ATTN: Members near Stanford in CA for event tomorrow, May 31

[John Sullivan]

If you are available, please attend the presentation described below,
and do what you can to make sure that free formats and the importance
of formats being free are not ignored!




             Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium             
                                                                 
                 4:15PM, Wednesday, May 31, 2006                 
        HP Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B01       
                   http://ee380.stanford.edu[1]                  
                                                                 
                       Saving Bits Forever                       

Topic:    A Systems View of Long-term Digital Storage

Speaker:  Mary Baker
          HP Labs

About the talk:

The computer industry has successfully provided many tools for
creating the digital counterparts of formerly analog assets,
including photographs, music, movies, medical records and
scientific databases. One of the promises of this digital world
is that these virtual assets can "live forever." Unfortunately,
experience shows us that digital materials, even those stored on
long-lived media, are often more vulnerable to damage and
corruption than analog materials.

Why is this? What can we do about it? This presentation will
cover the threats to digital preservation and some of the
solutions under development.

About the speaker:

Mary Baker is a senior research scientist at Hewlett-Packard Labs
in Palo Alto. Her research interests include distributed systems,
networks, mobile systems and digital preservation. She has a PhD
in computer science from the University of California at
Berkeley. Baker was a founding member of the IEEE Pervasive
Computing editorial board and the NTT DoCoMo USA Labs technical
advisory board. For more information see her web page[2].

Contact information:

Mary Baker
1501 Page Mill Road
Mail Stop 1183
Palo Alto, CA 94304
650-857-4128
650-857-7029


Embedded Links:
[ 1 ]    http://ee380.stanford.edu
[ 2 ]    http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Mary_Baker
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