[Sci-tech-public] TALK: Microsoft Sinofsky Office talk Wed Oct 19, 34-101, 5:15pm

[Debbie Meinbresse]

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