Meeting Notes from Previous SIG Meetings

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  • November 6, 2000, "Voice on the Net" a discussion with Eugene Koh, Director of Commerce Service Programming for Tell Me Inc.
  • October 3, 2000, "Varieties of High Technology Crime" a discussion with Frank Dudley Berry Jr., Deputy District Attorney, Santa Clara County, Cybercrimes Unit.
  • September 11, 2000, "DoDots Overview for Developers," Carl de Cordova, Evangelist, DoDots, Inc. on technology to keep Web Information readily available.
  • August 7, 2000, "Intellectual Property Rights and the Internet"
  • July 10, 2000, "Building Comptetitive Advantage Through an Automated Broadband Platform" by Kevin Grundy, Senior Vice President, Engineering, Telocity
  • June 5, 2000, Discussion of Security on the Net led by Jim Clements of React Network, a Network Security consulting firm specializing in the identification of network vulnerabilities and threat.
  • May 1. 2000, Discussion about ISP's, particularily DSL and Cable alternatives.
  • February 1, 1999, "Things You Wouldn't Believe about your Internet Security" a discussion with Michael Graff, a developer of secure applications for Vixie Enterprises and the Internet Software Consortium, the home of BIND-DNS.
  • December 7, 1998, Jam Session: "What I want for Christmas from the Internet" a discussion led by Sean Griffin of StudioFX.
  • November 2, 1998, Internet Imaging Solutions with Edward Jonathans of Live Picture, Inc.
  • October 5, 1998, Discussion of Firewalls. See the December 1997 session for references on firewalls.
  • September 1, 1998, Doug Roseborough, Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at BackWeb Technologies on BackWeb's successful applications of Push Technology.
  • August 3, 1998, Mike Lash of Connected on "Painless Backups through the Internet".
  • July 7, 1998, Gerry Brown, Director Western Coast Business Development, Altavista Search Service led a discussion on "Searching the Next Generation."
  • June 1, 1998, Mike Maiten, Principal at Energetic Systems showed us the: "The Ins and Outs of E-mail."
  • May 4, 1998, Randall Schmitz, President and COO from Breakthrough Software used a newly announced tool to make a web site in less than 7 minutes.
  • April 6, 1998 Jennifer Mullin, Product Manager at Infoseek took us Behind the Doors at Infoseek.
  • March 2, 1998 Peter Bowen, Account Executive at AboveNet told us about Large Server Farms and ADSL.
  • February 2, 1998 Des Cahill, VP of Marketing at Autonomy spoke about Adding Intelligence to Internet Surfing with User Agents.
  • January 5 1998 The SIG meeting was a member's workshop for activities about Electronic Commerce on the Net. Discussions centered on how to get transactions concluded, security, spam, how to get recognized and more.
  • December 1, 1997 Unfortuantely our speaker became ill over the weekend prior to the meeting and was unable to appear. The group had a lively discussion on firewalls that migrated into a discussion of the protections under various operating systems. The result was concensus that operating systems with their roots on the desktop still do not have network level security. Some of this is domumented with references.
  • November 3, 1997 Bruce Shirey, Vice President, Cardservice International, Internet Solutions Department on the Future of Internet Settlements. And at the same meeting, Joe Shatara, President of DXP, a Cardservice associate and software developer, showed how to start taking credit cards at your site. Try a sample.
  • October 6, 1997 Steve Brown, Director of Business Development for White Pine Software on "Making Money from Video Conferencing on the Internet."
  • September 2, 1997 Dave Crocker, Brandenburg Consulting, told us "How DNS Works and Why the President of the United States says he cares!"
  • August 4, 1997 VXtreme's Mike Johnson, Content Manager demonstrated how streaming video broadcasts could be built into web pages using very straightforward authoring tools. VXtreme offers a family of products to facilitate broadcasting video over the inter/intranet. NOTE: VXtreme announced it had sold itself to Microsoft the day following the SIG meeting and the employees would be moving to Redmond WA.
  • July 7, 1997 Calico Technology, Dave Rome, VP of Marketing at Calico Technology, presented how Calico enables e-commerce. Calico Technology produces a configuration program that enables customers to determine the correct specifications and order complex products on WWW pages without the vendor's technical or sales personnel being involved.
  • June 2 1997 ICAST, Dick Carlson on Video Multicast technologies
  • May 5, 1997 SCO on the future of the Internet
  • March 3, 1997 Concentric Networks, John Peters, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Network Services

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