John Markoff
Plenary Session Speaker
Information Technology

John Markoff is based in San Francisco as a senior writer for the New York Times where he covers Silicon Valley, computers and information technologies. Before coming to the Times in 1988 he covered Silicon Valley for the San Francisco Examiner beginning in 1985. He has also been a writer at Infoworld and in 1984 he was West Coast Technical editor for Byte Magazine. He is the coauthor with Katie Hafner of "Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier" (1991) and with Lenny Siegel of "The High Cost of High Tech" (1985). In January of 1996 Hyperion published "Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of America's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw," which he coauthored with Tsutomu Shimomura. He was named as one of Upside Magazine's Digital Elite 100 in 1996, 1997 and 1998. He has been on the TJFR list of 100 financial journalists for the past two years. He is currently on leave from the Times working on a book about Silicon Valley.

Say Cheese!

Be ready to look your best for the group photo, to be taken today at 3:30 right after the break. It is suggested that you wear your denim shirt.

If you have time . . .

Visit the Hoover Tower Observation Platform. For only $2.00, you can see a view of the campus for miles around. The tower also features an exhibition of memorabilia from Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover. It's open 7 days a week from 10:00 am - 4:30 pm.

Evening Sessions

Remember that tonight's evening sessions are optional! Also, you had to previously sign up for the Web Tools for Librarians class. Sorry, folks, but there's a 20 person maximum for that class.

Tech Night Pics

Dave "Pixel" Harmeyer takes a jet ride

Carol Ebbinghouse gets a jolt in the earthquake exhibit