Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior Joins CTO Forum Executive Board

Telepresence and Holography / Holograms - November 2008

Editor’s viewpoint on their differences, likenesses and future...

We all just recently viewed an historic CNN holographic interview on an historic Election Night. CNN stated this type of imaging has never been done before on National TV and I believe that. I haven’t seen anything like it. The live interview caught me by surprise and sure had the “wow” factor attached to it didn’t it? Here’s a link to the actual interview.

CNN Hologram Video

The question now has to be asked. Is it Telepresence?

I’m no expert on the subject but I’m going to throw my hat into the ring, go out on a limb and say yes, I believe it is. Although I know many video conferencing purists are rolling their eyes and grabbing their guns right about now with my statement.

While I do know that Telepresence still hasn’t been universally defined (Houston, we have a problem), here’s how I see it…. Broken down to its simplest form - “tele” (through electronic means) and “presence” (present). This is how I’m justifying my opinion by lumping holography and Telepresence together. Just as Telepresence is surely an offshoot of video conferencing, holographic imaging (like we viewed on CNN) surely has to be considered an offshoot of Telepresence. The interviewer was “telepresent” from Chicago and beamed into the CNN Election Headquarters. She was most assuredly - “telepresent”. There was negligible latency, the imaging was fantastic and both interviewers were rehearsed on what they would say. I’ve just recently read that CNN actually “downgraded” the experience to make it “movie” quality and not as good as it could have been. Maybe they thought us mere mortals would be shocked if they showed their complete hand. I have a feeling it was so big to them, they didn’t want it to get upstaged by the historic election. I’m willing to bet we’ll see the “true” power of this technology in the upcoming weeks and months when they can put the pedal to the medal and show it off without having it sidetracked.

What an amazing time for this technology (all differences and opinions aside). Telepresence Doctors, nurses, teachers, schools and healthcare (healthpresence) will benefit from the recent gains in this state-of-the-art industry whether holograms, Telepresence or holography. Airlines also have to see the threat to a portion of their business travel. Hell, who wants go through security and fly to Miami for a two-hour conference when you can look them in the eye via Telepresence?

Beam me up Scotty! Simply amazing…!

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. (Business Wire EON) July 22, 2008 -- "It is a tremendous honor to have Padmasree serve on the CTO Forum Executive Board," said Basheer Janjua, founder and chairman of the CTO Forum and CEO of Integnology Corporation. "She brings a world of experience, vision and energy which will help transform this institution into a global innovation platform. I truly appreciate Cisco's commitment and support for the CTO Forum and look forward to working with Padmasree."

Warrior joined Cisco in December 2007 as chief technology officer (CTO). Warrior comes to Cisco from Motorola, where she was Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. As a CTO, Warrior plays a key leadership role in the continued development and communication of Cisco's technology strategy and vision.

Warrior, 47, was named Motorola's CTO in 2003 and held numerous positions at the company over her 23-year career, including corporate Vice President and General Manager of Motorola's energy systems group and corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Motorola's Semiconductor Product Sector. Warrior holds an M.S. degree in chemical engineering from Cornell University and a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi, India. In 2007 she was awarded a doctorate of Engineering, honoris causa from New York's Polytechnic University. Warrior is an external director on the board of Corning Corporation.

About the CTO Forum

The CTO Forum brings together the best minds in the technology industry to define opportunities, and to collaborate in harnessing, the extraordinary potential of technology. The CTO Forum's mission is to deliver a Global Innovation Platform, where technology leaders collaborate and co-create the technology and solutions that will be critical to meeting tomorrow's global opportunities and challenges. See http://www.thectoforum.net.

About Integnology

Integnology is a leading IT Consulting and Systems Integration firm specializing in Business Intelligence (BI), Enterprise Web 2.0, Executive Consulting and Virtualization. These practices are led by highly capable leaders and teams with extensive industry experience. In addition, Integnology is the founder and organizer for two exceptional communities; the CTO Forum and the CIO Council. See http://integnology.com

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