Odysseys in Technology

Computer History Museum Speaker Series,
sponsored by Sun Microsystems Laboratories

Past Speakers

October 17, 2006 - 2006 Fellow Awards

June 5, 2006 - Wireless Sensors: Inventing the Future
D. K. Arvind, Roger Meike, and Richard Newton

May 24, 2006 - The History of the Future of the City

April 24, 2006 - An Evening with Wiki Inventor Ward Cunningham in Conversation with John Gage

March 15, 2006 - Pioneering the Laptop: Engineering the GRiD Compass 1100
Glenn Edens, Carol Hankins, Craig Mathias, Dave Paulsen

February 14, 2006 - Social Computing: From Message Boards to Blogs & Beyond
Erik Fair, Randy Farmer, Reid Hoffman, Mena Trott, and Kara Swisher

January 11, 2006 - Sun Founders Panel
Andy Bechtolsheim, Bill Joy, Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy and John Gage, Moderator

December 07, 2005 - An Evening with Paul Baran,
in conversation with Henry Lowood

November 7, 2005 - The Origins of Zelenogra
Steven Usdin - CO-HOSTED BY US-Russia Technology Symposium

October 19, 2005 - An Evening with Ivan Sutherland
Research and Fun

September 13, 2005 - An Evening with Carol Bartz
Carol Bartz, Chairman of the Board, President, and CEO Autodesk

June 6, 2005 - When Computers Were Human
David Alan Grier - Editor of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing and is an associate professor in the Science and Technology Policy at the George Washington University

May 16, 2005 - A Human Story of Computer Animation
Brad Birdz, Director, The Incredibles, Ed Catmull, President, Pixar Animation Studios, Alvy Ray Smith, Co-Founder of four centers of computer graphics excellence (Altamira, Pixar, Lucasfilm, New York Tech) and a Microsoft Fellow, Andrew Stanton, Director, Screenwriter and Voice of Crush, Finding Nemo, and Michael Rubin, Moderator, Author of Droidmaker: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution

April 27, 2005 - Innovation is Nothing New: 100-Odd Years of Venture Capital Wisdom
Reid Dennis, and Pitch Johnson

March 23, 2005- Pixels and Me
Richard F. Lyon - Chief Scientist, Foveon, Inc., Spouse Member of the ACM, and Fellow of the IEEE

February 23, 2005 - From Gutenberg to Galaxy: Accessing Cultural Assets Online Odysseys in Technology
Panelists:Rick Prelinger, Czeslaw Jan Grycz, Paula Jabloner, Henry Lowood, and Mark Mudge

January 26, 2005 - Information Security-Before, During, and After Public-Key Cryptograph
Speakers: Whitfield Diffie VP, Sun Fellow, Chief Security Officer, Sun Microsystems

December 14, 2004 - Music Meets The Computer
John Chowning, Max Mathews, and Curtis Roads
Sponsored by Sun Microsystems Laboratories
Co-presented by ZeroOne: The Art and Technology Network

September 28, 2004 The Glacial Rate of Breakneck Change
Speakers: Greg Papadopoulos, PhD, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer