Location

    The Aspen Institute
    Aspen Meadows
    Aspen, Colorado
    June 6 - June 9, 1999

The Fifth Annual Workshop on
Frontiers in Distributed Information Systems
FDIS: Aspen '99

Previous
Workshops

Introduction

    FDIS: Aspen '99: The fifth annual workshop on new opportunities at the interface between computing and wide-area communications was held June 6-June 9, 1999 once again at the Aspen Institute Conference Center, in Aspen Colorado. The focus was on the rapidly changing possibilities in the backbone and transport layers of the world's digital networks, and on the new services, new clients, and new communities that are coming into being as a result of their explosive growth. Attendance was limited to less than 50 participants, and the program included short presentations by attendees. The final program of presentation is listed below. You may also wish to explore last year's FDIS: Apsen '98 program and presentations as well.

    Because of the explosion in computing and communication technology, many new products and services are now possible. However, many of the proposed visions for these new products and services are mutually inconsistent and some still have significant technical and social obstacles. Technical elegance will often not be the principal factor in determining success.

    Many of us, in our own organizations, prepare "road-maps" based on our guesses about where technology is going now and in the five to ten year future, using these road-maps to identify critical areas in which research is needed to stay on track. In the summit we will identify and critically examine such issues and opportunities in distributed information systems. The goal is to consider them with more vision and greater technical accuracy than we each bring to the discussion individually.

Conference
Administration

Program & Presentations

    Sunday, June 6, 1999 6:00 pm
     

    Reception

    Monday, June 7 8:00 am
    Topic: Streaming and Wireless
    Moderator: Klaus David    		 Monday, June 7 7:30 pm
    Topic: How Things Scale Up
    Moderator: Rod Goodman

    Software Radio

    Gerhard Fettweiss
    Univ Dresden

    Streaming media HTML

    Ephraim Feig
    IBM Internet Division

    The power of the wireless Pilot PPT

    AS Krishnakumar
    Lucent

    Attendee short presentations:

    Uniform alerting PPT

    Jocelyn Cloutier
    AT&T

    Grass roots wireless MANs PPT

    Brewster Kahle
    Alexa Internet

    The Ninja scaleable infrastructure PPT

    David Culler
    UC Berkeley

    Residential broadband challenges PPT

    Glenn Edens
    AT&T

    Attendee short presentations:

    Computing in 2005 HTML

    Scott Kirkpatrick
    IBM
    Tuesday, June 8 8:00 am
    Topic: Location Sensitive Computing
    Moderator: Norm Schryer    		 Tuesday, June 8 7:30 pm
    Topic: Impact on Society
    Moderator: Laura Buddine

    Location aware delivery of information

    Ralph Meyfarth
    Founder, lesswire AG

    Home networking evaluation

    Dan Duchamp
    AT&T Research

    Active mobile computing PPT

    Chris Schmandt
    MIT Media Lab

    Attendee short presentations:

    Authentication-based services

    Misha Pavel
    AT&T

    Home network appliance

    John Denker
    ATT

    Social Impact on the Internet MSWord

    Ed Tuck
    Falconvest
    Founder, Magellan and Teledesic

    BlueTooth

    Parviz Kermani
    IBM Research

    Attendee short presentations

    Authentication and e-publishing

    Clifford Lynch
    CNI

    The WebTV community

    Laura Buddine
    Iacta

    Internet software communities HTML

    Mitra
    Mitra Consulting

    Personalized news PPT

    Josh Alspector
    Univ of Colorado
    Wednesday, June 9 8:00 am
    Topic: Ad-Hoc Networking
    Moderator: Rich Howard

    The open mind initiative: a collaborative, Internet-based framework for developing "intelligent" software PPT

    David Stork
    Ricoh Silicon Valley

    Network operating systems: JINI and beyond

    Richard Gabriel
    Sun Labs

    Personal post-PC appliances PDF

    Chip Maguire
    Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

    The Jetsend approach to ad-hoc networking HTML

    Peter Williams
    HP Labs UK

    Attendee short presentations:

    Integration of distributed low-cost image sensors

    Shimon Ullman
    Weizmann Institute

    Sensor integration on silicon PPT A PPT B

    Richard Howard
    Lucent

Workshop Attendance

Josh Alspector
University of Colorado
1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway
Colorado Springs, CO 80933
josh@eas.uccs.edu		 Laura Buddine
IACTA
10810 Paramount Blvd.
Downey, CA 90241
laura@iacta.com		 Jocelyn Cloutier
AT&T Labs
75 Willow Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025
jocelyn@att.com
 
David Culler
University of California at Berkeley
626 Soda Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720
culler@cs.berkeley.edu		 Klaus David
IHP
W.-Korsing-Str. 2
Frankfurt (Oder) D-15230, Germany
david@ihp-ffo.de		 John Denker
AT&T Labs Research
180 Park Avenue
Florham Park, NJ 07932
jsd@research.att.com
 
Daniel Duchamp
AT&T Labs Research
180 Park Ave
Florham Park, NJ 07932
duchamp@research.att.com		 Ephraim Feig
IBM
17 Skyline Drive
Hawthorne, NY 10532
feig@us.ibm.com
 		 Gerhard Fettweis
Dresden University of Technology
Helmholtz STR. 18
Dresden D-01062, Germany
fettweis@ifn.et.tu-dresden.de
Paul Fuoss
AT&T Labs Research
180 Park Avenue
Florham Park, NJ 07932
fuoss@research.att.com		 Richard Gabriel
Sun Labs, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
3636 Altamont Way
Redwood City, CA 94062
rpg@steam.stanford.edu
 		 Rod Goodman
California Institute of Technology
1200 E. California Blvd. 136-93
Pasadena, CA 91125
rogo@micro.caltech.edu
Rich Howard
Lucent Technologies
600 Mountain Avenue
Murray Hill, NJ 07974
reh@lucent.com		 Larry Jackel
AT&T Labs Research
100 Schulz Drive
Red Bank, NJ 07701
ldj@research.att.com
 		 Brewster Kahle
Alexa Internet
Bldg 37, Box 29141
San Francisco, CA 94129
brewster@alexa.com
Howard Katseff
AT&T Labs Research
180 Park Avenue
Florham Park, NJ 07932
hpk@research.att.com		 Parviz Kermani
IBM Research
Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
parviz@us.ibm.com
 		 Scott Kirkpatrick
IBM
Route 134
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
kirk@watson.ibm.com
Michael Kocheisen
AT&T Labs Research
75 Willow Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025
mkoch@research.att.com		 Rolf Kraemer
IHP
W.-Korsing-Str. 2
Frankfurt (Oder) D-15230, Germany
kraemer@ihp-ffo.de
 		 Krishna Krishnakumar
Lucent Technologies
600 Mountain Avenue
Murray Hill, NJ 07974
askbl@lucent.com
Clifford Lynch
Coalition for Networked Information
21 Dupont Circle NW
Washington, DC 20036
clifford@cni.org		 Gerald Maguire
Royal Institute of Technology
KTH/IT, Electrum 204
Kista, Stockholm, Sweden
maguire@ih.kth.se
 		 Ralph Meyfarth
Lesswire AG
Walter-Korsing-Str. 2
Frankfurt (Oder) D-15230, Germany
meyfarth@lesswire.de
Mitra
Mitra Internet Consulting
77 Bosque Avenue
Fairfax, CA 94933
mitra@earth.path.net		 Abbas Ourmazd
IHP
W.-Korsing-Str. 2
Frankfurt (Oder) D-15230, Germany
ourmazd@ihp-ffo.de
 		 Howard Page
Sprint Advanced Technology Labs
One Adrian Court
Burlingame, CA 94010
hpage@springlabs.com
Misha Pavel
AT&T Labs
75 Willow Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025
pavel@att.com		 Brian Pinkerton
Excite, Inc.
555 Broadway
Redwood City, CA 94063
bp@webcrawler.com
 		 Jim Pitkow
Xerox PARC
3333 Coyote Hill Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304
pitkow@parc.xerox.com
Ulrich Ramacher
Infineon Technologies
Otto-Hahn-Ring 6
Munich, D-81730, Germany
ulrich.ramacher@mchp.siemen		 Chris Ramming
AT&T Labs Research
75 Willow Road
Menlo Park, CA 94024
jcr@research.att.com
 		 Bethany Robinson
AT&T Labs Research
180 Park Avenue
Florham Park, NJ 07932
bsr@research.att.com
Chris Schmandt
MIT Media Lab
20 Ames Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
geek@media.mit.edu		 Norman Schryer
AT&T Labs Research
180 Park Avenue
Florham Park, NJ 07932
nls@research.att.com
 		 David Stork
Ricoh Silicon Valley
2882 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025
stork@rsv.ricoh.com
Ed Tuck
Falcon Fund
1900 W. Garvey Avenue, South
West Covina, CA 91773
ed@falconvest.com		 Shimon Ullman
Weizmann Institute of Science
The Weizmann Institute
Rehovot, 76100, Israel
shimon@wisdom.weizmann.ac.il
 		 Andreas Weigend
NYU / Stern School of Business
44 West 4th Street
New York, NY 10012
aweigend@stern.nyu.edu
Guenter Weinberger
Infineon Technologies
PO Box 80 09 49
Munich, 81609, Germany
antje.hubacz@infineon.com		 Steve White
IBM Research
30 Saw Mill River Road
Hawthorne, NY 10532
srwhite@watson.ibm.com
 		 Peter Williams
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Filton Road, Stoke Gifford
Bristol, BS34 8QZ, UK
peter_williams@hp.com

Workshop Site & Accommodations

    The workshop was held at Aspen Meadows (the conference center of the Aspen Institute), and rooms were offered at $90/night .

    For pictures, a map, and some background on Aspen Meadows, check out http://www.aspenmeadows.com/.

    The conference room was equipped to handle projection of laptop screen-based presentations, had a T1 Internet connection, in- house PC, and of course the standard overhead projector.

Organizing Committee

    Josh Alspector Abbas Ourmazd John Denker Bob Flynn Dan Huttenlocher
    Univ of Colorado IHP AT&T Polytechnic Univ Cornell Univ
    Rich Howard Scott Kirkpatrick Jim Pitkow Larry Jackel Laura Buddine
    Lucent IBM Xerox PARC AT&T Iacta
    Mike Schwartz Rod Goodman Brewster Kahle Mitra Klaus David
    TradeRoutes Caltech Alexa Mitra Consulting T-Mobil