Next General Meeting:
Meeting Preview: John Patrick—State of the Internet
Date: April 5, 2011
Location: Danbury Hospital Auditorium
24 Hospital Avenue, Danbury, CT, doors open at 6:30 p.m.

By Richard DiFranco

John Patrick is returning to bring us up to date on the state of the Internet. It has been said that PC technology changes every two years. It has also been said that Internet technology changes every two months. John will be telling us what the next year will bring us and how the Internet will be changing our lives in the coming year. How have social networks grown and how important are they. What is the effect of iPads and notepad computers in general?

John PatrickJohn has been giving DACS an Internet update for many years. He was there at the beginning of the Internet with IBM and now with his own company Attitude LLC. Being a member of many Internet related groups, John can see and may control the direction of the Internet.

John was a founding member of the World Wide Web Consortium at MIT in 1994, a founding member and past chairman of the Global Internet Project, a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a member of the Internet Society and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He is a member of the Engineering Advisory Board at Lehigh University. John has been a business and technology advisor to numerous companies. His book, Net Attitude, paints a vivid picture of the future of the Internet and the attitudes needed to capitalize on it. His new blog is called Health Discussions Forum. He is pursuing a doctoral degree in health administration through the University of Phoenix. Also he is a board member of Western Connecticut Healthcare which includes Danbury Hospital and New Milford Hospital. His presentation on the future of the Internet will have a health care focus.

Take a look at John's website patrickweb.com. You can get a sense of how active John has been.

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DACS meetings are held at the Danbury Hospital auditorium. (Click here for directions.) Activities begin at 6:30 p.m. with registration and casual networking. The meeting starts at 7:00 p.m. with a question and answer period (Ask DACS), followed by announcements and a short break. The featured evening presentation begins at 8:00. The meeting is scheduled to adjourn at 9:30 p.m.

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