On Monday, 11/18, HP introduced ICF (International Cryptography
Framework), a technique for hardware-based encryption. It's supported
by the U.S. government, and has support from Microsoft and Intel.
Details are in PC Week, available online at

   <http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/content/pcwo/1118/pcwo0002.html>


More exciting (to me) is the lineup for the ACM97 conference,
March 3 - 5, 1997, with an expo from March 1 - 4. HP's connection
to this is a presentation by Joel Birnbaum (Director of HP Labs)
on "non-electronic computing." (I don't even know what this is!)

In addition, the lineup includes (but certainly is not limited to):

- James Burke as moderator (The Day the Universe Changed, Connections)

- Bob Metcalfe as conference chair (inventor of Ethernet)

- William Perry on how computing will impact the national security
    of the US and the world (US Secretary of State)

- Vinton Cerf on the future of the Internet ("father of the Internet")

- Murray Gell-Mann on complex systems and the convergence of physics,
    biology, and information technology (Nobel Prize winner in physics,
    "partner in crime" with the late Richard P. Feynman)


--Glenn Cole
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