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                                                        The Florida SunFlash

                     Sunergy #7 Satellite Broadcast
                           September 28, 1993

SunFLASH Vol 57 #14                                           September 1993
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57.14   Sunergy #7 Satellite Broadcast September 28, 1993
        Live Satellite Broadcast. Theme is "Cyberjockying in the 21st
        Century".  This next Sunergy live broadcast will focus on the
        issues and technologies surrounding the worldwide movement of
        information.  It will take a look at the internet, information
        suppliers, information retrievers and the other related
        resources.  Discussions will also include regulation and
        security on the internet.
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                  Sunergy #7 Satellite Broadcast
                        September 28, 1993
                        9:00 - 10:45 am PDT
                   Cyberjockying in the 21st Century

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How will supernetworks transport you to the far reaches of the data
galaxy?  What is the current status of the internet and other
"information highways"? What can these "highways" do for you today?

This next Sunergy live broadcast will focus on the issues and
technologies surrounding the worldwide movement of information.  It
will take a look at the internet, information suppliers, information
retrievers and the other related resources.  Discussions will also
include regulation and security on the internet.

Demonstrations will include:
- a live teleconference over workstations between 3-4 geographies
- sending white papers over the vertical blanking interval of a
  satellite signal to various sites
- the use of WAIS to access information
- others TBA

Guests include:

John Gage -        Director of the Science Office, SMCC
Whitfield Diffie - Distinguished Engineer, Security - SMCC
Carl Malamud -     President, Internet Multicasting Service
Brewster Kahle -   President, WAIS Inc

If you wish to downlink this broadcast, please send email to
sunergy@Sun.COM or phone the Sunergy office at +1 415/336-5847

Program is available on satellites over Europe (west, central and east),
Canada, Latin America and the US.

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Biographies:

John Gage
Director, Science Office
Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation

John Gage works for Bill Joy, the Chief Technical Officer of Sun, and
is responsible for Sun's relationships with the world scientific and
public policy communities, international scientific institutions and
groups developing new forms of scientific research involving
computing.

He is on scientific and advisory panels of the United States National
Science Foundation, the US Congress Office of Technology Assessment,
the European institute of Technology and the United States National
Academy of Sciences. He has recently been appointed to the US National
Research Council Mathematical Sciences Education Board.

He is a member of ACM, IEEE, SIAM, AMS, AAAS, and SMPTE.

He attended the Harvard Business School and the Harvard Graduate School
of Public Policy.  He did doctoral work in economics and mathematics at
the university of Berkeley at the same time as Bill Joy.  Gage
subsequently left Berkeley with Joy to start Sun in 1982.

Gage is on the Board of Directors of Unicode, an industry consortium of
IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Novell, Sun, GO Corporation, and others to
provide multilingual capability in all world scripts for all documents
and applications.

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Carl Malamud
President
Internet Multicasting Service

Carl Malamud is the author of seven professional reference books
including STACKS (Prentice Hall), Analyzing Sun Networks (Van Nostrand
Reinhold), and Exploring the Internet: A Technical Travelogue (Prentice
Hall).

Currently, Carl is producing the Internet Town Hall and Internet Talk
Radio series for the Internet Multicasting Service and conducts
research on integration of telephone systems into the Internet.

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Whitfield Diffie
Distinguished Engineer
Sun Microsystems

Whitfield Diffie is best known for his 1975 discovery of the concept of
public key cryptography, for which he was recently awarded a Doctorate
in Technical Sciences (Honoris Causa) by the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology.

For a dozen years prior to assuming his present position in 1991,
Diffie was Manager of Secure Systems Research for Northern Telecom,
functioning as the center of expertise in advanced security
technologies throughout the corporation.  Among his achievements in
this position was the design of the key management architecture for
NT's recently released PDSO security system for X.25 packet networks.

Diffie received a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965.  Prior to becoming
interested in cryptography, he worked on the development of the Mathlab
symbolic manipulation system --- sponsored jointly at Mitre and the MIT
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory --- and later on proof of
correctness of computer programs at Stanford University.  He is the
recipient of the IEEE Information Theory Society Best Paper Award for
1979 and the IEEE Donald E. Fink award for 1981.

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Brewster Kahle
President
Wide Area Information Servers, Inc.

Inventor and architect of the WAIS electronic publishing system,
Brewster Kahle has lead the multi-company effort to build a practical
system for end-users to find and retrieve information from servers
worldwide.  Before this work, he helped design and build parallel
supercomputers at Thinking Machines Corporation.

Brewster was schooled at MIT in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence.
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