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<b>Title: "Building Microsoft Office or what it is like to order
pizza for<br>
400,000,000 people"<br><br>
Date: Wednesday October
19, 2005<br>
Time: 5:15pm<br>
Refreshments: 5:00pm<br>
Location: 34-101<br>
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In this highly interactive talk you will see what it is like to
design<br>
the next generation Microsoft Office and what it is like to design
and<br>
build the interface that will be used by hundreds of millions of
people.<br>
You will learn how a small team designed and developed a new
metaphor<br>
for computer-human-interaction that improves upon the Xerox PARC<br>
developed metaphor of drop down menus and the decades old metaphor
of<br>
toolbars. You will get a sneak preview of the new Office
"12" product.<br>
There will be plenty of time to ask questions and learn about
Microsoft<br>
and the different opportunities for you. No questions are off
limits<br>
and all are welcome!<br><br>
Bio: Steven Sinofsky is the senior vice president of Office
System<br>
development in the Business Software Division at Microsoft. He
oversees<br>
the development team that creates Microsoft Office (Word, Excel,<br>
PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, InfoPath), OneNote, FrontPage,
Publisher,<br>
Visio, Project, SharePoint, and a few things not yet announced! He
is a<br>
graduate of Cornell University in Computer Science and Chemistry, and
of<br>
the University of Massachusetts in Computer Science. In 1998 he was
a<br>
Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School. In the Fall of 2004
he<br>
lived in Beijing, PRC on assignment for Microsoft.<br><br>
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Speaker: Steve Sinofsky, Microsoft
Office System Development<br>
Host: Prof. Michael
Cusumano, Sloan<br>
Further Info: Ken Goldman, MIT Office of Corporate Relations<br>
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