The Crowd and the Cloud Symposium

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GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY’S COMMUNICATION, CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM PRESENTS

A SYMPOSIUM ON
THE CROWD AND THE CLOUD: INNOVATION, COLLABORATION AND THE NEXT PHASE OF COMPUTING

9:00 AM – 3:00 PM, TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 2010
COPLEY HALL, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MAIN CAMPUS

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Companies and nations around the world are racing to invent, develop, and market new products and services—at an ever-increasing pace—leading to more and more focus on innovation and how to foster it. This symposium will explore how new developments in information technology and communications are enabling innovation to occur online, across national, corporate, and organizational boundaries. Social media are connecting people to each other, enabling them to share ideas and information more quickly. Crowdsourcing is enabling researchers and corporations to tap the time and talent of tens of thousands of people to do everything from classify galaxies to decipher protein structures to make more accurate street maps. The Cloud computing is enabling teams to collaborate more effectively and analyze gigantic data sets. Virtual worlds, such as Second Life, are providing a new platform for brainstorming, training, and simulation.

9:00 - 9:10 AM -- OPENING COMMENTS

9:10 – 10:20 AM – Livin’ Online – The Internet as a Place
Moderator:
William Wulf, Professor of Computer Science, University of Virginia, and former President, National Academy of Engineering
Panelists:
Norman Whitaker, Deputy Director, Transformational Convergence Technology Office (TCTO), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Dan Burton, SalesForce.com
Frank Ambrose, Linden Lab

Ask most 50-year-olds about the Internet and they’ll mention “sending e-mail” and Web pages. They see the Internet as a means for delivering information—a substitute for the postal system, brochures, and maybe television. Ask a 15-year-old about the Internet and they’ll talk about “hanging out with their friends” in an online game or online chatroom or Skype, in much the same way they hang out at the shopping mall. Companies and organizations are starting to realize that the Internet is a place for collaboration and community—not just communication and content.

Check out Norman Whitaker's presentation slides

10:20 -- 10:35 AM -- NETWORKING BREAK

10:35- NOON Enabling Collaborative Innovation on the Net: People, Policies, and Practices
What are the technological building blocks needed for this new mode of collaboration? Which companies are leading in the development and use of these new tools—and who is defining the standards for the Cloud, social media, and online collaboration platforms? What are the barriers—cultural, organizational, economic, and policy—that could hinder developments in this area? How could online collaboration change education or the kind of education that students need?
Panelists:
Randy Bass, CNDLS, Georgetown University
David Mihalchik, Federal Business Development Executive, Google
Jason Langsner, TechAmerica

NOON-12:45 LUNCH

12:45- 1:30 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Jeannette Wing, Assistant Director, Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate, National Science Foundation

1:30 – 2:20 BREAK-OUT TABLE DISCUSSION
Topics include:
Crowdsourcing
Social media
Privacy, Confidentiality, Security, and Liability
Deal with the Data Deluge/Big Data
Online Collaboration and the Arts
Government 2.0
Semantic Web and metadata
Virtual worlds
Collaborative bibliographies
“Second Earth” - Augmented reality, Presence, and Geo-location
Where’s the Money? - New Business Models
International issues
Lessons from Online Games
Research on Cyberinfrastructure
Creating a Culture of Collaboration

2:20 - 2:50 PM REPORT BACK

2:50 – 3:00 PM WRAP-UP AND THANK YOUS

SPONSORED BY CCT AND THE GEORGETOWN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION