Speaker's Corner columns, published every third Wednesday at The Inquirer:

• Organic computing is the only way forward: Peter Cochrane, Mr Restless (6/19/08)


• Memristor man says the computer age is yet to begin: Stan Williams, Hewlett-Packard (5/28/08)


• Map fetishist goes round the world and back: Eric Rodenbeck, Stamen Design (5/7/08)


• When geeks grow up: Jeff Jonas, IBM Entity Analytics (4/16/08)


• Artificial Intelligence is still the future: John McCarthy, optimist (4/7/08)


• Synchronicity 'R' Us: Kymberlee Weil, Intronetworks (3/27/08)


• Nobody types quite like you: Peter Horadan (3/5/08) - The way you type can identify you.


• Children are human beings too: Terri Dowty (1/23/08) - Children have already lost the privacy adults are struggling to keep.


• The product is dead, make way for the service: Jim Spohrer, IBM (1/2/08) - IBM helped found the discipline of computer science; now it wants to do the same for services science.

2007

• My XP-powered driverless car never crashed: Mark Campbell, Cornell (12/12/07) - the faculty advisor to Cornell's team in the DARPA Urban Challenge talks about teaching an automated car to merge lanes.


• If man is from Mars, computers are from outer space: Donald A. Norman (11/21/07) - The guru of usability looks into the future.


• Cirrus man sees the logic of sound: Jason Rhode, CEO of Cirrus Logic (10/31/07) - Why is a Kawasaki motorcycle like a mixing desk?


• Cryptographer swaps algorithms for the freezing crypt: Ralph Merkle (10/11/07) - Solving the whole-body frostbite problem.


• Man who wanted to change the world built virtual ones instead: Richard Bartle, MUD-maker, University of Essex (9/19/07) - Self-discovery through creative typing.


• There's a pattern we recognise in Donna Dubinsky's career (8/29/07) - Palm, Handspring, Numenta...Jeff Hawkins!


• Finding the right lock for cryptographic keys: Nicko van Someren, nCipher (7/18/07) - And you thought managing passwords was bad.


• Backstage at the beeb: Michael Cashmore and Ian Forrester (6/27/07) - Is an open API the future of broadcasting?


• Google man proclaims "Summer of Code": Chris di Bona (6/6/07) - Get those students spending their summers flipping bits instead of burgers.


• Microsoft man seeks to re-engineer the Web: Kim Cameron (5/16/07) - ...and reinvent identity.


• RFID virus buster builds wireless firewall: Melanie Rieback (4/25/07) - Stop people from stealing your spy chips.


• Never trust a web site: Marc Hedlund, Wesabe (4/4/07) - Why *not* share your financial data with the world?


• Man who helped invent brain of computer apologises profusely: Stan Mazor (2/21/07) - Is building a chateau in Oregon out of styrofoam adequate penance?


• Getting to the root of open source: Rishab Aiyer Ghosh (1/31/07) - Altruism, schmaltruism.


• Father of OS/2, Citrix, is Flying High: Ed Iacobucci (1/10/07) - Why a very light jet is a software service..

2006

• Thinking ahead of the spammers: Scott Chasin, MX Logic (12/20/06) - Such brilliant technology. If only they used it for *good*...


• How a codec will save the telcos (11/29/06) - Nick Ringma explains.


• Sendmail, just a wee hack, is still sending mail (11/8/06) - the weirdness of being Eric Allman.


• Moore's Law is alive and kicking (10/11/06) - Boyd Davis counts to four.


• The man putting PCs in space (9/20/06) - can SSTL's Martin Unwin really compete with NASA?


• AMD man has poetic mission: Charlie Boswell (8/30/06). Chip seller to the stars.


• Cornell boffin explains Galileo hack: Mark L. Psiaki (8/9/06). Europe, US, and competing global satellite navigation systems.


• The rendering of Angelina Jolie: Richard Huddy, ATI Graphics (7/19/06). Reality is nine years and three months away. Well, at least, something that looks like reality on a computer screen.

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