Interested in knowing what one of the “Father of the Internet” thinks about Web 2.0 and beyond?
The Digital Movement, together with Google and IDA, brings to you an exclusive evening with the VP of Engineering and Chief Internet Evangelist of Google, Vinton G. Cerf. Come down on the evening of 23 May 2008 to discover Vint’s perspective of the up and coming trends of the Internet and find out what great stuff he is doing in Google! Vint will be covering on the topic of “Tracking the Internet into the 21st Century” before engaging the audience in any discussion and questions that you might have!
As a “father of the Internet”, Vinton Cerf will share his perspective on the future trends of the Internet in the 21st century. The Internet has been constantly evolving and Web 2.0 has driven enormous changes in recent days. Along with the rapid economic development in Asia, the largest Internet user population is also found in this region. How will the Internet shift in the future, and how will our lifestyles change with the shift? Vint will share what it takes to meet a bright new future of the Internet.
Date: 23rd May 2008 (Friday)
Time: Registration starts at 6.30 pm
Venue: Suntec Convention Centre, Level 3, Room 325
Biodata
Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. He is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies and applications on the Internet and other platforms for the company. More…
Tracking the Internet into the 21st Century with Vint Cerf
May 15th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
I would liek to meet the Father of the Internet
May 16th, 2008 at 8:17 am
Hi Donald,
Please come down for this event to meet him!!
Wayne
May 16th, 2008 at 9:42 am
Well, he’s just one of the many fathers of the Internet. But still interesting, I’ve signed up for it!
Just a thought, how come there’re no Mothers of the Internet? :)
May 16th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Hi is there any way you can squeeze two more very keen people in???
May 16th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
I want to register but how?
May 16th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Will there be any internet broadcast? (ustream etc)
May 16th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Hun Boon: Seems like female computer programmers are far fewer in numbers and you’re talking about a few decades ago too.
Andrew and Rendy: Really sorry but we are over subscribed. If there’re any improvement to the situation, I’ll inform u guys about it.
Hisham: We’re looking into that, but because of the high cost of having internet in Suntec, the best we would haf is to upload the video after the session.
Wayne
May 17th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Is there a chance you could change venue and allow a larger audience
May 21st, 2008 at 7:59 am
Vint will also be speaking earlier the same day at the School of Computing, NUS.
It is also on “Tracking the Internet into the 21st Century”
Those who can’t make it to the TDM event later, and come earlier at 3:30 PM to attend the ‘first session’.
More details and registration details at:
http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/newsroom/article060508/index.htm
There’s a cap to the number of registration too.
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Hi Vinton, I hope to be able to collaborate with Google for the e-education as my students experienced miraculous and supernatural results after my tutoring, by God’s grace - I’m a Christian. I coach English, Chinese, Maths & Science from Primary 6 & below level. I’m also writing.
Last 2 students - Pri. 3 & Pri 1 were having tuition simultaneously, twice a week - 1.5 hours per lesson.
Pri. 3 - Before I supervised Tan, she did not know any timetable, how to deal with 1+1 or 2-1 or read “a” or “the”, not to mention about the other words, no matter how her father coached her since kindergarten. Upon guiding her in addition and subtraction, she understood how to deal with them. After I had taught her to read one page of her Pri 3 English textbook of about fifty words and requested her to read before me instantaneously, she knew how to read almost all the words. I told her to learn her timetable at home when I had guided her how to obtain 1×2=2 and 2X2=4. On the next lesson, she mentioned 1 to 12 timetables to me, i.e., 144 times, but made only about 4 or 5 mistakes! Later I tutored her in her problem sums and she knew her schoolwork.
Pri 1 - Before instructing Shirley, she scored zero for her English and Chinese spellings even though her parents had been teaching her through Nursery, Kindergarten 1 and 2 and January Pri 1. After 1 week of tuition with her, she secured 50% for her spelling, 70% for the second week, 90% at the third week and 100% at the end of the fourth week.
b) Pri 5 - Lee, an EM2 pupil, got 66% for her Maths at the 3rd term. Her father worried that she might receive 50 plus percent for her Secondary School Maths. Before supervising her, I realised that she forgot how to handle elementary multiplication and division problem sums and basic fractions. Thus I had to guide her from the fundamentals. During the final semester, she clinched 79%; at Pri 6 first term, she performed 98% for her result, surpassing the EM1 pupils. I viewed her examination papes and discovered that she managed to grapple with the extremely challenging questions, except making an error in a minor part.
c) Pri 3 - The sudent was quite clueless about “Han Yu Pin Yin” (Chinese Phonetic Alphabet). After I had conducted one tuition assignment wiith him, he sat for his test a few weeks later without informing me and clenched 96%. At that assessment, he had to match, for instance, the “che” and “ng” with one of the four sounding strokes with the corresponding Mandarin character.
d) Pri 4 - Lim, fared extremely weak academically, having obtained 36% for her Science. Eventually, she got double the marks to secure 72% as a result of my tuition at the next term.
3) Perhaps we can utilise Singapore Ministry of Education syllabi since I was teaching with them. Besides, our syllabi are systematic, of a high standard and our students fared among the top in international tests.
4) In fact, I can instruct from the toddler level. I was from the Science stream in Upper Secondary level at Crescent Girls’ Secondary School, one of the top 20 schools in Singapore. After my GCE “O” level, I took up Diploma in Accounting, which consisted of Accounting, Costing and Economics.
5) I may not be extraordinarily brilliant, however, if I can aid local and global (inclusive of third world developing nations supported partially by the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund or Asian Development Bank, etc.) nations to establish greater economies and students whose results are turning out worse and cater to more clients in the world with my services and products, why not?
6) Teachers will still be indispensable to facilitate the classes, attend to any of their charge’s queries, mark their wards’ assessment papers and guide the minors morally the instant they commit any impropriety, etc.
7) I’ll see you at your conference. I appreciate your consideration on all the above issues and look forward to hearing from you positively as expeditiously as possible.
Yours sincerely,
Margaret Leow
Tutor cum Writer