Until 1998, Dr. Nielsen was a Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer and led that company's Web usability efforts starting with the original design of SunWeb in early 1994. His previous affiliations include the IBM User Interface Institute, Bell Communications Research, and the Technical University of Denmark. He holds 51 United States patents, mainly on ways to make the Internet easier to use. Tuesday, May 1 Amidst unprecedented competition, software vendors are redefining themselves in record time. Enterprise Information Portal vendors cannot break out of the retrieval business.
Most vendors are in e-business, a concept that no longer differentiates.
Jim Bair, Senior Vice President, Strategy Partners International, has over 30 years of leadership experience in the computer industry. He is also a co-founder of Knowledgen, Inc., on the advisory board for several software companies and the Syracuse University School of Information where he also lectures on knowledge management. In the 1970s, he was a Senior Scientist at Stanford Research Institute, serving on the team that invented the mouse, hypertext, and windows. He has published three books, chaired several conferences, published over seventy research papers, and delivered keynote speeches on five continents. Mr. Grasso's keynote will focus not only on describing our vision for a future, internet-enabled enterprise, but also on the steps, systems, and processes that are helping to turn that vision into a reality.