Brewster Kahle
is President of Alexa Internet, which he co-founded in 1996 and recently sold to Amazon.com, and the inventor of the Internet Archive. Prior to Alexa Internet, Mr. Kahle invented the WAIS (Wide Area Information Server) system and, in 1989, founded WAIS Inc., a pioneering electronic publishing company. He also helped start Thinking Machines, a parallel supercomputer maker in 1983, serving as lead engineer for 6 years. Mr. Kahle earned a B.S. from MIT in 1982. As a student, he studied artificial intelligence with Marvin Minsky and W. Daniel Hillis. He was selected as a member of the Upside 100 in 1997, Micro Times 100 in 1996 and 1997, and Computer Week 100 in 1995. http://www.alexa.com/ Where Do We Go from Here? Our cultural heritage is now taking digital form, whether born digital or born-again digital by conversion from print or other media. - What new opportunities for cultural exaboution become possible when cultural artifacts take digital form? - What are the risks, and how might they be managed? - What are the characteristics of digital cultural artifacts? - What is different when our culture can be datamined with supercomputers? -Where do we go from here? - What technical work remains to be done to preserve and archive digital documents, and who might do it? This talk will approach these questions from the practical perspective of building Alexa Internet and the Internet Archive. See schedule.	program BILL BUXTON ANDY CAMERON MATTHEW CHALMERS DANIEL DÖGL BILL GAVER NEIL GERSHENFELD ANDREW GLASSNER PAUL HAEBERLI TOM HEWETT BREWSTER KAHLE PANU KORHONEN DOUG LENAT JO LERNOUT RALPH MERKLE THEODOR H. NELSON CELIA PEARCE MARK PESCE HANI RASHID BILL SCHILIT DAVID SMALL MARCO SUSANI JOHN THACKARA MICHAEL FREEDMAN TURNER WHITTED ANTON ZEILINGER
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