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SpeechTEK Announces 2004 Keynote Speakers

LEXINGTON, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 10, 2004--The inventor of the World Wide Web, a leading software visionary and the two of the foremost political communications strategists in the world will keynote SpeechTEK 2004, September 13-16 at the New York Marriott Marquis.
Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web; Steven Mills, senior vice president and group executive, IBM Software; and political consultants and commentators James Carville and Mary Matalin receive top billing for SpeechTEK's 10th Anniversary and the largest conference agenda ever.

"These are people who are changing the world," says John Kelly, publisher and editor-in-chief of Speech Technology Magazine, principle sponsor of SpeechTEK events. "We've lined up the marquis names in technology and communications to help us celebrate the 10th Anniversary of SpeechTEK."

A different keynote speaker will begin each of the first three days of SpeechTEK beginning with Steven Mills on Monday, September 13 (8:30 AM); Tim Berners-Lee on Tuesday, September 14 (8:30 AM); and Carville/Matalin on Wednesday, September 15 (8:00 AM).

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Tim Berners-Lee

A graduate of Oxford University, England, Tim holds the 3Com Founders chair and is a senior research scientist at the Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He directs the World Wide Web Consortium, an open forum of companies and organizations with the mission to lead the Web to its full potential, and teams at MIT in the USA, at INRIA in France and at Keio University in Japan.

With a background of system design in real-time communications and text procession software development, Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative global information sharing while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory. He wrote the first Web client (browser-editor) and service in 1990. His initial specifications of URI's, HTTP and HTML were refined and discussed in larger circles as the Web technology spread. IN 1994, he founded the World Wide Web Consortium. His research time at CSAIL is spent designing Semantic Web languages and writing in Python. He is the author of "Weaving the Web," on the original design and ultimate destiny of the World Wide Web.

Steven Mills

Steve Mills was appointed senior vice president and group executive, IBM Software, in July 2000. He is responsible for shaping IBM's overall software strategy and directing IBM's $13 billion software business. Today, IBM's industry leading middleware products power the e-business infrastructures of many mid- to large-sized companies in the world.

Steve has played a leading role in the growth of IBM Software Group since its inception in 1995. He was general manager of IBM Software Group Strategy and Solutions, responsible for IBM's strategy for middleware and software solutions for e-business, as well as managing business units for Business Intelligence Solutions, Pervasive Computing, e-Commerce Solutions and Solution Technologies.

James Carville and Mary Matalin

James Carville is America's best-known political consultant. His long list of electoral successes evidences a knack for steering overlooked campaigns to unexpected landslide victories and for re-making political underdogs into upset winners. In 1993 the American Association of Political Consultants honored James as their Campaign Manager of the Year.

After guiding former president Bill Clinton to victory in 1992, James turned his attention to foreign consulting. His numerous clients have included British Prime Minister Tony Blair; Greek Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis; Brazilian President Fernando Enrique Cardoso; President Jamil Mahaud of Ecuador; and the Liberal Party of Canada. In 1999, he led Ehud Barak to victory in his campaign to become the Prime Minister of Israel.

James is co-host of CNN's Crossfire, the author of half a dozen best-sellers, including, All's Fair: Love, War and Running for President which he wrote with wife Mary Matalin, and has appeared in numerous movies and television programs. He was the focus, along with George Stephanopoulos of the feature-length Academy Award nominated documentary, The War Room.

Mary Matalin formerly served as assistant to President George W. Bush and counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney, the first White House official to hold that double title.

Mary is a well-known political commentator and has written for various periodicals including Newsweek and the Los Angeles Times. She is co-author, along with husband James Carville, of the best selling book All's Fair: Love, War and Running for President. Her latest book, Letters to my Daughters, was released in April and has already been named a Book of the Month Club selection as well as a New York Times and Washington Post bestseller.

Before joining the Bush/Cheney White House, Mary hosted CNN's Crossfire. She is the former founding co-host of the Washington-based political talk show, Equal Time, which premiered in 1993 on CNBC. Knight Rider News Service called the program "the best talk show on television." The Mary Matalin Show, a three-hour afternoon radio program on the CBS Talk Radio Network, led to Mary's listing by Talkers Magazine as one of The 100 Most Important Talk Show Hosts in America in 1996, 1997 and 1998.

Launched in 1995, SpeechTEK Expositions and Educational Conferences are recognized worldwide as the industry's premier events focusing on products, services, applications, solutions and innovations in speech technology. SpeechTEK covers what every organization needs to know about speech solutions in a manner that enables attendees get up to speed fast with the most up-to-date information from the experts, authors, executives and companies leading the industry.

Qualified media may register in advance for SpeechTEK by contacting Doug Alexander, 859-278-2223, doug@amcommexpos.com.

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SpeechTEK 2004
Doug Alexander, 859-278-2223
doug@amcommexpos.com

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