Monday, March 5 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Session A: Peer-to-Peer as a Distributed Computing Environment In some circles, “Distributed Computing” is the hidden secret weapon in the Peer-to-Peer computing space. Imagine turning every desktop PC into a networked gang of servers, sharing their storage space and processing power, a daisy chain harnessing the power of a supercomputer. It could, dare we suggest, change the world! And that’s only the beginning. New companies are sprouting every day, experimenting with new applications in distributed computing. For example, the advent of distributed computing promises to open a whole new generation of media applications including fast web page view, more complex web page graphics and new media such as scalable virtual reality - all as shared, synchronized peer-to-peer applications. In this session we will discuss how distributed computing may be ushering in a new generation of web media and how that media will change existing business models - and enable a few new ones. Dr. Andrew Chien, Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder, Entropia David Cummings, President & CEO, Tpresence Nelson Minar, CTO, Popular Power Jeff Lund, Vice President Business Development & Corporate Marketing, Echelon Jeff Barker, Director, Product Marketing, Packeteer Greg Bolcer, co-founder & Chief Technology Officer, Endeavors Technology Andrea Williams Rice, Managing Director, Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown Harris Hall, Vice President Finance, Distributed Science, Moderator Andrea Williams Rice, Managing Director, joined Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown in January 2000 as a senior analyst covering Internet Media & Services sector. Andrea focuses on Internet portals and outsourced services and is expanding her coverage to include wireless and next generation content, peer-to-peer networks, and digital content management. Andrea has spent the past five years covering Internet and technology stocks, with an emphasis on content and commerce, most recently at E-Offering and before that at Volpe Brown Whelan. She has prior work experience as a management consultant at both McKinsey & Co. and Theodore Barry & Associates. Andrea earned an MBA from Stanford University and a BA in economics from Yale University. David Cummings, President & CEO, Tpresence: Most recently the Chief Technology Officer of Oxygen Media, Inc., David Cummings brings to Tpresence more than twenty-two years' experience at the cutting edge of the New Economy. Mr. Cummings has worked within Fortune 500 information technology business development, mergers and acquisitions due diligence, and business process/methodology engineering. He serves on the boards of directors or advisory boards of many emerging technology companies. Prior to Oxygen Media, Inc. Mr. Cummings was Managing Partner at Proxicom, Inc. a leading Web Application Developer and E-commerce Management Consulting Firm. Mr. Cummings was also President & COO of CoVision Consulting Group, a Data Warehousing Applications Development Systems Integration firm concentrated on Fortune 100 clientele. Earlier in his career Mr. Cummings worked under Steve Jobs at Apple Computer, Inc., where he was a member of the team that developed HyperCard, a milestone computing application that bridged the Internet to desktop computing. A native of Pittsburgh, PA, Mr. Cummings holds an M.S. in Telecommunication Management from the FU Foundation School of Engineering at Columbia University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University. Jeff Lund, Vice President Business Development and Corporate Marketing, Echelon: Mr. Lund, who has been with the company since 1991, has held positions in product marketing, corporate marketing, and business development, most recently as director of business development and corporate marketing. Prior to joining Echelon, Mr. Lund was a staff engineer at ROLM Corporation. He has a Master of Business Administration degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California at Davis. Mr. Lund also serves on the Board of Directors of the Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) Inc., a non-profit industry group working to define and promote an open standard for connecting the coming generation of smart consumer and small business appliances with commercial Internet services Dr. Andrew Chien, Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder, Entropia: For more than 15 years, Andrew Chien has been a global leader in research and development of networks and network interfaces; the integration of communication and computation in high performance; and the compilation techniques for high performance object systems. Currently, Dr. Chien is the chief technology officer and co-founder of Entropia, Inc., a company creating the world’s largest Internet and enterprise distributed computing service by converting the idle time of PCs into large-scale computer power via the Internet. As CTO, Chien created the technology vision for the Entropia network and oversees its refinement and developments in the software that will enable Entropia members to use their PCs’ idle time, both flexibly and efficiently, to support a wide range of "great cause" and commercial computations. Prior to Entropia, Chien was the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) chair professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego during which time he held joint appointments with both the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI), working on large-scale clusters. At the NCSA, Chien designed the tightly coupled NT Supercluster in 1998, a 256-processor system, which at the time was the largest commodity software and hardware based computing system in the world. From 1990 and 1998, Chien was a professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where he held appointments at the NCSA and the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering. During his tenure at the University of Illinois, Chien built a successful research program involving over 15 people. His work garnered millions of dollars of research support from four federal agencies and six companies, based on his high impact, practically significant work on distributed computing, networking, network interfaces and object oriented programming. In 1996, Chien took a one-year sabbatical as a visitor at Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories in Palo Alto. At Hewlett-Packard, he developed innovative technologies for the World Wide Web, including a Web content translation system, which supports handheld Internet devices such as cellular phones and palmtop devices. Chien has authored more than 70 research papers and book chapters on networks, architecture, compilers and programming languages. He has been awarded honors and grants from various institutions and corporations including XEROX and the National Science Foundation. His students have become prominent contributors at start-ups, large corporations and in academia. In addition, Chien serves on numerous program committees and was the program chairman for the 1999 ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on the Principles and Practice or Parallel Programming and the program vice chair of the 1995 IEEE International Parallel Processing Symposium. Chien received his undergraduate, master’s and doctorate degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nelson Minar, CTO and Co-founder, Popular Power: As chief technology officer and co-founder of Popular Power, Nelson guides the company's technical vision and ensures the integrity of the system. Nelson came to Popular Power from the MIT Media Lab, where he received a master's degree after studying in the Software Agents group with Pattie Maes. He served as the lead designer and implementer of Hive, an open-source, distributed object framework for networking software and embedded devices. Prior to his time at the Media Lab, Nelson spent three years at the Santa Fe Institute. While there, he created Swarm, an open-source, object-oriented simulation toolkit that greatly advanced the state of the art in agent-based models of complex systems. Jeff Barker, Director, Product Marketing, Packeteer: Barker joined Packeteer in 1998 after four years with Seagate Software and NetLabs. While at Seagate and NetLabs, he was a product manager for NerveCenter and also served as Director of Information Technology before joining product management. Prior to Seagate and NetLabs, Barker served in a variety of technical capacities with Cadence Design Systems. Barker is a frequent product and technical speaker at major industry shows and conferences, having spoken most recently at such shows as Networks Telekom UK 2000, Microsoft/Compaq 1999 and Comnet 1999. He has also been a speaker at the Citrix iForum 1998, HP Openview Forum 1998, HP Openview Forum 1997, Networld Interop Atlanta 1997 and Networld Interop Vegas 1997. Barker has also participated in various technical seminars including HP/Packeteer, Network World, QoS Forum, iBand, and Nisho (Japan). Greg Bolcer is a co-founder of Endeavors Technology, Inc. and is currently its Chief Technology Officer. At Endeavors Technology, Dr. Bolcer founded the Magi project, a lightweight, open source thin server infrastructure for forming ad hoc, peer-to-peer networks and accessing embedded systems through standard Web protocols. Prior to co-founding Endeavors Technology, Dr. Bolcer's research team at UCI received $4 million in grants from the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA). His project at one point was the largest Java-built, non-Sun Microsystems project in the country. He is one of the key working group participants and co-author for the widely supported Simple Workflow Access Protocol (SWAP/WF-XML) extensions to HTTP/1.1 and WebDAV (the Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning Protocol). Dr. Bolcer has a Ph.D. and B.S. degree in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and a M.S. degree from the University of Southern California (USC). Harris Hall, CFA is a co-founder of Distributed Science, Inc. and is currently its VP of Finance. At Distributed Science, Harris runs business operations including client service and financial accounting. Prior to co-founding Distributed Science, Harris attended the Stern school of business at NYU focusing on Finance and Information Technology management. While attending Stern, Harris also worked for Bear Stearns in their equity research department covering both Internet and Internet infrastructure firms. Prior to that Harris worked for First Quadrant, a quantitative institutional investment management firm in Pasadena. Harris holds a Charter Financial Analyst designation and a B.S. degree in Economics from Colorado College.