffee and pastry bar)

8:15 Joel Orr, Doug Engelbart, Karen Engelbart
"Welcome to the summit on Collective Intelligence"
How can individuals participate in integrating Collective Intelligence
into their studies, business, or art in order to achieve beneficial
results that exceed the expected output?

8:30 Peter Norvig Director of Research, Google
"Walkthrough the Collective Intelligence Mural and Timeline"
Where are we? How did we get here? Where are we going? Understand the
connected revolution through a graphical timeline. Learn how
visualizing time provides insight into things that have happened and
things to come.

9:00 Thomas Malone Director of the Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT
"The Landscape of Collective Intelligence"
A central question for whole field of collective intelligence is "How
can people and computers be connected so that - collectively - they
act more intelligently than any individuals, groups or computers have
ever done before?" This talk will describe some early answers to this
question in business, science, and other areas.

10:00 Hiroshi Ishii Associate Director of the MIT Media Lab, Director,
Head of the Tangible Media Group
"The Art of Tangible Bits - Inspired by Engelbart's Vision"
Today's technologies will become obsolete in one year, and today's
applications will be replaced in 10 years, but true visions – we
believe – can last longer than 100 years. Tangible Bits is our
vision-driven research that aims at 2200, and it was inspired by
Engelbart's grand vision demonstrated in 1968.

10:20 Larry Johnson, CEO; Alan Levine, VP Community & CTO, and Rachel
Smith, VP NMC Services – executive team of the New Media Consortium
"The Story of the New Media Consortium" – a networked improvement
community inspired by Engelbart

10:40 Break

11:00 Peter Friess President The Tech Museum and John Durant President
MIT Museum
"Redefining the Museum in the Connected Age" Science and technology
centers worldwide are redefining themselves as experiential
environments where new interfaces and new concepts can be shown.
Learn why interactive museum exhibits are staged to become sought
after spaces for technology companies and thought leaders to not only
test new interfaces and ideas, but to interact with valuable audiences
in new ways.

11:30 Activity: "Collective Intelligence Brainstorming and Insight
Groups" (led by Joel Orr and Team ) Activity: Assemble around tables
in up to 5 (or more if needed) topical groups. Groups brainstorm on
aspects of a networked present and futureand how they might shape the
topical business or study area. Post it notes, clustering and other
mural activities. White sheets are used with markers to sketch-up
ideas, keywords, and defining trends.


12:00 Brownbag lunch

12:30 William Mark, Vice President, SRI, Information and Computing
Sciences Division "SRI - Innovation inspired by Engelbart"

1:00 Professor Paul Resnick of the University of Michigan
"Reputation Systems & Collective Intelligence"

1:30 Activity: Breakout Groups report back.
Breakout groups send 1 spokesperson to deliver a 5 minute summary of
their work and insight.

2:00 "Program for The Future: The Collective Intelligence Prize" The
Tech Museum and the MIT Musuem Introduction to Program for the Future
2009 competition. Learn the overall goals of the competition and how
to participate. Official launch of the competition with rules,
contacts, parameters, and introduction to the sites and tools used.
Learn how individuals or companies can generate entries. Learn how
your company or organization can benefit by sponsoring a topic or
industry based prize.

2:30 Open Forum discussion, Q&A, Open Mic, and networking

3:00 Group Tour: "Leonardo: 500 Years into the Future"
Tour together and in groups for inspiration on new ways to overcome
the challenges to collective intelligence. Networking in the
exhibition lobby.

5:00 Museum closes: Leave for Reception and Dinner

5:30 Reception and Networking

6:00 Program for the Future Dinner Talk
Andries van Dam, Professor of Computer Science, Brown University in
conversation with Joel Orr
Activity: White sheets from breakout groups on walls for discussion

7:00 Dinner + discussion continues

9:00 Wrapup


Dec. 9, 2008 Stanford University Wallenberg Hall
Directions to Wallenberg Hall

Call to Action: Organizing Ourselves - Morning Program

8:00 am Registration – Open to the public
Join Program for the Future organizers, participants and New Media
Consortium for networking prior to the Stanford program

8:15 am "Program for the Future Organizing Workshop" , Stanford
location tba. (Organized by Valerie Landau, Eileen Clegg and Mei Lin
Fung) Timeline Mural and group worksheets on view. Open to all who
wish to get information, network and take action.

10:15 Journalist Panel - To be announced

11:00 Industry Panel - To be announced

12:00 Wrap- up and walk to Stanford Memorial Auditorium

1:00 - 5:30 pm
Engelbart and the Dawn of Interactive Computing: SRI's Revolutionary
1968 Demo — A 40th Anniversary Celebration
Stanford Memorial Auditorium

Detailed agenda at: http://www.sri.com/engelbart-event.html
They call it the "mother of all demos".
On December 9, 1968, Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart and the Augmentation
Research Center (ARC) at Stanford Research Institute staged a
90-minute public multimedia demonstration at the Fall Joint Computer
Conference in San Francisco. It was the world debut of personal and
interactive computing: for the first time, the public saw a computer
mouse, which controlled a networked computer system to demonstrate
hypertext linking, real-time text editing, multiple windows with
flexible view control, cathode display tubes, and shared-screen
teleconferencing.

It changed what is possible. The 1968 demo presaged many of the
technologies we use today, from personal computing to social
networking. The demo embodied Doug Engelbart's vision of solving
humanity's most important problems by using computers to improve
communication and collaboration.

On December 9, 2008 at Stanford University's Memorial Auditorium, SRI
International will present a commemorative 40th anniversary of this
historic event. Join us to hear original participants recount what led
up to the 1968 demo, the drama of the demonstration itself, and its
impact — which no one could have imagined at the time. Learn about
Doug Engelbart's vision to use computing to augment society's
collective intellect and ability to solve the complex issues of our time.
Detailed agenda at: http://www.sri.com/engelbart-event.html



ADMISSION

VIP Registration for the two-day conference: (includes everything)
$210 ($275 after Nov. 21)
$175 (for Tech Museum, SDForum, NextNow members, and MIT, Oregon
State, UCBerkeley alumni)

Dec 8 day only
$129 ($199 after Nov. 21)
$99 (for Tech Museum, SDForum, NextNow members, and MIT, Oregon
State, UCBerkeley alumni)]

Dec 8 dinner only
$85 ($95 after Nov. 21)
$75 (for Tech Museum, SDForum, NextNow members, and MIT, Oregon
State, UCBerkeley alumni)

Dec 9 morning only
$20 ($25 after Nov. 21)
$15 (for Tech Museum, SDForum, NextNow members, and MIT, Oregon
State, UCBerkeley alumni)

Discounts: Tech Museum, SDForum, NextNow members, and MIT, Oregon
State, UCBerkeley alumni. Discount subject to verification.
New Media Consortium members order through New Media Consortium


Dec 9 1PM SRI Event at Stanford:

"Engelbart and the Dawn of Interactive Computing: SRI's Revolutionary
1968 Demo — A 40th Anniversary Celebration"
Information on this separate event can be found at
http://sri.com/engelbart