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THIC Meeting, San Jose CA, March 2003

Theme: Five Decades of Digital Data Recording: Prospect and Retrospect

Monday March 3, 2003

14:00 - 16:30 Board of Directors Meeting;
Meet in the lobby of the Beverly Heritage Hotel

Tuesday March 4, 2003

08:00 - 09:00 Registration and refreshments

09:00 - 09:15 General announcements by Chairman and Vice Chairman

09:15 - 9:45 Dr Giora J. Tarnopolsky, Principal, TarnoTek, P.O. Box 519, Palo Alto CA 94302-0519, Phone: +1-650-823-6852, Fax: +1-650-322-3160, e-mail: gjtarno@tarnotek.com , Areal Density Growth: Is it the manifest destiny of the hard disk drive? (926,403 Bytes)

09:45 - 10:15 Rod Van Meter , Nokia, Phone: +1-650-714-9286, e-mail: rdv@alumni.caltech.edu , Whither the Mobile Internet: Storage and Mobile Terminals? (3,096,297 Bytes)

10:15 - 10:45 David Kalstrom, 1609 B Regatta Lane, San Jose CA 95112, Phone: +1-408-441-3535, Fax: +1-408-441-7259, e-mail: dkalstrom@trace.com , Removable Disk Storage Successes and Flameouts: What Can We Learn From the Past as We Move Forward? (682,711 Bytes)

10:45 - 11:15 Break

11:15 - 11:45 Dr. Hans J. Coufal , IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road , San Jose CA 95120-6099, Phone: +1-408-927-2441, Fax: +1-408-927-3415, e-mail: coufal@almaden.ibm.com , The Future of Data Recording: Holographic Data Storage?

11:45 - 12:15 Jim Dunford, Synthesis Research, 3475-D Edison Way, Menlo Park CA 94025, Phone: +1-650-364-1853, Fax: +1-650-364-5716, e-mail: jim_dunford@synthesisresearch.com , Beyond Bit Error Testing, Physical Layer Testing on a BERT (737,618 Bytes)

12:15 - 13:45 Lunch

13:45 - 14:15 Dr T M Ravi, CEO, Mimosa Inc., Phone: +1-650-233-0692, Fax: +1-650-233-0695, e-mail: ravitm@pacbell.net , Evolution of Storage Software (255,902 Bytes)

14:15 - 14:45 Phil Brunelle, Conduant Corp, 1501 S. Sunset Street, Suite C, Longmont CO 80501, Phone: +1-303-485-2721 x105,+1-888-497-7327 , Fax: +1-303-485-5104, web: www.conduant.com , Disk for Real-Time Data (856,776 Bytes)

14:45 - 15:15 Demetri Lignos, InPhase Technologies, 2000 Pike Rd, Longmont CO 80501, Phone:+1-720-494-7447, Fax:+1-720-494-9606, e-mail: demetrioslignos@inphase-tech.com , Holographic Technology is finally on its way to productization (1,336,074 Bytes)

15:15 - 15:45 Break

15:45 - 16:15 Andy Helland , LightSand Communications, 279 Sinclair Frontage Rd, Malpitas CA, Phone:+1-408-404-3119, Fax:+1-408-941-2166, e-mail: andyh@lightsand.com , Challenges of connecting remote Storage Area Networks (SANs) for performance applications (3,218,409 Bytes)

17:30 - 19:30 Reception at the Beverly Heritage Hotel, 1820 Barber Ln, Milpita CA 95035

Wednesday, March 5, 2003

08:00 - 09:00 Registration and Refreshments

09:00 - 09:30 Dr Mike Russak , Komag Inc., San Jose CA, e-mail: Mike.Russak@Komag.com , Overview of Disk Drive Technology (2,599,175 Bytes)

09:30 - 10:00 Dr. Tony Sasanuma, Sony, 4-4-1 Asahi-cho, Atsugi-shi Kanagawa, 243-0014 Japan, Phone:+81-46-230-5364, Fax:+81-46-230-6075, e-mail: tony.sasanuma@jp.sony.com , Tape Storage Systems: Now and the Future (1,885,084 Bytes)

10:00 - 10:30 Break

10:30 - 11:00 Jim Jonez, Quantum Corporation, e-mail: Jim.Jonez@Quantum.com , Protecting the World's Data—Quantum DLTtape (560,375 Bytes)

11:00 - 12:00 Professor Mark Fruin, Department of Organization and Management, San Jose State University , San Jose CA, Phone:+1-408-924-3570, Fax:+1-408-924-3555, Globalization of the Storage Business (2011,754 Bytes)

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 14:30 Tour of Sony Petasite