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THIC Meeting, San Jose CA, March 2004

Theme:        Data Storage Buffet

This meeting was sponsored by SONY

                 

Monday March 8, 2004

 

15:30 – 17:00    THIC Board of Directors Meeting  (Lobby of the Beverly Heritage Hotel)

 

Tuesday March 9, 2004

 

8:00                  Registration and Continental Breakfast

 

8:45 – 9:00       Welcome, Introductory remarks, and administrative announcements

 

9:00 – 9:45       Ted Schwarz, Peregrine Technologies, TedSchwarz@aol.com, Development of a Standard Cartridge Multi-terabyte Tape System (507,991 bytes)

 

9:45 – 10:30     Mark Geenen, TrendFocus, mark@trendfocus.com, Shake, Rattle, and Roll: The HDD Industries Next Phase (276,842 bytes)

 

10:30 – 11:00    Break

 

11:00 – 11:45    Dr. Dennis Speliotis, ADE Technologies, 80 Wilson Way, Westwood MA 02090-1806, +1-781-467-3523, +1-781-467-0523, dspeliotis@ade.com, Advanced Magnetic Metrology (3,063,854 bytes)

 

11:45 – 12:30    Dr. Giora Tarnopolsky, Tarnotek, Inc., P.O. Box 519, Palo Alto CA 94302-0519, +1-650-823-6852, +1-650-322-2640, gjtarno@tarnotek.com, Perfect Devices: The Amazing Endurance of Evolving Hard Disk Drives

 

12:30 – 13:30    Lunch

 

13:30 – 14:15    Mark Ferelli, WestWorld Production, Inc., 420 N. Camden Dr, Beverly Hills CA 90210-4507, +1-310-276-9500, +1-310-246-1405, mark_ferelli@wwpi.com , Data Protection: Trends and Directions (601,141 bytes)

 

14:15 – 15:00    Dr. Al Hoagland, Department of Electrical Engineering, Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara CA 95053-0569, +1-408-554-4032, ahoagland@scu.edu , The Early History of Magnetic Disk Storage – Genesis of the Current Revolution in Information Storage (16,435,952 bytes), NoMovie (3,542,826 bytes)

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15:00 – 15:30    Break

 

15:30 – 16:15    Dr. Garth Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University and Panasas, garth@panasas.com, Object Storage Devices (13,319,154 bytes) 

16:15 – 17:00    Dr Art Edmonds, Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, 750 Central Expressway MS 3207, Santa Clara CA 95050-2627, +1-408-970-7979, +1-408-562-5477, art.edmonds@hds.com, Securing and Protecting Your Mission Critical Information in an Unsecure, Hostile World (22,988,646 bytes)

 

18:00                RECEPTION

Reception for THIC attendees at the Beverly Heritage Hotel

 

Wednesday March 10, 2004

 

8:00                  Registration and Continental Breakfast

 

9:00 – 9:45       Dr Richard Mount, Stanford Linear Accelerator, Stanford University, richard.mount@slac.standford.edu , Data Recording and High Energy Physics, a Love Hate Relationship (3,387,640 bytes)

 

9:45 – 10:30     Steve Louis, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, stlouis@llnl.gov, The NNSA Advanced Simulation and Computing Program: Past, Present, Future (2,412,673 bytes)

 

10:30 – 11:00    Break

 

11:00 – 11:45    Dr. Seiichi Onodera, Sony Corporation, Sendai TEC, 3-4-1 Sakuragi Tagajo-shi, Miyagi-ken 985-0842 JAPAN, +81-22-367-2460, +81-22-367-2589, Seiichi.Onodera@jp.sony.com, ME Technology – AIT, SAIT, and Bi-directional Recording

 

11:45 – 12:30    Dr. Kurt Hallamasek, Ampex, Kurt_Hallamasek@ampex.com, A GMR Read Channel for Helical Scan Tape Recording (5,343,534 bytes)

 

12:30 – 13:30    Lunch

 

13:30-14:15      Nick Harper, Spectralogic Corporation, 1700 North 55th Street , Boulder CO 80301-2702, +1-303-449-6444 x1509, +1-303-939-8844, nickh@spectralogic.com , The Death and Rebirth Cycle of Tape (554,661 bytes)

 

14:30                Assemble for Car Pool to Computer History Museum, Mountain View CA