Sunday:

• Welcome by Anita Jones and Bill Wulf
• Keynote talk by Bruce Sterling (HTML or as 45 KB PDF)

Monday:

• Technology keynote (excerpts from IBM Global Technology Outlook, delivered by Alfred Spector)
• Alan Kay: Squeak demo
• Initial discussion sessions (each with moderator, recorder)
• Parallel sessions:
  • Augment human cognition
  • Trustworthy systems
  • Ubiquitous computing and communication
• Parallel sessions:
  • Self-* systems (self administering, self repairing, self maintaining, ...)
  • Education
  • Gaining knowledge from data
• Ad-hoc groups to bring forth additional challenge topics in the evening session
• Report out the six discussion sessions by session moderators.
• Also solicited brief presentations of other challenge topics:
  • "The Greater Society" (Alfred Spector)
  • Computers and Health Care (Todd Mowry)
  • B24B -- Useful, affordable IT for poorest 4 billion people on the planet (Tom Kalil)
  • Civil and humane information services (Mary Shaw)
  • Simulated reality (Seth Goldstein)
  • Parallel computing (Uzi Vishkin)
  • Disaster response (Robin Murphy)
  • Managing complexity (Vinod Khosla)
  • Telepresence, enriched communication (Larry Landweber)
• Asked attendees to vote on top five choices, in priority order.
• Program committee met to tally votes, determine schedule for next day.

Tuesday:

• Working sessions with selected topics:
• Systems you can count on (137 KB PDF)
• A teacher for every learner (24 KB PDF)
• 911.net (ubiquitous information systems) (21 KB PDF)
• Augmented cognition (166 KB PDF)
• Conquering complexity (81 KB PDF)
  
• B24B (30 KB PDF)
• Green computing (38 KB PDF)
• Base Case (Gordon Bell) (50 KB PDF)
• Again asked for votes.

Wednesday:

• Working sessions to write up main themes.
• Closing session

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