Prior to taking on his current role, Rick served as Vice President of Macintosh System Software. Under his leadership, Apple enhanced the System 7 operating system to support the new PowerPC architecture. His organisation expanded system software to be fully world-ready with the development of Worldscript technology, delivered QuickTime multimedia technology, and initiated the development of the OpenDoc Application architecture, Quickdraw GX imaging, multitasking OS services, and new user interface technologies which will serve as key foundations for Apple's future system software.
Prior to joining Apple in 1991, Rick spent 15 years at Digital Equipment Corporation in New England, where he held a variety of management and engineering positions. Under Rick's leadership, Digital initiated the port of the VMS operating system to the Alpha RISC architecture, developed symmetric multiprocessing and workstation services for VMS, and released numerous major versions of the VMS operating system. Prior to joining Digital in 1977, Rick worked for Inco Inc. in Washington, D.C. working on early microprocessor systems.
While studying at Clemson University, Rick assisted in creating their instructional systems development lab, an early computer based classroom. In addition to creating learning technology for the lab, Rick also taught computing skills to local high school students.
Rick holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Clemson University, a Master of Science in Computer Engineering from University of Massachusetts Lowell, and completed the Executive Leadership Institute at Boston University.
Stephen Bannerman, Manager - Communications and Collaboration Products, Executive Briefing Center, Apple Computer Inc.
Steve is the Product Line Manager for Communications and Collaboration products in Apple USA's Executive Briefing Center. His role at Apple is to provide customers with Apple's directions on Networking, Server, Mail, and PDA technologies. Steve has a BS Industrial Management (1982) from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Ga. and is an 11 year veteran in the computer industry, having focused on Networking (LAN, WAN and wireless protocols) and higher order collaboration technologies (mail and messaging). Prior to Apple he spent 4 years as a Senior Systems Engineer with Hayes Microcomputer Products in both the US (Atlanta, Ga.) and the UK (London, England).
Presentation Overview:
Steve will focus on Apple's strategic directions for Networking & Communications Architectures. These directions include the Open Transport Architecture as well as the future of other enabling technologies such as Apple Remote Access.
The Open Transport Architecture represents as fundamental step forward in Apple's efforts to make the Macintosh a better enterprise client. Built on a suite of industry standard API's, Open Transport provides developers tremendous flexibility in developing Macintosh applications for multi-protocol networks. Since applications written to the Open Transport Architecture will be much more "Transport-Independent," Network Managers will be able to offer their users a wider range of application choices without necessarily incurring the burden of supporting a larger number of network protocols. Open Transport also provides a next-generation human interface designed to dramatically simplify the Macintosh user's entire networking experience.
A long-time differentiator for the Macintosh platform, Apple Remote Access will also evolve into a more standards-based offering. While still providing Macintosh users with native AppleTalk support from remote locations, Apple Remote Access 3.0 will also roll native TCP/IP support under the ARA umbrella.
Dr. Rick LeFaivre, Vice President, Advance Technology Group, Apple Computer, Inc.
Rick LeFaivre is Vice President of the Advanced Technology Group of Apple Computer, Inc. He is responsible for Apple's future technology directions in such areas as advanced systems (system software, hardware architectures, information architectures, media architectures), communications technologies (wireless, broadband, ubiquitous computing, interactive TV), user interaction technologies (speech, pen, graphics, imaging, video), and user solutions (intelligent systems, authoring tools, learning environments). He also oversees Apple's Corporate Library, External Research portfolio, and the Apple research centres in Paris and Singapore. He joined Apple in March of 1991.
Previously, Dr. LeFaivre was Director of Windows and Graphics Systems at Sun Microsystems, responsible for both technology and product development of Sun's windowing and graphics subsystems. Prior to joining Sun in 1989, he spent eleven years at Tektronix, Inc. as Director of computing and visual systems research in Tek's central research labs, and from 1974 to 1978 he was a professor in the Computer Science Department at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.
Dr. LeFaivre received his B.A. in mathematics from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Frank Casanova, Director of Advanced Technology Evangelism, Advance Technology Group, Apple Computer, Inc.
Frank Casanova has worked at Apple Computer's Cupertino headquarters for the
last 7 years. During this period of time, he has held a number of positions
including Product Line Manager for high-performance Macintosh CPUs including
the Macintosh IIfx and Macintosh Quadra product families. In addition he was a
senior member of the Power Macintosh program team.
Frank is currently the Director of Advanced Technology Evangelism in Apple Computer's Advanced Technology Group where he's a member of ATG's senior management team. His responsibilities include transitioning ATG technologies into Apple's products, bringing new technologies into Apple, managing external, strategic relationships, prototyping next-generation products and he serves as Apple's lead techno-mouth piece.
Frank's passions include playing heavy metal rock guitar, fast cars, fast computers and fast food.
Presentation Overview:
Apple's Advance Technology Group: Future Paradyms of Communication and Collaboration
Larry Kenyon, Distinguished Engineer, Newton Systems Group, Apple Computer, Inc.
Larry Kenyon joined Apple Computer, Inc. in 1980, and has been a significant contributor to the Macintosh, AppleTalk, and Newton architectures. The products he has helped bring to market range from Apple II peripheral cards, the first Macintosh through the Macintosh II, versions of the Macintosh Finder for AppleShare and MultiFinder, and most of the current Apple Newton products.
Presentation Overview:
Apple introduced its Newton product line in August 1993 with the Apple MessagePad, Newton Connection Kit, and Newton Toolkit. Apple followed up with the MessagePad 110 and 120, NCK 2.0, improved tools, and a number of applications from StarCore, its application publishing group. Over a hundred commercial, and a thousand shareware and vertical applications have been created.
Apple Computer invests in the Newton platform in new product development and licensee support through its Newton Products Group in Apple's R&D Division. Apple's Newton product efforts fall into the areas of hardware, the Newton OS, desktop connectivity software, tools, applications, and communications solutions. In each of these areas we have been expanding and improving product offerings in response to customer and licensee feedback.
Apple is aggressively licensing this platform in order to continue Newton's leadership in the PDA category. The Newton architecture offers a number of advantages, and is suitable for a wide range of products, ranging from mid-range electronic organisers, to PDA's and sub-notebooks. We expect to see new Newton products introduced by Apple and its licensees in all these categories in 1996. It is interesting to consider what a Newton targeted for the higher education market might look like.
Stephen Heppell, Director, Ultralab, Learning Technology Research Centre, Anglia Polytechnic University, UK
Professor Stephen Heppell is based at Anglia Polytechnic University's ULTRALAB
in the UK. ULTRALAB's work is very much at the 'cutting edge' seeking to
harness technology to make learning "more delightful and more effective". The
'lab was a pioneering educational producer of CD ROM in Europe, is a passionate
supporter of small cultures and is at the heart of the developing debate about
new learning environments. It also houses the UK's National Archive of
Educational Computing.
Stephen has long experience of educational computing. He is director of ULTRALAB and is currently advising an eclectic mix of partners from telecommunications, the cinema, broadcasting, computing, finance, publishing, politics and education about interface design and the possibilities for learning in the future. He is active in broadcasting and writes widely in the press.
His chair has been supported for many years by Apple.
Presentation Overview:
Higher education institutions around the world are looking to technology to
solve their changing requirements for flexibility, costs, access and much else.
This presentation suggests ways that good computer technology can advance the ways in which we learn and broaden the spectrum of students that learn with us - for example by offering social but distributed asynchronous learning through two way broad band telecommunications.
However, as we seize technology with enthusiasm we may have grasped more than we expected. Firstly, as the 'children of the information age' begin to pass into higher education they bring with them a changed climate of expectation which potentially will radically change our institutions. Secondly technology has opened a door to a fully fledged learning society with the possibility for further radical change.
This presentation concludes by suggesting some scenarios (some attractive, some less so) that technology offers for the future of universities.