"Sensors and Sensing"
October 21-23, 2001
L'Auberge Del Mar, Del Mar, California

DRAFT AGENDA

Sunday, October 21, 2001

1700 – 1900		Welcome Reception – Lobby Terrace

Monday, October 22, 2001

0730 – 0800		Breakfast – Crosby Terrace

0800 – 0830		Introduction – Convergence – Crosby Ballroom
•	Main themes; backdrop; overview of topics and structure; focus on capabilities
•	Round-the-table introductions
•	Review of main points from last conference; discussion of "rabbits" that got away

0830 –0930		Discussion – The Sensing Landscape
•	What are we sensing?  What can we sense?  How should we sense?
•	Where is innovation taking place?  Where are the convergences?

0930 – 1000		Break

1000 – 1115		Panel – Sensing at the Molecular Scale
•	Applications – MEMS dust, nanoscale spectroscopy
•	Artificial sensing systems, fiberoptic sensing, single-molecule sensing
•	Where are the convergences, what are the possibilities?
•	What can be done remotely?

1115 - 1230		Panel – Sensing at the Macro Scale
•	Environmental monitoring, ecosystem changes, forensics
•	Randomly ordered and/or distributed sensor arrays
•	Remote species identification
•	Scalability – should you do macro sensing with micro sensors?
•	Remote sensing vs. sensing in situ

1230 – 1330		Lunch – Pacific Terrace
			Distribution of Scenarios / Combinatorial Exercises

1330 – 1430		Group Discussion: Scenarios / Combinatorial Exercises
•	If you have a Chinese menu of technologies, what could you do with them?….
•	What is the potential of these technologies?  What happens when the unexpected converges?

1430 – 1545		Panel – Humans as Sensors
•	Social network analysis, mapping, cultural anthropology for warning and detection
•	[Networks of volunteers?]
•	Personal monitoring devices, immunosensors, DNA sensors

1545 – 1615		Break

1615 – 1730		Panel – Imitation is Flattery – Biological Agents as Sensors
•	Biomimetics, Chemical sensors, bio-silico hybrids

1800 – 2200		Cocktail Reception and Dinner – Polo Room

Tuesday, October 23, 2001

0800 – 0830		Breakfast – Crosby Terrace

0830 – 0945		Panel – Intelligent Sensors / Virtual Sensors – Crosby Ballroom
•	OSINT, information collection, latent semantic indexing, [AI], multi-sensor cueing

0945 – 11:00		Panel – Beyond the Technology: The Business of Sensing
•	Who is investing?
•	What unusual patterns of research and funding are out there and how might they be monitored to "sense" Dr. Evils?
•	What is the value of gaming?
•	Must international law be amended to support the business of sensing?

11:00 – 1130		Break

1130 – 1300		Working Lunch: Red Team and Final Discussion
Red Team: will present "what was missing" from first day's scenarios and combinatorial exercises and will guide wrap-up discussion.