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sfbay: Oct. 17 - a fascinating Science & Technology Event !

From: Christian Simm, San Francisco <click for textversion of email address >
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 12:07:41 -0700
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Dear All,
We are happy to announce our next Science & Technology event (sorry if
you receive this message for the second time) ...

EARLY COMPUTER MOUSE ENCOUNTERS (Oct. 17, 2001)

Join five pioneers of the computer mouse - three of whom are Swiss - and
listen to their insider stories of how the concepts came about and were
implemented, in a fascinating conference co-organized by The Computer
Museum History Center (http://www.computerhistory.org) and the Swiss
Science and Technology Office in San Francisco
(http://www.sciencelink.org).

Panel discussion with Daniel Borel, Bill English, Stuart Card, Niklaus
Wirth and Jean-Daniel Nicoud.

________________________________________________________________

MENU :
- Date & time
- Location
- Speakers
- Reservations
- Sponsors
- Directions
- October 23 event
________________________________________________________________

DATE & TIME
---------------------
Wednesday October 17, 2001
6:00 - 7.30pm Panel Discussion
7:30 - 8.30pm Reception in the lobby of the Auditorium

LOCATION
-----------------
Xerox PARC, Pake Auditorium
3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA, phone (650) 812-4000
Map available at http://www.parc.xerox.com/location.html

SPEAKERS
---------------
To find out more about the speakers, check our webpage at :
http://www.ScienceLink.org/topic/computerhistory_03.htm

RESERVATIONS
-----------------------
Advance reservations by October 15, 2001 are required. We expect a full
house, so please don't wait too long before registering on-line at:
http://www.computerhistory.org/events/lectures/ECME_10172001/

SPONSORS
----------------
This event is made possible with the support of PRS Presence Switzerland
(http://www.switzerland-in-sight.ch), an official body of the Swiss
Confederation promoting the worldwide dissemination of general knowledge
about Switzerland.
The reception is sponsored by The Zurich Network
(http://www.zurichnetwork.ch), which helps you create your own success
story : the Information and Communication Technology Industry in
Switzerland is still going strong. Is your company going to be part of
it ?
The conference will be video-recorded and made available for web
streaming by Spotlife (http://www.spotlife.com), a leading provider of
integrated personal video solutions.

DIRECTIONS
-------------------
>From San Francisco:
- take Freeway 101 north to Highway 380
- take Highway 380 to Highway 280
- take Freeway 280 south toward San Jose
- exit at Page Mill Road and make a left turn, toward Palo Alto
- make a right turn at Coyote Hill Road
- Xerox PARC is on the left, just past the crest of the hill
- Pake Auditorium is located to the left of the main entrance down the
stairs

>From San Jose:
- take Freeway 280 north toward San Francisco
- exit at Page Mill Road and make a right turn, toward Palo Alto
- make a right turn at Coyote Hill Road
- Xerox PARC is on the left, just past the crest of the hill
- Pake Auditorium is located to the left of the main entrance down the
stairs

OCTOBER 23 EVENT
-------------------------------
Please save the date for a special reception and exhibit of computer
artifacts from Switzerland at The Computer Museum History Center's
Fellow Award Banquet starting at 6:00pm on October 23, in San Jose, CA !

Regards,
Christian
_______________________________________________________________

Christian Simm, PhD
Swiss Science & Technology Office for Western USA and Western Canada

c/o Consulate General of Switzerland
456 Montgomery Street, Suite 1500
San Francisco, CA 94104 (USA)
phone : (415) 788-2272, extension 107 (direct) or 0 (operator)
fax : (415) 788-1402
e-mail : christian.simm_at_sciencelink.org
website : http://www.sciencelink.org
_______________________________________________________________

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