Keynote Sessions

Rodney Brooks on Artificial Intelligence

Rodney Brooks, Ph.D., Director of M.I.T.’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Tuesday, April 1, 8:30 am – 9:30 am

Fun is never far away when Rodney Brooks explains his passion for invention and discovery. A technology visionary, ground-breaking scientist, creative entrepreneur, and according to Time Magazine, “a voluble Australian … famous for finding radical, counterintuitive approaches to intractable problems,” Brooks is arguably the world’s most important figure in robotics. If there is a leading edge in the world of technology, his spectacular career has certainly been spent exploring it.

2008: Global Business Outlook and IPC “Survey Says”

Walt Custer, President, Custer Consulting Group, and
Sharon Starr, Director of Market Research, IPC
Wednesday, April 2, 8:30 am – 9:45 am

What lies ahead for the domestic and global electronics industry food chain? Industry analyst Walt Custer will cover electronics equipment and component market sizes and scopes with forecasts by sector. Both world and regional data are included. Topics include the global economy, seasonality and cyclicality, electronic equipment production by geography and equipment type, semiconductors, printed circuits and other passive components, EMS & ODM markets, electronic materials & process equipment.