Day |
Date |
Time | Activity / Meeting | Topic | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday | May 11 | 7:15 am | Departure from Geneva KL292 from Zürich KL300 6:55 am Transfer to KL605 (Amsterdam) |
Latest check-in at 6:30 (GVA) 6:15 (ZHR) |
Done |
| 1:35 pm | Arrival San Francisco International airport, transfer to Palo Alto by bus |
Customs & Immigration |
Done | ||
| 4:00 pm | Arrival in Holiday Inn | Check-in hotel | Done | ||
| 7:00 pm | Group dinner McArthur Park Restaurant | Welcome dinner offered by SVA |
Done | ||
| Monday | May 12 | 8:30 am | Departure from Holiday Inn, Palo Alto | ||
| 9:00 am | Stanford University | Guided tour of the campus |
Done | ||
| 11:00 pm | IDEO Product Design, Palo Alto | Industrial design of High Tech products |
Done | ||
| 1:30 pm | Harmonic Lightwaves, Santa Clara (visit includes lunch) | High speed laser communication equipment |
Done | ||
| 4:30 pm | Return to Holiday Inn, Palo Alto | Evening free |
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| Tuesday | May 13 | 8:30 am | Departure from Holiday Inn, Palo Alto | ||
| 9:00 am | Digital Network Systems, Palo Alto (visit includes lunch) | Alta Vista and other related products | Done | ||
| 1:30 pm | Unisys, Santa Clara | Commercial computer solutions, PC manufacturing | Done | ||
| 7:00 pm | Dinner Party offered by Unisys | Done | |||
| Wednesday | May 14 | 9:30 am | Departure from Holiday Inn, Palo Alto | ||
| 10:00 am | Center for Telecommunications, Stanford University | Presentation by Prof. Dale Harris | Cancelled | ||
| 11:00 am | Center for Distance Learning, Stanford University | Done | |||
| 12:30 pm | Faculty Club, Stanford University, Palo Alto. Lunch with Larry Leifer and Charles Petrie of the Stanford Center for Design Research | Offered by SVA | Done | ||
14:30 pm |
Afternoon free for shopping and local sightseeing | ||||
| Thursday | May 15 | 9:00 am | Departure from Holiday Inn, Palo Alto | ||
| 9:30 am | Visit to WebTV, Palo Alto, presentation by Bill Yundt, VP networking | Done | |||
| 2:00 pm | Cisco Systems, San Jose | End-End solutions |
Done | ||
| 7:00 pm | Silicon Valley Party, Stanford Barn (hosted by the Stanford Internet Center) | Offered by SVA with guests from Silicon Valley |
Done | ||
| Friday | May 16 | 9:30 am | Departure from Holiday Inn, Palo Alto | ||
| 10:00 am | Visit of the Intel musem | History of the Silicon Chip |
Done | ||
| 11:00 am | Visit to NetSchools, Mountain View, presentation by Thomas Greaves, President & CEO | Advanced educational technologies |
Done | ||
| Saturday | May 17 | 10:00 am | Departure from Holiday Inn, Palo Alto | ||
| 10:30 am | Fry's, San Jose | Electronic Superstore |
Done | ||
| 12:00 pm | Sightseeing visit to the Mirassou winery and the Monterey peninsula | Winery tour and visit to the aquarium |
Done | ||
| Sunday | May 18 | 6:00 a.m. | Departure to Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco with the group from Stanford Research | Participants are encouraged to join the race | Done |
| p.m. | free time | ||||
| Monday | May 19 | 9:00 am | Departure from Holiday Inn, Palo Alto | ||
| 9:30 am | Adobe Systems, San Jose | Publishing & Internet software |
Done | ||
| 12:00 pm | Apple Computer, Cupertino. | Technology directions |
Done | ||
| 7:00 pm | Dinner party offered by Apple Computer | Guest speaker Guy Kawasaki | Done | ||
| Tuesday | May 20 | 9:00 am | Departure from Holiday Inn, Palo Alto | Check-out hotel |
|
| 9:30 am | BE Inc, Menlo Park | BE operating system |
Done | ||
| 11:30 am | Mac Arthur Park, Palo Alto | Closure lunch SVT guest Eric Dorsey Hyundai Electronics |
Done | ||
| 13:30 am | Departure for San Francisco airport KL606 4:10 pm |
Done | |||
| Wednesday | May 21 | 3:45 pm | Arrival Amsterdam 11:35 am Arrival Geneva/Zürich |
Done |