As Whitehurst observed during his keynote, the historical model of IT vendors developing solutions for customers is shifting toward customers solving their own problems using commodity parts.
Keynote Lecture Title: Mining, Modelling and Evaluation of the Biomolecular Network.
The Playboy picture fiasco peaked in 1997, when the model was invited as a keynote speaker and gave a lecture (of questionable academic value) at the Society for Imaging Science and Technology conference.
TC: How different culturally has it been for you to come from Oracle to Salesforce?? KB: When you think about our model — we talked about in the keynote today — the new technology model, the new business model.
By the way, the WLE Virtual Summit is being keynoted by Arianna Huffington, who created a new business model herself - The Huffington Post.
On the other hand, this year's model ships with iWork (Pages, Numbers and Keynote) free, which is a great productivity suite made even better.
This is a write-up of material presented at keynote talks at Virtual Reality 2012 and at Shape Modeling International 2012.
He notes that during the keynote today, we got a glimpse at how the HTML model is coming along.
In a sense, it's like GarageBand or Keynote for quick textbook publishing, not so much a scalable model that works for the entire industry.
Keynote speaker Fred van Eeuwijk (Wageningen University) gave a comprehensive overview of genome × environment modeling in plants, from basic models taught in an introductory course for plant breeders, to recent developments incorporating temperature-responsive quantitative trait loci, and characterizing environments through additional variables such as temperature, rainfall, etc.
