[Chapters-l] SOASIST 9/25 Disruptive Technologies

[Carter, Patricia Jean (LNG)]

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.


Patricia J. Carter
Manager - Technical Library
LexisNexis, B6/F1/Room 82
9595 Springboro Pike
Miamisburg, OH 45342
phone: (937) 865-6800 x56099
fax: (937) 865-1655 to my attention