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Table of Contents Listed by Forum (Venue), Then by Date The Powersharing Series: Table of Contents Listed by Forum (Venue), then by Date Forum Date Speaker Program Title Key Pgm AppleFest 5/14/82 Steve Jobs and Keynote Address by Apple's founders: OHP 100 Boston Steve Wozniak The Past and Future of Apple Computer AppleFest 5/16/82 Mike Harvey Nibble Publisher:How to Start and BU 160 Boston Survive in Business with Your PC BCS-C&E 10/00/89 BCS Panel Consultants and Entrepreneurs group+ BU 219 + HB new Home Bus. Grp: Variety of H.Bs. BCS-Ed 10/12/88 Alan November Christa McAuliffe Educator: Technology EG 188 as catalyst in restructuring Schools. BCS-GM 10/15/81 The Pioneers of BCS Pres. Rotenberg moderates: OHP 166 1981 Part 1 Reflections on the Past and Future BCS-GM 10/15/81 The Pioneers of Panel Discussion Continues OHP 167 1981 Part 2 BCS-GM 2/27/85 Esther Dyson Publisher Release 1.0: Artificial AI 121 Knowledge and the Future of Software BCS-GM 3/27/85 Leonard Tramiel Son of computer legend Jack Tramiel CS 110 presents the new Atari ST Computer BCS-GM 4/24/85 T.Garnett, A. Software Superstars! Lightyear, DB SFT 122 Bosworth, P. Kahn Reflex, Superkey BCS-GM 5/22/85 Charles Foskett CEO Natural Microsystems & creators: CN 119 and colleagues WATSON! Interactive Voice Technology BCS-GM 6/26/85 Trip Hawkins Electronic Arts President challenges CI 106 "home computer" conventional wisdom BCS-GM 8/28/85 Tom Ratigan, Commodore CEO & team present new CS 109 others Amigas, design concepts, new software BCS-GM 9/25/85 Benjamin Rosen, Premier venture capitalist (Compaq, SFT 114 Stephen Dow Lotus): VC and creation of Paradox DB BCS-GM 10/23/85 Tom Snyder Game Designer: Rich, deep, symbolic SFT 112 environment begs users to explore. BCS-GM 11/20/85 Howard Anderson Pres.Yankee Group:The Coming Demise CI 107 of the Personal Computer Industry BCS-GM 12/18/85 S.Kugall, C.Herot, Co-creator Javelin:10 view spreadsheet SFT 115 V.Rayburn, R.Carr Creator Q&A, AI assisted database; BCS-GM 1/22/86 DelG.Hendricks Yocam CreatorExec.VP, Framework, Apple Computer: WP + Macspreadsheet 512+; CS 111 Mac's future; spectacular music. BCS-GM 2/26/86 Ray Kurzweil AI Pioneer: Commercializing Artificial AI 124 Intelligence Mindblowing demos! BCS-GM 3/26/86 Jef Raskin Key Macintosh designer: What Comes SFT 108 After the Personal Computer? BCS-GM 4/23/86 E.Gottheil, B.& L. Creators of Lotus HAL - intelligent SFT 116 Gross, A. Driscoll frontend for 123; Also mktg. strategy. BCS-GM 5/28/86 David Intersimone V.P. Borland:Turbo Prolog (Byte’s SFT 231 Webster raves!); Turbo Lightening BCS-GM 6/25/86 David Blum and Their creators explain and demo SFT 154 Selwyn Rabins MathCAD and Alpha/three BCS-GM 9/24/86 Dan Bricklin, Jona- Co-Creator VisiCalc, Pres. BCS: CI 141 than Rotenberg Suppose you were IBM… BCS-GM 10/22/86 Timothy Leary Harvard Psychologist: Using Computers AI 138 to Help People Think for Themselves The Powersharing Series: Table of Contents Listed by Forum (Venue), then by Date Forum Date Speaker Program Title Key Pgm BCS-GM 11/19/86 Howard Anderson President, Yankee Group: How 1987 CI 140 will look from 1992 BCS-GM 12/17/86 Marvin Minsky Co-founder, MIT AI Lab: Human Intelli- AI 136 gence and the Future of Computers BCS-GM 1/28/87 Ray Kurzweil, AI Pioneer; Chair Stanford U. Comp.Sc. AI 135 Ed.Feigenbaum, Author, Wealth and Poverty: The Age of BCS-GM 2/25/87 Pundits: Alsop II, The Battle of the Pundits: The BCS CI 143 Dvorak, Pournelle, Tenth Anniversary Celebration "Make Preston, Seymour your most outrageous predictions!" BCS-GM 3/25/87 Tom Rattigan and Commodore CEO & Chief Scientist CS 145 Henri Ruben introduce Amiga 500 and Amiga 2000 BCS-GM 4/22/87 Philippe Kahn SuperstarII:"L'enfant terrible of Silicon SFT 148 Valley"(WSJ).Dazzling word processor BCS-GM 5/28/87 Bob Metcalfe Inventor of Ethernet; Founder 3Com: CS 155 Netstations for Workgroup Computing BCS-GM 6/24/87 John Mucci VP, Thinking Machines: The Connection CS 156 Machine; massive parallel processing BCS-GM 9/30/87 John Roach Tandy CEO: New Radio Shack PCs to CS 144 compete head-to-head to IBM BCS-GM 10/13/87 John Sculley Apple's CEO: Reflections: Past, CI 164 Present, Future BCS-GM 11/18/87 Howard Anderson Mkt. research, Pres. Yankee Group: CI 168 The Computer Industry of 1995 BCS-GM 12/3/87 Jim Manzi and Lotus CEO & Creator 123 and Agenda: SFT 169 Mitch Kapor The Future of Lotus 123; Agenda BCS-GM 12/16/87 Ray Kurzweil AI pioneer: reading machine; scanner; AI 170 voice entry expert sys; music BCS-GM 1/27/88 Philippe Kahn Borland's flamboyant Founder: Quatro SFT 171 takes on Lotus 123; Sidekick Plus BCS-GM 2/24/88 Mitch Kapor Creator of Lotus 123 explains his new CI 173 venture, On Technology, and products BCS-GM 3/23/88 Bill Lowe Head of IBM's PC operations: The CS 174 Future of PS/2 and OS/2 BCS-GM 4/27/88 Michael Dell Dell Founder tells the story of Dell CS 179 computers; past, present and future BCS-GM 5/25/88 Esther Dyson Publisher, Release 1.0 "Industry's most CI 180 influential newsletter"(WSJ) Groupware BCS-GM 6/22/88 Nigel Searle Sir Clive Sinclair's colleague: Briefcase CS 183 Computer: no DOS, yet desktop power BCS-GM 9/28/88 Tom Snyder and Educational software pioneers present EG 187 D. Dockterman wise and funny multimedia evening. BCS-GM 10/26/88 Stewart Alsop II Publisher, leading industry newsletter: CI 185 The Future of Operating Systems BCS-GM 11/30/88 Steve Jobs First public intro of NeXT computer- OHP 190 SymHall more extensive than Calif.press intro BCS-GM 12/21/88 Scott Fisher NASA Proj. Dir: Virtual Environment CS 203 Workstation.Why, what, how developed BCS-GM 1/25/89 Mark Epply CEO, Traveling Software: Sharp's coat SFT 205 pocket computer:iPhone premonitions? The Powersharing Series: Table of Contents Listed by Forum (Venue), then by Date Forum Date Speaker Program Title Key Pgm BCS-GM 2/22/89 Frank King, Bill Lotus VP and Project leader present SFT 206 Gross and demo data navigator Magellan BCS-GM 3/22/89 David Wax: IBM + GUI interface, bundled on IBM & com- CN 233 Sears = Prodigy patibles. Challenges CompuServe. BCS-GM 4/26/89 Dan Goldman V.P. Digitalk: Demystifying Object CS 209 Oriented Programming. Smalltalk lang. 209V BCS-GM 5/24/89 Fred Wang CEO Wang Labs: Freestyle: superset of SFT 211 Wang's word processing system BCS-GM 6/28/89 Donald R. Emery CEO Ref.Software:Grammatik III: New SFT 216 grammar checker + SIGGRAPH preview 216V BCS-GM 8/23/89 Stewart Alsop II Newsletter Guru: 25 predictions. Sees CI 217 NeXT as model for other computers BCS-GM 9/24/89 Didier Diaz Project Manager: presents and demon- CS 218 strates impressive Macintosh portable 218V BCS-GM 10/25/89 Nat Goldhaber Serial entrepreneur: Computer CN 220 Networking, Implications for Society BCS-GM 11/29/89 Stav Prodromou Founder presents pocket sized Poqet CS 221 Computer.Runs for 100 hours on 2AAs 221V BCS-GM 12/20/89 SIGGRAPH with Software leader narrates New CI 222 Chris Herot Developments in Computer Graphics BCS-GM 1/24/90 Jim Manzi Lotus CEO&team: 123G:graphical SFT 223 version of a classic; Frankston opens 223V BCS-GM 2/28/90 Gene Banman, Sun Microsystems team demos "4th CS 224 team Wave Computing", SPARCStation 1 224V BCS-GM 3/28/90 Alvy Ray Smith Pixar Co-Founder: Renderman and OHP 225 Desktop Visualization-10 Pixar shorts 225V BCS-GM 4/25/90 David Bunnell Publisher (PC World, Mac World, etc.): CN 226 Bioworld - online info for biotech indus. 226V BCS-GM 5/23/90 Walt Simpson and CEOs Commodore, GoldDisk: Amiga CS 227 David Jones 3000 + Showmaker = Desktop video 227V BCS-GM 8/22/90 S.Arnold, D. Glenn Lucas Arts Pesents! Interactive games; EG 228 T. G ra m a n i THX:sound stage audio quality at home 228V BCS-GM- 11/28/90 Steve Jobs NeXT+Lotus Improv= “the neatest pro- OHP 200 NeXT gram I have ever seen in my life!” Jobs BCS-GM 1/23/91 Jerry Kaplan, Co-founder, Go Corp.; VP Slate Corp: CS 229 Dan Bricklin Pen based Computing. Concepts, demo BCS-IBM 5/7/87 Bill Machrone Editor, PC Magazine: The IBM Personal SFT 149 System 2. Insights and implications BCS-IBM 6/3/87 Bill Gates Co-founder Microsoft: Future CS 150 Developments in Personal Computers BCS-IBM 6/3/87 Bill Gates Future Developments in Personal CS 151 Computers: Q & A. Much on languages BCS-IBM 7/2/87 J.Button, T.Smith, Marketing Shareware Creators PC-File BU 152 Marshall Magee & SW concept; Procomm; Automenu BCS-IBM 9/3/87 Adam Osborne Predictions from the creator of the CI 162 Osborne computer BCS-IBM 10/1/87 Bert Collins Head, BCS DB group: The New SFT 163 Generation of Databases BCS-IBM 1/7/88 Camenker, Mach- What is OS2? Programmer explains; PC CS 172 rone, Belove,Tarter Mag observes; developer; What it isn't The Powersharing Series: Table of Contents Listed by Forum (Venue), then by Date Forum Date Speaker Program Title Key Pgm BCS-IBM 10/6/88 Ed Esber CEO, Ashton-Tate: A-T's Long Range SFT 201 Database Strategy.
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