TIME PROGRAM SPEAKER
11:30-12:30 Registration and Social Hour
12:30-12:50 Opening Speech Dick Chiu - Conference Chair
12:50-1:20 President Speech Wu Fu Chen - President
Cheng Wu - New President
1:20-1:30 Awards & Recognition(.ppt Files) Henry Teng - SIG Director
1:30-2:00 Keynote Speech Roger Evans
2:00-2:30 Intranet/Extranet Applications Edward Soong
2:30-3:00 Internet Products John Dicker
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-3:45 Internet Technologies(.ppt File) Cheng Wu
3:45-4:15 Trends in Software Development Bob Oberg
4:15-4:45 Reception
6:00 Dinner with Speakers and Members (Ta Sheng in Cambridge)
REGISTRATION FEE: Free for NECINA members & $10.00 for non-members
DINNER FEE: $20.00 per person; Make reservation via E-mail
to chenj@casc.com by 6/13.
PARKING: Free at Broadway Garage - Felton Street (bet.
Cambridge & Broadway), Cambridge
DIRECTIONS: Click here for map
SESSION ABSTRACT AND SPEAKER BACKGROUND
"Keynote Speech"
Mr. Roger Evans is a Director of Ascent Communications and General Partner
of GreyLock Ventures.
"Intranet/Extranet Applications"
Looking back on human history, one sees that we have evolved from an
agricultural society into an industrial society, and from an industrial
society into an enterprise society. Today, we are evolving yet again into
an information society, and at an astonishing rate. The advent of Internet
heralded this latest revolution, and has made a great and accelerated
impact on everyone's life. In this talk, we will examine the applications
of Intranet/Extranet, one of the most important aspect of the revolution of
the information age.
Intranet/Extranet - a powerful tool to automate your business operations
and a competitive necessity for the globe marketplace. Corporate America
is moving "full-speed ahead" towards the implementation of
Intranet/Extranet systems. Those businesses which fail to "surf" this new
wave of technology will certainly be washed away by it.
So, what is Internet/Extranet? Why is it important to most of the
Businesses? How are they deployed? Please join us in this talk to find
some thoughts and answers.
Mr. Edward L.W. Soong is a founder and President of Anew Technology
Corporation in Burlington, Mass. The company's focus is in
Internet/Extranet System Integration and Application Development.
Previously, Ed worked for Wang Laboratories, Inc. as the Senior Director of
Business Development in Asia Operations. Ed has over 28 years of
experience in engineering, management, sales, and marketing in the
Electronics and Information Technology industries. Ed holds a B.S. in
Electronic Engineering, a M.E. in Electrical Engineering, a M.S. in
Computer Science, and a M.B.A.
"Internet Products"
John Dicker from Netscape will share and discuss Netscape Communications
Corporation's Full Service Intranet product strategy and/or LDAP product
strategy and products with members of NECINA.
Mr. John E. Dicker is currently the Senior Systems Engineer for the
Netscape New England Office. He has worked in the computer Industry for
19 years. Prior to joining Netscape. He was a Consultant for AltaVista
products. John holds a B.S. in Computer Science from University of Mass.
"Emerging Internet Technologies"
Present day enterprise network infrastructure is rapidly migrating from old
voice oriented network access and transport to switched digital network
access and transport. This migration is being fueled by the phenomenal
growth of mobile, wireless, and remote communications, and the use of the
Internet as the Information Superhighway and mechanism for electronic
commerce. This migration in infrastructure is taking place at a time when
a number of new technologies are becoming increasingly mature for
deployment.
The scale and technology of the new Internet commerce that will take place
in the next decade will hardly resemble today's. High speed access lines
using ISDN, 56Kbps modem, cable modem and xDSL will become the access
technologies of the next decade while integration of routing and ATM
switching will pave the way for new high speed Internet backbone. New
virtual private network (VPN) services over the Internet will provide
security on public digital switched networks that is only available today
on private networks.
The presentation gives an overview of emerging technologies from desktop,
ISP Point of Presence (POP), Internet backbone to enterprise Virtual
Private Networking as well as the impacts of Telecommunication Act of 1996
to the networking industry and the Internet community as a whole.
Mr. Cheng Wu founded ArrowPoint Communications Inc. of Westford,
Massachusetts in April 17, 1997 after receiving $5.6M first round financing
from Matrix partners and Northbridge venture partners. ArrowPoint is a
high-tech start-up focusing on developing large-scale webswitches that
provide Internet access to large-scale web server farms.
Prior to founding ArrowPoint, Mr. Wu was VP of Remote Access Engineering
and a member of Cascade's Executive Operating Committee, reporting to Dan
Smith, CEO of Cascade Communications.
Prior to joining Cascade Communications in May, 1996, Mr. Wu was a
co-founder and VP of Engineering of Arris Networks Inc., a venture funded
start-up company in Westford, Massachusetts developing carrier class remote
access products for the emerging public Internet access market. Arris
Networks was acquired by Cascade Communications in May, 1996 for $143M.
Prior to that, Mr. Wu served as VP of Engineering for Internetworking and
Access Server products at Xyplex Inc, a $130M business unit of Rathyon
from May 1991 to July 1995. During that period of time, Mr. Wu was
instrumental in Xyplex's entrance into the branch office and departmental
router and intelligent hub business.
Before joining Xyplex in 1991, Mr. Wu served a number of management
positions at Prime/Computervision from 1982 to 1991. He last served as
Corporate Director, Unix and Communications Engineering, where he managed a
very large development group, developing all communications and Unix
products for Prime's $800M minicomputer division.
Mr. Wu holds an M.S.C.S. from Indiana University in 1977 and a B.S.E.E.
from ChiaoTung University, Taiwan in 1972, and has over twenty years of
experience in large-scale product development and management across a wide
spectrum.
"Some Current Trends in Software Development"
This talk surveys some aspects of the current situation in software
development and outlines some important trends. Software continues to
suffer from perennial problems concerning quality, budget and schedule.
In addition there is increasing complexity from the ever increasing feature
sets demanded, graphical user interfaces, and distributed environments.
Two approaches towards making improvements are suggested. One is mastering
the technology of software components, such as Microsoft's Component Object
Model (COM). The other is a broader social and cultural shift towards a
more human-centered value system.
Dr. Robert J. Oberg received A.B. and Ph. D. degrees in Mathematics
from University of California at Berkeley and Harvard University. Taught
Mathematics, Operations Research and Computer Science at Knox College,
University of Pennsylvania and Framingham State College.. Served as
chairman of Computer Science Department. 15 years industrial software
development and consulting experience, including CPU architecture and
performance modeling at Prime Computer, imaging and object management at
Wang Laboratories, and CASE tool development at Cortex Corporation.
Extensive experience with C++, Windows programming and OLE. Developed
courses in C++, Visual C++ and Windows programming with Microsoft
Foundation Classes, OLE, and ActiveX Founded Object Innovations training
and consulting company in 1993.