The Internet has changed. Processing and bandwidth is increasingly cheap, plentiful, and diverse. This represents a spectacular opportunity for tools to evolve. For professional and enterprise applications, the challenge and opportunity is to economically author and commercially distribute new kinds of software and digital media. For personal applications like art and science, research and scholarship, and everyday communicating, the opportunity is for our tools to become increasingly simple and ubiquitious.
Commercial success is inseparable from physically actualizing ideas.
Thus, this session explores enabling interface technologies, network software systems, products, and business models for the automated authoring and netcasting of dynamic media and customized applications via the Internet. Prior to that, he led product marketing at Apple Computer for QuickTime. In that time, he brought the industry-leading multimedia software to PCs by implementing Apple's QuickTime for Windows project. Mr. Kennedy also served as Apple's multimedia Evangelist. QuickTime became the most widely distributed software product in Apple history.