Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 22:44:53 -0400 From: Robert Hettinga Subject: DCSB: Scott Guthery; CtrlShft in the Smart Card Industry The Digital Commerce Society of Boston Presents Scott Guthery CertCo, Inc. CtrlShft in the Smart Card Industry Tuesday, July 7, 1998 12 - 2 PM The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston One Federal Street, Boston, MA The advent of customer-programmable and field-loadable smart cards has caused a control shift in the smart card industry from card manufacturers to card issuers. While this would seem to be good for issuers and bad for manufacturers, the other side of this ... er, card ... is that anybody can become an issuer. This talk will describe the available programmable smart cards and some of the business cases being built on top of them. Scott Guthery leads the cryptographic device project at CertCo. He has a PhD in Probability and Statistics from Michigan State University and worked at Bell Laboratories and Schlumberger before joining CertCo. At Schlumberger he received two patents for his contributions to Schlumberger's oil well logging system and lead the team that invented the Java Card, a smart card that runs Java. He has published articles in number theory, programming languages and network protocls and is the co-author of the soon-to-be published book, "Smart Card Developer's Kit." This meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston will be held on Tuesday, July 7, 1998, from 12pm - 2pm at the Downtown Branch of the Harvard Club of Boston, on One Federal Street. The price for lunch is $32.50. This price includes lunch, room rental, various A/V hardware, and the speaker's lunch. ;-). The Harvard Club *does* have dress code: jackets and ties for men (and no sneakers or jeans), and "appropriate business attire" (whatever that means), for women. Fair warning: since we purchase these luncheons in advance, we will be unable to refund the price of your lunch if the Club finds you in violation of the dress code. This meeting will be recorded for sale on CD. If you're interested in a CD of this meeting for $35, or a yearly DCSB CD subscription for $350, please contact Joan Pumphret of Audio Elements at . We need to receive a company check, or money order, (or, if we *really* know you, a personal check) payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", by Saturday, July 4th, or you won't be on the list for lunch. Checks payable to anyone else but The Harvard Club of Boston will have to be sent back. Checks should be sent to Robert Hettinga, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02131. Again, they *must* be made payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", in the amount of $32.50. Please include your e-mail address, so that we can send you a confirmation If anyone has questions, or has a problem with these arrangements (We've had to work with glacial A/P departments more than once, for instance), please let us know via e-mail, and we'll see if we can work something out. Upcoming speakers for DCSB are: August TBA September TBA October Peter Cassidy Intellectual Property Rights Management We are actively searching for future speakers. If you are in Boston on the first Tuesday of the month, and you would like to make a presentation to the Society, please send e-mail to the DCSB Program Commmittee, care of Robert Hettinga, . For more information about the Digital Commerce Society of Boston, send "info dcsb" in the body of a message to . If you want to subscribe to the DCSB e-mail list, send "subscribe dcsb" in the body of a message to . We look forward to seeing you there! Cheers, Robert Hettinga Moderator, The Digital Commerce Society of Boston ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' Philodox: , e$: