The Data Center

the mit data center - update meeting for sponsors

and invited guests

(to receive an invitation, please contact Ed Schuster at edmund_W@mit.edu)

June 14 & 15, 2006

MIT - Cambridge, MA (June 14 & 15) in the Miller Room, 1-114

Dinner, June 14 - Legal Sea foods (6:00 PM)

Total registration limited to 12 people.

To register, click on Sponsor Meeting

Highlights

-- Review of technical progress for the M Language, including Dictionary and Rules Development

   -- Update on plans for applications of the M Language

   -- Special guest speaker on the capabilities of sensing technology



   -- Networking opportunities

   -- An opportunity for open discussion concerning the direction of the MIT Data Center, including priorities for future applications and commercial development

Agenda at a Glance

June 14

7:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast.

8:30 Review of Technical Development

             David Brock

             Director, the MIT Data Center

             Principal Research Scientist

             Massachusetts Institute of Technology

             Dr. Brock's Background

9:45 Break

10:00 The M Language and Existing Standards

Dave Brock, MIT

11:00 Break

11:30 Applications: Multi-Lingual Display of Documents

Edmund W. Schuster

Co-Director, The Data Center

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mr. Schuster's Background

12:00 Applications: Agricultural Data and Risk

Edmund W. Schuster, MIT

12:30 Lunch

1:30 House_n - The Future

House_n is a Department of Architecture research group at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology that explores how new technologies,

materials, and strategies for design can make possible dynamic, evolving

places that respond to the complexities of life. Part of this work involves the

advanced use of sensor technologies

Kent Larsen

Principal Investigator

Director of House_n/OSBA

MIT Department of Architecture

2:45 Break

3:15 Applications: Engineering Marketing Science

Edmund W. Schuster, MIT

3:45 Break and Networking

5:00 Adjourn

6:30 Dinner (Legal Sea Foods, Cambridge Center)

June 15

8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast.

9:00 Review of Thesis Work: 1) Spatial Data and 2) Agriculture

9:45 Break

10:00 Open Sponsor Discussion on Direction of the MIT Data Center and

the M Language, including opportunities for commercialization during

the second half of 2006.

12:30 Lunch

1:30 Adjourn

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