InfoVision: Visions of the Information Age

Format: Softcover, 291 pages
ISBN: 0-933217-10-2
Price: $380

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

InfoVision ComForum Summary

InfoVision ComForum Session Summaries

Future Applications of Information Technologies (Plenary I)
Joseph F. Coates, President, Coates & Jarratt

Copper Mind Sets (Plenary II)
Peter Cochrane, Divisional Manager, Systems Research, BT Laboratories

The New Information Industry of the 21st Century (Plenary III)
Jagdish N. Sheth, Charles H. Kellstadt Professor, Marketing, Emory University

Future Directions of Cable Services
Harold M. Krisbergh, President, General Instrument Corporation

Integrating Video, Voice, and Data Services onto a Broadband Network
Earl G. Langenberg, Vice President, Engineering and Technology, U S WEST

Application of Digital Compression for Cable TV
Robert M. Zitter, Senior Vice President, HBO

A Vision of Freedom
Bruce R. DeMaeyer, President, Great Western Teleconsulting

Changing Personal Lifestyles via Wireless Communications Technology
Clifford A. Bean, Director, Mobile Telecommunications Consulting, Arthur D. Little

The Wireless Revolution: The Public Policy View
Ron Nessen, Vice President, Cellular Telecommunication Industry Association

Wireless Communications: Evolution to Universal Personal Communication Services
Jesse E. Russell, Director, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Wireless Systems and Services

New Satellite Applications on the Menu
Bruce R. Elbert, Director, Operations, Hughes Communications

The 21st Century Global Satellite Market
Joseph N. Pelton, Director, Graduate Telecommunications Program, University of Colorado

The Interexchange Market from a Global and Collaborative Perspective
Richard K. Snelling, Director and CEO, Georgia Center for Advanced Telecommunications Technology (GCATT)

AT&T's PLAN 2000: A Future View of Business Communications
Roy P. Weber, Director, Marketing Planning and Support, AT&T
Robert F. Mortenson, District Manager, Plan 2000 Customer Requirements, AT&T

The Interexchange Market: A View from Sprint
David W. Dorman, President, Major Accounts Group, Sprint

The Interexchange Market: MCI Perspective
Gary M. Parsons, Senior Vice President, Corporate and Public Policy, MCI Communications

Visions of the 21st Century: An RBOC Perspective
Thomas M. Super, Vice President-Research & Development, NYNEX Science & Technology

The Future of LECS as Seen by GTE
Leland W. Schmidt, Vice President-lndustry Affairs, GTE Telephone Operations

The Future of the LECS: Tomorrow and the Small Independent
Robert G. McKuin, Vice President, Network Services, ALLTEL Corporation

Where Will Competition Take Us? The View from Teleport
Kenneth A. Shulman, Vice President, Technology and Network Planning, Teleport Communications Group

Equal Access for Better Service, Innovation, and Lower Costs
Richard A. Kozak, President-Southern Division, Metropolitan Fiber Systems

National ISDN: Our Key to the Future
John W. Seazholtz, Vice President, Network Technologies, Bell Atlantic

Convergence of SONET and ATM: The Broadband Dream
Larry N. Hulbert, Vice President-Sales, Service & Technical Marketing, Alcatel Network Systems

Beyond Switching? Future Visions of the Telecommunications Manufacturer
John B. Terry, Senior Consultant and Technical Director, Advanced Systems & Technologies, BNR

Technical Vitality of Technical Professionals: A Competitive Advantage of the 1990s
Paul R. Gehrmann, Director, Systems Software, Technical Strategy Development, IBM

Institutionalizing Learning from Experience: National Institute Perspective
Bill Curtis, Director, Software Process Program, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

Institutionalizing Learning from Experience: Industry Research Perspective
Daniel Sabbah, Department Group Manager-Software Technology, Research Division, IBM

One-on-One Marketing with Permission
D. Mike Maxwell, President, Maxwell Partners

If You Build It, Will They Come?
Richard Kostrya, Executive Vice President, U.S. Director of Media Services, J. Walter Thompson

The Future of Advertising in the Information Age
Jagdish N. Sheth, Charles H. Kellstadt Professor, Marketing, Emory University

Information Services and the Banking Industry
M. Peter Miller, Corporate Senior Vice President, Specialized Products Department, The First National Bank of Chicago

Information Technology in Mortgage and Other Asset-Backed Securitization
Blaine Roberts, Senior Managing Director, Bear Stearns and Company

Changing Technology in the Information Business
T. Travers Waltrip, Vice President, Telecommunications Division, The Travelers

Education in Transition—Toward Creating Our Common Future
Frank G. Splitt, McCormick Faculty Fellow of Telecommunications, Northwestern University

Technology and Choice—Educational Opportunity
Denis Philip Doyle, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute

Visions of Potential...Our Information Age Future
Ray L. Steele, Director-Center for Information and Communications Science, Ball State University

Teleradiology: Toward Electronic Integration of the Health-Care Delivery System
R. Gilbert Jost, Professor of Radiology, Chief of Diagnostic Radiology, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology

Texas Tech Mednet Demonstration Project—Interactive Video Telecommunications Networks for Rural Communities
E. Jay Wheeler, Associate Dean, Chairman of Health Organization Management, Health Sciences Center, Texas Tech University

Electronic Claims: A Vision Crying for Reality
Arthur M. Randall, President, Art Randall Associates

Technology Platforms: A 21st-Century Challenge
Charles F. Russell, Vice President-Technology, The Wall Street Journal

Newspapers: Their Prospects and Their Roles
Peter E. Pitz, Vice President, Technology, Knight-Ridder

Newspapers in the 21st Century: An Editor's View
L. John Haile, Vice President and Editor, The Orlando Sentinel

Vision toward a Digital Future
Larry Lozon, Director-Multimedia Business Ventures, EDS

Interactive Television
Jerry D. Henshaw, Senior Vice President-Science & Technology, United Video Satellite Group

Digitized Content
Bill Harvey, President, New Electronic Media Science; CEO, Next Century Media, Inc.

Consumer New Media: Attributes of Demand
Arvind Khilnani, Research Fellow, Institute for the Future

"The Blurring Lines" Entertainment and Broadcasting: A Legal Perspective
Warren G. Lavey, Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

Social Drivers of Innovation in Telecommunications
Richard Scase, Professor of Sociology and of Organizational Behavior, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury

The Human-Machine Interface and Telepresence
Peter Cochrane, Divisional Manager, Systems Research, BT Laboratories

Education's Role in the Vision
C. David Sadleir, Vice President, Computing and Communications, University of Toronto

Technology and Market Futures: A South American Perspective
Alexander A. Elorriaga, Chief Executive Officer and Executive President, Galactica Telecommunications Company

Partners in the Vision: The View from Mexico
Alejandro Lopez Toledo, President, Sinfra. S.A. de C.V.

Pacific Rim: Realizing the Vision
Donald R. Woodwell, President, International Information & Business Technologies, PTE, Ltd.

Pacific Overtures: MCI and the Pacific Rim
Stephen W. Ogborn, Director, International Relations, MCI Corporation

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