[Asis-l] SOASIST: Disruptive Technology / September 25 / Dayton

[Glen Horton]

The Southern Ohio Chapter of the American Society for Information
Science & Technology (SOASIST) along with the Miami Valley Computing
Societies announces its Fourteenth Annual Fall Joint Meeting

Wednesday, September 25, 2002
at the David H. Ponitz Center, Sinclair Community College

Just when you thought -
   - you had everything under control,
   - you were making money,
   - you knew what was coming.

Disruptive Technology:
A Panel Discussion on Innovation and Disorder

Disruptive technologies are those so innovative that they go well beyond
typical "better, faster, cheaper" improvements to radically alter (i.e.
"disrupt") business and societal paradigms. Disruptive innovation can
create or destroy the market for entire product lines. Example: The
rapid replacement of the slide rule by the hand-held electronic
calculator quickly ended the slide rule industry.

WLANs: Wireless local area networks, particularly those used in the home
and small offices, may be a disruptive technology that will have the
same impact on the networking industry that wireless phones had on the
telecommunications industry.

Nanotechnology: Researchers in molecular-scale electronics seek to
create computer components -- transistors, memory and wires -- from
individual molecules. What economic and societal changes might follow
100 or 1000 fold increases in storage capacity and CPU speed?

Human-computer interfaces are becoming more intuitive. Haptics, the
science of touch, allows individuals to handle digital objects exactly
as they would objects in the real world. In medicine, doctors practicing
procedures on virtual patients can actually feel resistance with each
incision.

Disruptive innovation is not solely fundamental technical break-throughs
but also the fusion of currently available technologies and methods to
deliver entirely new products and services.

Our distinguished panelists will reveal how they keep abreast of
disruptive technologies in their individual markets and hopefully pass
along a few choice tips for being the innovative technological disrupter
rather than the poor blindsided disruptee.

The Panel
   Moderator:
   Dr. Barbara Smith
   Computer Science, U. D.

   Allan McLaughlin
   CTO & Sr. VP, LexisNexis

   Jeff Almoney
   CTO and VP Application Services, Reynolds & Reynolds

   Colonel Andrew Gilmore
   AFMC Deputy CTO/CIO,
   WPAFB

Dinner reservation $22; $2 for the presentation only

Contact Patricia Carter at 865-6800 x56099 or
Patricia.Carter at lexisnexis.com

Check the program Web site (http://www.soasist.org/mvcs) frequently for
updated information on this program and registration.