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Conference Kick-off: Making Cars Drive Themselves
 Sebastian Thrun
Director of the Artificial Intelligence Lab and Leader of the Stanford Racing Team, Stanford University 
This talk will introduce the audience of LinuxWorld 2008 to the fascinating world of robotic cars. Most of us use cars in our daily lives; yet cars are inefficient, unsafe, and environmentally wasteful. Robotic technology promises to overcome some of these shortcomings by making cars safer; drivers more productive; and also by reducing the burden to the environment by enabling new models of car sharing.
Thrun will present Stanford's research on the basic artificial intelligence behind this new emerging technology. In particular, he will report from two recent autonomous car competitions, organized by DARPA, and dubbed "Grand Challenge" and "Urban Challenge." Machine perception, computer vision, machine learning, and probabilistic computation all play major roles in the design of these systems, as did the Linux operating system.
Thrun will shed light onto the inner workings of these robots, and discuss the impact of self-driving cars on society once the technology is sufficiently matured.
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 Golden Penguin Bowl
Moderator: Jeremy Allison, Co-Creator, Samba
Three geeks match will line up against three nerds and match intellectual wits in this battle for who can recall the most inane trivia regarding sci-fi, high-tech, Linux and all things geek. Always irreverent and massively entertaining, watch host Jeremy Allison make fools of the contestants, audience, (in)famous companies and, most importantly himself. The winners garner bragging rights and the coveted golden penguin.
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Green is Still the Color of Money
Moderated by: Don Tennant
Vice President/Editorial Director Computerworld & InfoWorld
Panelists:
Andy Rawson, AMD
Senior Member Technical Staff and a Member of The Green Grid Technical Committee
John Wallerich, Intel
Senior Data Center Architect and a Member of The Green Grid Technical Committee
Rich Lechner, IBM
Vice President for IT Optimization
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Mass Collaboration and Linux: How achievements in server, mobile and desktop help each and every Linux user
 Modorated by: Jim Zemlin
Executive Director, The Linux Foundation
Never before in the history of the computing industry have there been so many developers and companies putting their collective contributions into one project – the Linux operating system. The stats speak for themselves: in just the last two years, 3200 developers have contributed to the Linux kernel. 2000 lines of code have been written every day. 1762 unique kernel contributions have been logged in one year alone. There is a new Linux kernel release every 2 ½ months and a new Linux distribution release every six months.
This discussion will give specific examples of major Linux milestones in business and on the desktop that have resulted from this mass community effort. The illustration Zemlin depicts is an important one for any Linux stakeholder or commercial open source company that is trying to translate community momentum into market penetration. It will also serve as a way for LinuxWorld attendees to more clearly understand how the development process works, what influences specific features and how to get involved at the level that makes sense for their individual or company requirements.
Jim will lead a panel featuring leaders from each major Linux trend including:
| » | Server: Hear directly from a lead maintainer of the kernel on where Linux is headed. |
| » | Mobile: Motorola and Google are basing the future of mobile computing on Linux. How will this impact the enterprise? |
| » | Desktop: What's really behind the Walmart Linux PC story.
Panelists:
James Bottomley
Key Linux kernel sub-system maintainer and chair of the Linux Foundation's Technical Advisory Board
Christy Wyatt
Vice President, Ecosystem and Market Development for Motorola's Mobile Devices business
David Liu
Founder, gOS
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