Google, Nokia, Amazon and Qualcomm -- See what's in store from MoMIT

[Itay Sharfi]

We hope you all enjoyed Rich Mironov's talk on Pricing Strategies.  Here's a
brief glimpse of the exciting things coming in the pipeline from the MoMIT
Club this semester featuring speakers like *Paul Jacobs (CEO of Qualcomm),
Rich Miner (Google Android) and Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the World Wide
Web).*

Read on for more details:

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*MobileCamp2 Boston
* *Saturday, March 21th (E51, 9-5pm)*

The "Unconference" conference: sessions will be determined based on what
participants want to discuss. *Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide
Web* in 1989 and wrote the first web client and server in 1990, is confirmed
to attend.  This event is held in conjunction with Mobile Monday Boston and
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium).
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Opportunities in Mobile Applications*
*Monday, April 6th (**Walker Memorial, 7-9pm*)

The speaker panel will feature industry heavy-hitters including:*
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  - *Rich Miner (Google Android)*
  - *Jeremy Wright (Nokia)*
  - *Walt Doyle (ULocate)*
  - *Chuck Goldman (Apperian)*

The Mobile Showcase will follow the panel where 11 teams will present and
demonstrate their mobile applications.

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**"It From Bit: An Overview of RFID"*
*Wednesday, April 15th (**E51-395, 12-1pm)

* Yael Maguire, co-founder and CTO of ThingMagic and a MIT MediaLab
graduate, will speak about the emerging trends in the use of RFID
technologies.  This promises to be an exciting glimpse into the future
applications of a very innovative technology.
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****Paul Jacobs, Qualcomm CEO*
*Wednesday, May 6th (Bartos Theater, MIT Media Lab, 5:30-7pm)

*Paul Jacobs, the CEO of Qualcomm, will be joining us in May for a MoMIT
talk.  Look for more details on the topic of his presentation as the date
nears.
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**MoMIT Lab*

We are finalizing opportunities with companies that will be part of this
semester's MoMIT Lab.  Here's sneak peek at one of the projects (this one is
with Amazon):

*Amazon Payments (division of Amazon.com) is exploring new ways to extend

its current portfolio of payment services into the mobile payment space.

Specifically, the purpose of this project would be to explore how Amazon

could enter the physical payments space (paying for goods and services in

retail stores and at restaurants) using mobile phones. *

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As always, we will send out more details for each event as the dates near so
keep on a lookout for more emails from MoMIT.  *If you are not yet a MoMIT
Club member and would like to join, please drop a note to Fan Jin (
fan...@sloan.mit.edu).

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Sincerely,


Your MoMIT Co-Presidents
Ayusman, Fan, Itay and Murali