The Boundaries
of the Network

Session 1a: What boundaries? What network?
Session 1b: Panel: Cochrane, Laws, Maffei, Wang

Session 4: Infrastructure and metabolism of the network's membrane. Freeburg, Hendricks, Norman, Oristano, Thatcher

Dinner, music by Joe Weed and friends, fishing

Robert Berger is founder of UltraDevices, Inc. a startup focused on next generation broadband wireless technology using unlicensed spectrum. His sweet spot is where technologies and markets meet open standards and Open Source Software.

Victor Blake is founder of WaveShare Communications, a startup involved in design and operation of optical IP networks. In his last position, Victor designed and supervised construction of AOL's optical network.

Scott Bradner is the co-director of the IETF Transport Area, and co-chair of the IETF working group on IPv6. Scott is a natural teacher, a columnist and a frequent speaker at technical conferences. Scott has been involved with data networks at Harvard University since Usenet had one newsgroup.

Nolan Bushnell is founder of uWink, a coin-operated, networked video game business. Nolan invented Pong (the first coin-operated video game) and founded Atari, the first home video gaming platform.

Peter Cochrane is founder of Concept Labs. He has been both chief technologist and head of research at British Telecom.

Napier Collyns co-founded Global Business Network (GBN) in 1987 after thirty years in the international oil business, mostly with Royal Dutch/Shell. He was a member of Pierre Wack's original Shell scenario team. Napier is responsible for GBN's network of remarkable people.

Anders Comstedt is CEO of Stokab, a municipally chartered dark fiber provider in Stockholm. In this role, he advises Stockholm on issues like telecom deregulation and business development. In past incarnations, he held positions at Telia and Ericsson.

David Curry is President and Chief Operating Officer of World Wide Packets, where he is also a board member and investor. Previously, David founded Architel Systems, an OSS provider, and sold it to Nortel in 2000.

Tim Denton runs an Ottawa-based consulting practice focused on telecom policy and regulatory issues. Tim reads widely in science and technology, hates monopolies, and hikes in the Gatineau hills near Ottawa.

Peter Ekelund is Executive Director of Novestra, a European venture capital firm. Previously Peter was project manager for the launch of Absolut Vodka in the United States which turned Absolut into a global brand. He has also served as Chairman of Internet design firm Framfab and a founder of B2 Bredband AB (the broadband factory).

Tim Flynn is founder and chairman emeritus of LodgeNet, the second largest provider of interactive entertainment and information services to the lodging industry.

Tom Freeburg heads a new wireless broadband access business at Motorola. Previously he was Chief Futurist of Motorola Labs, and head of the Technology Outlook Laboratory. Tom holds numerous patents that span many of the basics of wireless data transmission.

Roxane Googin produces the High Technology Observer newsletter and consults with high-tech portfolio managers to keep them ahead of large structural changes in technology.

Chuck Gritton is CTO for Next Generation Switching at Tellabs. Chuck was involved in True Voice at AT&T Bell Labs (now Lucent), and he's also worked at Coherent Communications (now merged with Tellabs).

Estelle Havva is VP TechnoWallSt at TechnoCap. She assists TechnoCap's investee companies -- the TechnoAffiliates -- in relationships with co-investors and WallSt analysts.

Dewayne Hendricks is CEO of Dandin Group, Inc., which is developing new kinds of digital radio services. Dewayne is a member of the FCC Technological Advisory Committee. He has helped build wireless Internet infrastructure in Kenya, Tonga, Mexico, Canada and Mongolia. His e-newsletter, the Dewayne-net Technology List, surfs the edge of wireless technology and policy. Dave Hofstatter is co-founder and president of CallWave, a virtual local exchange company (VLEC) that provides IP-based second line service so single-line households don't miss calls when they're logged on.

Tim Horan heads telecommunications research at CIBC Oppenheimer. Previously, Tim held telecom analysis positions at BancAmerica, Robertson Stephens, and Smith Barney. In the distant past, Tim was a civil engineer.

David Isenberg is founder of isen.com, inc., a problems provider in a world with too many solutions. David grew up in Woods Hole.

Pete Kaminski works on collaborative information and communication systems. He co-founded Yipes, an Ethernet-over-fiber service provider. Before Yipes, Pete was the architect of NETCOM's NetCruiser and publisher of the Public Dialup Internet Access List (1993).

Steve Kamman does telecom equity research at CIBC Oppenheimer. Previously, Steve did business development at MCI, and strategy work at Andersen Consulting.

Pat Kennedy founded OSI Software, which provides data collection systems for power stations, electrical transmission facilities, telecom facilities as well as heavy industry such as refining, paper mills and chemical plants.

Malcolm has edited and published widely in telecoms since 1985, including a tour as editor of Communications Week International. Lawrence Lessig is a law professor at Stanford. Larry's 1999 book, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, details how the architecture of the net embeds social, economic and political values.

Adina Levin is product strategist for Vignette Corporation, a company that does e-business applications. Previously, Adina worked at Fastwater, a start-up e-commerce consulting firm, and at CAP Ventures.

Bob Lucky is head of Applied Research at Telcordia and chair of the FCC Technical Advisory Committee. Previously, Bob was with Bell Labs, where he led development of LuckyNet, one of the first high-speed digital research networks.

Andy Maffei helps oceanographers use networks in their research at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). His current project, NEPTUNE, is installing a multi-Gigabit Ethernet backbone in 2500 meters of water off the west coast of the US and Canada to enable a 30-year multi-disciplinary study of a single chunk of ocean.

Carolee Marano is conference coordinator and web designer for BigHook2001. She is program director for The Center for Women and Families in central NJ, also runs The Write Stuff promotional services.

Steve Mattioli is CEO of YottaYotta, a network storage company that utilizes distributed supercomputing to bring scalability and redundancy to storage, even when distributed across geographies. Previously, Steve served as President of Seek [Storage] Systems.

Jerry Michalski founded Sociate, which helps tech companies design where they're going. Jerry also speaks, writes, invests, and publishes his Brain (www.thebrain.com) online. Jerry is former managing editor of Release 1.0 -- under his stewardship, it became known as The Influential Release 1.0.

Gardner Miller is the caretaker of several properties on Juniper Point, including the Airplane House.

Richard Norman is co-founder and CTO of HyperChip, an "extreme performance network systems manufacturer". He is committed to bringing end-to-end gigabit connectivity to network users everywhere.

Matt Oristano is an entrepreneur who built a high-speed wireless Internet venture, SpeedChoice, and sold it to Sprint. Before that, Matt built the first American-owned cable TV system in Great Britain. In the early eighties, Matt owned and operated cable systems in the United States. In 1984, Matt tried to build a wide-area broadband data network -- "before it was cool (or even economical)."

Mark Petrovic is VP, R&D at EarthLink. Previously, Mark served in Operations at Sprint Communications Corporation's consumer Internet group in Kansas City, and as Visiting Scientist at IBM Watson Research Center.

Richard Prytula is a principal of TechnoCap, a venture firm investing in network technologies. TechnoCap's investments include Hyperchip - a petabit router start-up, VIPswitch, which is building equipment for terabit optical MANs, and YottaYotta, a network storage company.

David P. Reed made formative contributions to the architecture of the Internet in the '70's, most notably the "end-to-end architecture principle", which was re-discovered as the Stupid Network by latter-day revisionists. David has worked as chief scientist at Software Arts and Lotus Development Corp., and as senior scientist at Interval Research Corp.

Frank Robles is currently a principal at Oakstone Ventures, a silicon valley VC firm. Frank co-founded Yipes and Netcom. He is a Senior Associate of the Foresight Institute.

John Roese is Enterasys Networks' chief technologist and technical visionary, responsible for the company's strategic technical direction.

Tad Ryan is retired from international windsurfing competition, where he was in the top ten world-wide for several years. He wants to learn more about networking. Tad grew up in Woods Hole.

Raj Sandhu is the founder of NewSpeed, a venture investment and business development company focused on telecom infrastructure. In the past, he was a venture partner with The Chatterjee Group, an investment manager for Soros Fund Management, and a partner at SG Cowen.

Clay Shirky is a newly-independent consultant who's very good at explaining the relationship between architectures and business models. He is Professor of New Media at Hunter College, and has held numerous positions in tech and venture capital. He edited the first book on HTML.

Bill St. Arnaud is Senior Director of Network Projects for CANARIE Inc., Canada's national research network. At CANARIE, Bill led development and implementation of CA*net 3, the world's first national optical R&D Internet. Porter Stansberry writes Porter Stansberry's Investment Advsiory, a monthly newsletter dedicated to finding and explaining the best investments in the new economy. He is also founder of Diligence, a small cap and venture research service for high net worth investors.

Joe Sterling is the founder of Sterling Insights, Inc., which specializes in Graphic Facilitation and Visual Synthesis projects for clients including Toyota, Peregrine Systems, Ernst & Young, and Solar Turbines.

Jonathan Thatcher is Principal Engineer at World Wide Packets and head of the IEEE 10 Gigabit Ethernet Committee (802.3ae).

Catharine Trebnick is principal, Technology Market Strategies, a consulting firm. Her 18 years in telecom include 9 at Lucent, where she was general manager of the softswitch business unit and a principal founder of the Softswitch Consortium.

Gigi Wang is VP of Marketing for QALA Pte Ltd, a next-generation regional service provider in Asia. Gigi has held many positions doing Pacific Rim Internet development from Silicon Valley to Singapore.

Joe Weed is Musician in Residence at BigHook2001. His career focus is traditional American acoustic music. Weed's latest release is "SWANEE, The Music of Stephen Foster."

David Weinberger publishes JOHO: The Journal of the Hyperlinked Organization. David comments on technology for National Public Radio's All Things Considered and writes for Wired, Knowledge Management World, Intranet Design Magazine, and others. Simultaneously, David is president of Evident Marketing, Inc., which helps high tech companies figure out what they do and how to talk about it.