2005 O'Reilly Emerging Tech Conference Registration Opens

For Immediate Release
For more information, contact:
Suzanne Axtell (707) 827-7114 or suzanne@oreilly.com

Registration Opens for the
2005 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference

Sebastopol, CA--Registration has just opened for the next O'Reilly
Emerging Technology Conference, aka ETech, happening March 14-17, 2005
in San Diego, California. Because new applications, services, and devices are
simultaneously converging and morphing like never before, ETech 2005
explores the culture of "Remix." Hackers and other innovators have
embraced the do-it-yourself renaissance, tweaking here, integrating there,
and creating new tools for the rest of us to use. These unexpected
combinations--and the opportunities they present--are the driving force
behind ETech.

The O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference doesn't just bring together
new technologies--it's also is a place for invaluable human interaction,
particularly for developers, IT decision-makers, lead users, engineers,
and researchers of every stripe. Just a few of the intriguing people and
projects coming to the conference include:

- Law Professor Lawrence Lessig points the way to an open and remixable
 future
- Google's Peter Norvig takes us to the outer edge of search technology
- Arthur van Hoff, principal engineer at TiVo, turns television into an
 operating system on which to build applications and to which the next
 level of video content can be delivered
- Writer and technologist Cory Doctorow sees the Internet as an ecosystem,
 parasites and all
- Analyst Clay Shirky espouses the value of semi-structured data in
 rescuing semantics from the Semantic Web
- Noted programmer Joel Spolsky infuses character and quality into online
 communities through software and design choices
- Flickr founder Stewart Butterfield opens up, embracing web services and
 network effects as a startup strategy
- Hardware hackers Tom Igoe and Raffi Krikorian build small, simple
 microcontroller-based network objects
- Kathy Sierra brings the latest research in cognitive science, brain
 chemistry, and psychology to bear on creating passionate users
- ETech program chair and O'Reilly CTO Rael Dornfest joins with founder
 and CEO Tim O'Reilly to detail what's currently blipping on the "O'Reilly
 Radar"

As in past years, ETech allows for maximum exposure to new ideas and
technologies through roll-up-your-sleeves tutorials, meaty and to-the-point
plenary presentations, real world focused breakout sessions, a relevant
exhibit hall, and thought-provoking events. Conference program chair Rael
Dornfest plans to add sessions up to the last minute, so that ETech
participants have the opportunity to investigate late-breaking issues.

As Dornfest puts it, "The O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
celebrates the hands-on imperative of the hacker, champions an
architecture of participation on which to build the future, and shines a
light on the innovations coming from non-traditional sources in an effort
to get them on to everybody's radar. What you touch at ETech, you'll be
using in the products, applications, and services of tomorrow."

Additional Resources:

For complete conference details, visit:
http://conferences.oreilly.com/etech/

To request media credentials, go to:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/36/press.html

Early registration prices end January 31, 2005. For details, see:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/36/register.html

Press coverage, blogs, photos, and news from the 2004 O'Reilly Emerging
Technology Conference can be found at:
http://www.oreillynet.com/et2004

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