Speaking to a standing-room-only lecture hall lined with dozens of students and faculty members, he spent the last minutes of his presentation reading off the names of students, post-doctoral fellows, collaborating groups and funding sources from a projected slide that listed even more of them.

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Jobs was clear, inspiring, polished, passionate, and delivered the entire presentation without reading from slides or notes.

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After reading about Thermos's presentation on Forbes.com, ZRTP's developer Phil Zimmerman countered in a statement that the protocol wasn't actually vulnerable to eavesdropping.

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Peto barely addressed that concern in his presentation, but the increase is highly statistically significant by one reading of the data.

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