Reception and Technology Fair: February 14, 2001
Overview | Video | Demonstrators
Technology Demonstrators
Accenture (Formerly Andersen Consulting): Accenture will demonstrate on-line voter registration features, election site management system and web site for citizens on voting employed by the Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa -- assuring a fair and free election in South Africa.
American Foundation for the Blind: AFB will demonstrate how digital technology such as e-books and talking books can enhance the lives of individuals with disabilities.
AOL Time Warner: AOL-TV (Interactive Television) will demonstrate its new interactive service designed to enhance the television viewing experience and make the TV more entertaining and useful for millions of consumers.
Apple Computer: Apple will demonstrate how students and small businesses can share and access media rich content while exchanging feedback in real-time through a wireless connection. The demonstration will include Apple's new Titanium PowerBook G4.
Complient Corporation: Complient will demonstrate Internet-based technology that helps government agencies minimize the burden of their regulations, drive effective compliance and helps organizations automate the compliance business process.
Copyright Clearance Center: CCC will demonstrate its product, Rightslink, which allows online consumers to instantly use copyrighted content after entering into a license agreement. The demo will show how consumers can utilize this technology to obtain material from the Wall Street Journal online.
Digital Signature Trust: Digital Signature Trust will demonstrate how Public Key Infrastructure technology can be easily used to securely access and allow digital signing of information.
Encirq Corporation: Encirq will demonstrate its data engine that delivers individualized, consumer-centered personalized content over the Internet in a way that preserves consumer privacy.
Ericsson/Bluetooth: Ericsson will demonstrate Bluetooth Wireless Technology, a protocol that enables portable and stationary communications devices to communicate without the use of cables.
et3 with Polycom: et3 will demonstrate distance learning over the broadband Internet for purposes of workforce training.
GetNetWise: GNW will demonstrate its online resource for parents and caregivers that provides an online safety guide; how to identify and report online trouble to law enforcement and national child advocacy groups; a database of 140 filtering, blocking and monitoring tools; and, links to some of the best Web sites for kids.
Global Information Locator Service (GILS), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS): UDDI enables a new "Yellow Pages" for a Web directory of business services, enhanced with actual interface specifications for automating services.
GlobalLearningSystems: GLS will demonstrate e-Learning and web-enabled learning including CD, I-DVD, video and Web products. All products can be used to enhance employee performance in either a workplace, government or school environment. They will highlight lifelong learning facilitated by the Internet and new media.
Infraworks: Infraworks will demonstrate its Digital Property ProtectionTM technology which stops the unauthorized redistribution and copying of digital property (music, books, video, documents) online by enforcing restrictions on digital files sent to, or downloaded by, people online. With Infraworks, creative and intellectual property owners can control who receives the file, how many times the file can be opened and whether or not the contents of the file can be printed, copied or forwarded.
Iridian Technologies: Iridian will demonstrate biometric technology that enables safe and secure access to buildings and networks.
MDL Information Systems, a Reed Elsevier company: MDL Information Systems will demonstrate its online database of toxic chemicals and compounds that allow researchers to review information, including journal articles and research results, to determine what compounds and chemicals have toxic and other harmful effects.
Microsoft Corp: Microsoft will demonstrate its P3P Privacy technology and some handheld technologies.
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children: NCMEC will demonstrate its CyberTipline -- an online reporting form for child sexual exploitation (enticement, pornography, molestation). Funded by Congress and operated in cooperation with the FBI, U.S. Customs Service, and U.S. Postal Inspection Service. This is the reporting mechanism for ISPs to report child pornography per a 1999 federal law.
NIC: NIC, an eGovernment provider, will demonstrate how it is transforming the relationships between citizens, businesses, and government through Web-enabled solutions. The company will show how it helps hundreds of state and local agencies serve more than 44 million people in the United States and Canada, without raising taxes and in ways that promote privacy.
Panasonic / Matsushita Electric: Panasonic will provide its vision for "Digital Networking for Life" - demonstrating a seamless network of digital products that provide consumers with access to digital content in an environment where copyright is well protected, featuring the tiny SD ("Secure Digital") Memory Card. The demonstration will also highlight an "AVPC" computer connected to fashionable e-wearTM portable music players, digital cameras, and camcorders, all connected to the Internet via a home networking gateway.
Peer3: The demonstrating will show how Peer3's use of XML-based learning technologies is being employed to add true functionality to eLearning (i.e., Web-based or computer-based learning applications and processes) and knowledge management(KM) (i.e., capturing, organizing, storing and sharing knowledge and experiences of individual workers and groups).
Pegasus Communications: Pegasus will demonstrate high speed Internet access using two-way satellite communications without the need for terrestrial land line.
Pitney Bowes, Inc.: Pitney Bowes will demonstrate two products that help bridge the digital divide between the worlds of paper and electronic messaging. ClickStamp Online permits users to generate, address and print postage securely using a PC and standard inkjet or laser printer. Digimarc is an innovative way to embed digital watermarks on envelopes (or other paper) bridging regular mail with the Web a camera linked to a PC reads the Digimarc and opens a browser to the linked Web page.
Privada: Privada will demonstrate Digital Privacy Infrastructure for enterprises. By licensing Privada Network, privacy can be built into all aspects of the user's online experience. Individuals control their level of privacy from initial web activity through online purchases to distribution and fulfillment.
RIAA: The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) will be supporting three technology demonstrations from Echo Networks, EMI and Universal Music Group:
- Echo Networks, an interactive streaming music community, will demonstrate the Echo Music Messenger, a web-based streaming music player and communication platform. Echo will also demonstrate a soon to be launched version of the Echo service that integrates digital music lockers and streaming subscriptions with its current ratings-based Internet radio product.
- EMI Christian Music Group will demonstrate how it is utilizing the Internet to deliver musical performances and sheet music to faith-based community groups around the country
- Universal Music Group will be demonstrating new technologies related to subscription services and other new delivery systems for the largest music catalog in the country.
SAIC: Science Applications International Corporation's (SAIC) Health Solutions Sector will demonstrate their unique capabilities to collaborate with the federal government in providing clinical informatics solutions via the Internet. The Integrated Clinical Data Base(ICDB) demonstration will exhibit the potential for Health Care Providers to serve the public interest by providing a powerful and data rich clinical repository that will aid clinicians in managing individual patients while also facilitating the transition to population based prevention, wellness, and chronic disease management.
SAP Public Services, Inc.: SAP will demonstrate its constituent portal for a virtual city where citizens and businesses can register and then access different services via the Internet such as drivers license applications, parking stickers, complaints et al. A voice recognition system allows access for visually impaired people and an interface to wireless protocols allows access via Palm Pilots, IPACs and other mobile devices (e.g. WAP phones).
Silver Tech/eKids Internet: eKids will demonstrate its private online network that is safe, secure and fun for children.
Sony: Sony will demonstrate three technologies: 1) Evilla: a compact workstation which provides direct access to Internet, 2) ImagStation which provides access to digital photos from the Web, and 3) Aibo: a demonstration of artificial intelligence.
SurfControl: SurfControl will demonstrate its Internet filtering software tools to clarify misunderstanding about how filtering works and illustrate the differences among its filtering technologies for the various markets and, in the course of the demonstration, will discuss the way filtering technology is evolving and what new technologies will be presented in the coming months and years.
IMLS: The federal Institute of Museum and Library Services is supporting the following six projects. As a primary source of federal funding for libraries and museums, IMLS advances knowledge through the digital world:
- Hannahville Indian Community, Wilson, MI, Project HOW: History on the Web: The project Web site offers accurate information, gathered from area museums and tribal elders, about the Hannahville Indian Reservation, the Potowatomi people, and other Michigan Native Americans. It demonstrates how groups that have been underrepresented in the electronic environment can use technology to tell their own stories.
- Tufts University, The Edwin C. Bolles Collection - A Digital Archive of London: The Bolles digital archive represents a comprehensive, integrated resource of texts, images and maps documenting the history and topography of London. The collection can be used in ways that are possible only in the electronic environment, creating a new model for access to primary and secondary source material.
- University of Denver, The Colorado Digitization Project: This large collaboration provides unified access to the holdings of more than 40 archives, historical societies, libraries and museums statewide. Search capabilities include a clickable map for geographic searching and a union catalog of search terms. The project is a model for the integration of digital resources from disparate collections with different traditions of descriptive practice.
- Johns Hopkins University, The Lester S. Levy Collection Music Recognition Project: The online Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection from the Johns Hopkins University's Eisenhower Library uses optical music recognition (OMR) software, MIDI playback, automated name authority control and music searching to exploit the full potential of the collection. The demonstrators will discuss how each of these elements will be integrated into a digital workflow management system.
- University of IDAHO, INSIDE Idaho: INSIDE (Interactive Numeric Spatial Information Data Engine) Idaho is a digital data clearinghouse that provides a centralized location for data produced by various federal, state government and local agencies. The website includes four major components: GeoData, Numeric Data, Atlas Maps, and Interactive Mapping, with an online tutorial to assist users.
- Massachusetts State Library, Adaptive Technologies for Disabled Users: The Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners has developed a planning process to help libraries assess the needs of consumers with disabilities in their communities. This demonstration, involving representatives from a public library that has used the process and an adaptive technology vendor, will show how visually impaired users can access printed information and the Internet through speech recognition and large print software.