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“The Incredible Story of SNS and a Kindle”
9 September 2011SNS member Chris Worth, a London-based copywriter and Web marketer, just published “The Incredible Story of SNS and a Kindle,” describing his plunge into the e-reader world for the purpose of getting back into the SNS newsletter. An unsolicited endorsement, much appreciated — and a great read, even for the non-Kindle-anointed among us. Share This [...]
SNS New York Predictions Dinner
23 August 2011Join SNS in New York City, Thursday, December 8th at the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel for dinner and a special conversation with Robert Hormats Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs U.S. Department of State Participants will enjoy a cocktail reception at 6:30 pm, followed by dinner, the unveiling of SNS CEO Mark Anderson’s predictions for [...]
“Saving the Planet by Capturing Carbon:” The Solution
27 May 2011Hosted by Larry Smarr, Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), UC San Diego and Irvine LS: Arctic ice is melting more quickly than we thought. For the last 100,000 years, CO2 has stayed within a very narrow band. As of 2008, it’s in a fairly vertical progression. We need to reduce CO2 [...]
“Looking Further: The World in 20 Years”
27 May 2011A Conversation with David Brin, Scientist, Inventor, and Author; hosted by Glen Hiemstra, Founder and Owner, Futurist.com GH: Imagining it’s 2030, what is happening in the last 20 years? DB: 30 year prediction in science fiction is the most difficult, because people will still be around in 30 years. Half of what you see will be [...]
“Social Networks in Political Change”
27 May 2011A Panel with Jesse Driscoll, Assistant Professor of Political Science, International Relations and Pacific Studies, UC San Diego; and Anas, Syrian blogger, Richard Marshall, hosted by Brett Horvath, Director, Leaders Network BH: Need to get past CNN narrative that this is just about the arab spring, about teenagers with cellphones. JD: Many journalists will say [...]
“Remote Viewing in Underwater Cities”
27 May 2011A Panel with John Delaney, Professor, School of Oceanography and Paros Endowed Chair for Sensor Networks, and Director and PI for the Regional Cabled Observatory of NSF’s OOI; and Doug Stanley, CEO and Co-Founder, Ridgeline Entertainment; on the construction of the world’s first undersea broadband and power-supplied permanent remote sensing network; hosted by Michael Pfeffer, [...]
“Changing Our Buildings vs. Our Climate: From Data Centers to Residences”
27 May 2011A Conversation with Jason Green, Director, Vantage Data Centers; Hank Louis, Founder and Director, DesignBuildBLUFF, College of Architecture + Planning, University of Utah; and Brad Peacock, Principal, DwellTek; hosted by Cynthia Figge, Co-founder and COO, CSRHUB Build wholesale data centers at Vantage. Large amounts of cooling, very discerning customer base, very expensive infrastructure.Can’t ever go [...]
Breakout Session: Advanced Persistent Threats
27 May 2011Moderated by Richard Marshall, Director, Global Cyber Security Management, Department of Homeland Security Marshall: I’m going to go back to 1985, I’m picking that to start because I think that was a watershed time frame when we started to see the rise in the internet (the ARPA net) and it was primarily designed for [...]
CTO Challenge Breakout Session
26 May 2011Carbon approach: sequester carbon, break it down and put into storage. Using other techniques to get carbon output down so that CCS is only part of the problem. Complex challenge with global scope– Local decision making with global implications, timely delivery of solution under question. To actually represent the costs of energy, taxes on energy [...]
Breakout Session: Securing Privacy
26 May 2011The problem is that there is no such thing as a bill of rights for the consumer, and we haven’t come to the point where we have established a legitimate attempt to define the rights of the consumer. This is a political question by nature. The difference in anonymous information and personal identifiable information requires a [...]