Blind Information Technology Specialists
2008 Convention program Schedule
Louisville, Kentucky
July 4 - July 12, 2008
Sunday, July 6
10:00 am
Opening remarks President Richard Villa
10:10 am
Introductions
10:30 am
Clash of the OCR systems.
Presenters:
Dusty Voorhees, Senior Product Manager: FreedomScientific, St. Petersberg Fl.
Stephen Baum: Vice-president of Engineering Kurzweil Educational Systems Bedford, MA
Linda Braithwaite Adaptive Technology Consultant Salt Lake City UT
Advantages and disadvantages of mainstream verses specialized scanning software.
1 pm
Vendor showcase.
Presenters:
Adaptive hardware and software exhibiters
Come see what's new.
Monday, July 7
1:30 pm
Beyond Form: surfing today's web
Presenters:
Guido D. Corona
Michael Squillace, Research Scientist IBM Human Ability &Accessibility Center, Austin, TX
Brad Hodges Technology Program Associate American Foundation for the Blind Huntington WV
3 pm
Remote Access Successes and Challenges
Presenters
Ricky Enger, Remote Access Technology Specialist: Serotek
8:30 pm
BITS mixer.
Bites with BITS
Tuesday, July 8
12:30 pm
BITS Luncheon
Speaker:
Larry Skutchan: Technology Project Leader:
Department of Education Research, APH Louisville, KY
2:00 pm
BITS business meeting.
Wednesday, July 9
1:30 P.M.
BITS / FIA Joint session: The digital book revolution:
Presenters:
Neil Bernstein Research and Development Officer, National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped Library of Congress Washington D.C.
Nicki Coby, student
ichael Malver, student
John Glass Customer Support Manager, Bookshare Palo Alto, CA
3:00 pm
Converting analog recordings to digital format
Presenters:
BITS and FIA members
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