Starting at 10:15, Brenda Bell , a veteran of the online-database

production industry, explains the difference between a portal and

a vortal, and how to find information quickly and efficiently. She

repeats this session at the same time on Sunday.

Wehrhahn of Application Technologies gives advice on taxes and

bookkeeping to consultants and would-be consultants. He has been out

on his own for three years. It’s at 11:20 a.m. He repeats this on

Sunday at 2 p.m.

will incorporate the principles of classical rhetoric in a workshop

entitled "Designing Websites To Inform and Persuade."

the delicate question of how to get a job in an Internet-related

company

after the dotcom crash. The answer, he says is to go after an IT/web

job. Critical knowledge areas include Cisco routers and firewalls;

Oracle, Siebel, Sybase, and SAP databases; C/C++ and Java; Unix and

Linux; and Asp, Cold Fusion, Perl, and XML. His remarks will be short,

and he will spend the rest of the time giving free, one-minute reviews

of resumes. Hsu teaches advanced webmaster development tools in Room

4 at 3:40 p.m.

basics with an introduction to the Internet and a question-answer

session ending the day’s Internet track at 3:40 p.m.

Wetterling has also been tapped to discuss "Dynamic Planning for

Autonomous Robotics," geared for both computer scientists and

anyone with an interest in robotics. He speaks both Saturday and

Sunday

at 1:30 p.m.

Room 2: Varied Themes.

can tell them how to use their Palms as a computer. He wrote "The

Ultimate Modem Handbook," published by Prentice Hall.

design of the world’s first commercial home satellite TV receiver,

now uses microwave technology to search for intelligent life in space,

the SETI Project Argus. 11:20 a.m.

On a more mundane level, Gary Deckelnick of the Asbury Park

Press tells how to organize your hard drive at 12:25 p.m. Randall

Whittle gives a similar seminar on Sunday in Room 2 at 10:30 a.m.

California share a lectern at 1:30 p.m. to make the case for an

electronic

post office that would provide digitally watermarked electronic

postmarks,

digitally-watermarked copyright-registrations from the Library of

Congress, and digital tickler files to advise periodically every

person

whose private data has been either requested or released.

on technology subjects for U.S. 1 Newspaper, tells about

"Streaming

Media on Your Desktop" at 3:40 p.m. Learn about the three major

streaming formats — Apple QuickTime, RealNetworks RealMedia, and

Microsoft Windows Media — and their associated compression

algorithms.

"We will then discuss and demonstrate desktop tools for converting

and producing your own streaming media files," says Dixon.

Room 3: Fun and Games

Sragow , a character actor and club member from New York. "Even

if you can’t draw a wobble-free period, your pictures can be replete

with resplendent colors, perfect shapes,lines, dazzling typography

and calligraphy," he promises. "You can also rearrange and/or

re-size any components until the final depiction represents precisely

what you had in mind. Those interested in establishing a personal

web page will find these programs an easy way to quickly get

impressive

images up there while struggling to master the mysteries and esoterica

of HTLMese." He repeats this on Sunday at 2:50 p.m.

videography

will be on the agenda at 11:20 a.m., led by Randall Whittle ,

a well-known speaker with an MBA from the University of Southern

California.

He repeats the seminar in Room 1 at 2 p.m. on Sunday.

Jeff Posdamer , for a reprise of their popular Computer Graphics

Theater — commercial graphics for television and movies,

scientific

visualization, and current computer graphics research.

speaks at 1:30 p.m. In a lecture entitled "The Theremin: Music

from the Ether, Analog, and now Digital Domains," he will explain

that the Theremin was the first electronic musical instrument and

is still the only instrument played without touching it. Invented

eighty years ago in Russia as vacuum tube radio circuits, it was

transistorized

in America and is now available as a digital MIDI device. Marshall

will perform on the "Etherwave" instrument currently

manufactured

and marketed by electronic music pioneer Robert Moog.

games for the Nintendo Color Gameboy, will showcase the new Advanced

Gameboy machine at 3:40 p.m. Last year he was the first to demonstrate

the new PS2 Sony Playstation. He will also demonstrate some of the

latest generation of quality games and discuss Microsoft’s entry into

the field, the "X-Box".

Room 4: Software & Systems.

Independence Way starts off at 10:15 a.m. Heffner created XTRAN, a

proprietary expert system for symbolic translation of computer

languages.

His subject: "Cable and DSL Internet Connections: Implementation

and Security." He repeats the seminar on Sunday at 10:30 a.m.

Opening Up Shop Online: Understanding the Credit Card Industry and

its Business Risks" in a 12:25 p.m. talk. He is the chief

technical

architect at Retail Decisions, the London-based world leader in

payment

card fraud detection and teaches at the Rutgers University Internet

Institute.

shouldn’t count votes at 1:30 p.m. Internet voting, said Mercuri in

Doug Dixon’s November 15, 2000, story for U.S. 1, is "chilling.

It will compromise voter anonymity and auditability. It would solve

the recount problem, because we won’t be able to do a recount."

Her website: mainline.brynmawr.edu/~rmercuri. See also

www.princetoninfo.com/200011/01115c01.html.

Room 5: Using Technology

Network, tells how to use the Internet as a marketing vehicle to

supplement

your existing marketing efforts at 10:15 a.m. in Room 5. He repeats

this on Sunday in Room 3 at 10:30 a.m.

Bergsman of the County College of Philadelphia at 11:20 a.m. The

author of a book by that name will use live demonstrations to show

how to control lights, stepping motors, and even the kitchen coffee

pot. Also how to input temperature, motion, stress, and pressure,

for data logging, and analysis. He repeats this on Sunday, in Room

3 at 11:40 a.m.

Bergsman then takes the 12:25 p.m. time slot to tell how high

schoolers

(and their parents) can incorporate computers in Science Fair and

Science-Olympics projects. He repeats this on Sunday in Room 3 at

2 p.m.

photography.

At 3:40 p.m. learn about "Neural Networks For Stock Market

Timing"

from Donn Fishbein.

Room 6: Education

on microcomputers will be covered by Herman Hinitz of HBH

Associates

at 10:15 a.m.

covers which websites and software are best for children from

kindergarten

through eighth grade. Kaplan’s Computers and Kids Summer Camp is among

the longest running in the region, and she consults to Microsoft for

both children’s software and for website design. E-mail:

evalkaplan@cs.com.

This repeats on Sunday in Room 3 at 12:50 p.m.

tells how to supervise student technology teams at 12:25 p.m. She

repeats this on Sunday in Room 2 at 11:40 a.m.

17 books online with X-libris, will give the inside view of this new

"print on demand" industry at 3:40 p.m. He is with the Ben

Weber Foundation.

Zelda Provenzano has another update on E-book technology on

Sunday at 12:25 p.m.

Room 7: Hardware

at 10:15 a.m. Orlando used to be a retail salesperson for Comp-USA

and a help desk agent for IBM and now teaches at a New York technology

high school. At 11:20 a.m. he tells how to buy the peripherals —

the printer, the scanner, etc.

is the topic for Marty Fries of TeamCom at 12:25 p.m. Fries

wrote "The MP3 and Internet Audio Handbook" and will share

his views on copyright laws. A resident of Laurel, Maryland, he

founded

www.imagimedia.net. He repeats this on Sunday at 12:50 p.m. in Room

4.

At 3:40 p.m. Ray Lazinski of Wyncote Instrumentation explains

how, with GPS (Global Positioning Systems), you may never get lost

again.

Rooms 8 & 9: Networks, Databases, Systems

The presentations include sessions on C++, home networks, DreamWeaver,

Linux, knowledge management for small business owners, and the

importance

of metadata in the Digital Age.

Triveni Digital on Washington Road. His subject is metadata —

large amounts of data that could be text-based or image-based, or

any information that describes important features of data succinctly.

He will address such issues as syntax, extraction, presentation, and

archiving metadata.

Room 10: Amateur Radio

license testing area. Now is the chance for dozens of ham radio

wanna-bes

to get tested.

and Brian Boccardi of the ACGNJ will be on a panel discussing

new digital modes of transmission.

the founder of Linearizer Technology on Nami Road, will have the last

word at 2 p.m. He is co-founder of the Trenton Computer Festival,

festival director for 20 years, and co-director this year. His topic:

bouncing radio signal off the moon, and he will play tapes of radio

echoes from the moon. It’s the latest up-to-date hobby and

techno-sport

— Moonbounce.

— Barbara Fox

Corrections or additions?

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