At a computer conference, during a coffee break, I decided to interview a CEO of a now-defunct, Route 128 software firm.
They met in 1984 at a Ben Rosen-Esther Dyson computer conference and started going on "virtual dates" by driving to the same movie at the same time in different cities and discussing it on their cell phones.
The glitz and girls of Las Vegas make it a perfect venue for a computer industry conference, he said.
The team plans to demonstrate its findings at the Black Hat computer security conference, which begins July 27 in Las Vegas.
The prime minister will also chair a European Union conference on the computer bug next month.
But last week, at Dell World in Austin (a great first conference for the computer maker, by the way), the pieces fell into place all at once.
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Last year , at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, computer scientist Andrei Costin discussed weaknesses he said he found in a new U.S. air-traffic security system set to roll out next year.
In a Thursday afternoon presentation titled "Hacking Capitalism" at the Black Hat conference, a gathering of computer security experts, they detailed weaknesses in applications using Financial Information eXchange Protocol, or FIX, a common language used in communications between banks and commercial markets.
Other conference goers, many of whom are Gadgetoff regulars, also shone: including Amazon's Jeff Bezos, TED conference founder Richard Saul Wurman, computer engineer Danny Hillis, polymathic inventor Dean Kamen, sly literary agent John Brockman and Creative Good's Mark Hurst.
At the TED conference in Los Angeles, architect and computer scientist Skylar Tibbits showed how the process allows objects to self-assemble.
The Centre also includes three classrooms that will be used for journalism courses, computer training and English lessons, as well as a conference area and projection room that will be used as the base for a cinema club.
Who, after all, could imagine the likes of Dickie Bird - an old-fashioned Yorkshireman, if ever there was one - emerging from a an ICC conference in Cape Town armed with a laptop computer, as the eight elite umpires did last March.
Linux is front of mind for many large computer companies this week, as the annual Linux World technology conference takes place in New York.
Carter told hundreds of industry executives and military officials at the conference that protecting the country's privately-controlled computer networks raised myriad antitrust and privacy questions that needed to be addressed more quickly.
Customers do most of their banking on computer screens, and can connect with Standard Chartered specialists elsewhere by video-conference if they need help.
Earlier this month, Iain Lobban, the head of GCHQ, told a cyber security conference in London that a "significant" attempt was made to target the computer systems of the Foreign Office and other government departments over the summer.
Sumit Gupta, product lead for high performance computer at Nvidia, recalls the amused interest the company faced at the U.S. Supercomputing conference three years ago.
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Meanwhile, at a tech conference in Florida, there was reason for a little optimism from the second-largest computer company, Hewlett-Packard (nyse: HPQ - news - people ).
Apparently, the 11 conference commissioners, the ND Director of Athletics, the Harris panelists they nominate, and the computer algorithms prioritize something else.
Mr. Page's comments come one day before the start of Google's annual conference in San Francisco for software developers who create applications for Google's Android and Chrome computer-operating systems.
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Microsoft has shown off the next version of Windows 8 at its BUILD conference in California, giving 5, 000 developers a Samsung tablet running the operating system, Computer World reports.
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