The Magic and Beauty of Computer Science

Monday, January 12, 2009

7:30am-8:30am	Registration/Coffee
8:30am	Doors Open
9:00am-5:00pm	Summit
5:00pm-6:30pm	Reception

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

8:30am	Doors Open
9:00am-5:00pm	Summit
5:00pm-6:30pm	Informal dinner with your group at a restaurant of your choice..

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

8:30am	Doors Open
9:00am-5:00pm	Summit

Computer History Museum
1401 N Shoreline Blvd.
Mountain View, CA 94043

The Computer History Museum is dedicated to the preservation and celebration of computing history. The museum is home to one of the largest international collections of computing artifacts in the world, encompassing computer hardware, ephemera, photographs, moving images, documents and software.

Appreciative Inquiry is about the coevolutionary search for the best in people, their organizations, and the relevant world around them. In its broadest focus, it involves systematic discovery of what gives “life” to a living system when it is most alive, most effective, and most constructively capable in economic, ecological, and human terms. AI involves, in a central way, the art and practice of asking questions that strengthen a system’s capacity to apprehend, anticipate, and heighten positive potential. It centrally involves the mobilization of inquiry through the crafting of the “unconditional positive question” often-involving hundreds or sometimes thousands of people. In AI the arduous task of intervention gives way to the speed of imagination and innovation; instead of negation, criticism, and spiraling diagnosis, there is discovery, dream, and design. AI seeks, fundamentally, to build a constructive union between a whole people and the massive entirety of what people talk about as past and present capacities: achievements, assets, unexplored potentials, innovations, strengths, elevated thoughts, opportunities, benchmarks, high point moments, lived values, traditions, strategic competencies, stories, expressions of wisdom, insights into the deeper corporate spirit or soul-- and visions of valued and possible futures. Taking all of these together as a gestalt, AI deliberately, in everything it does, seeks to work from accounts of this “positive change core”—and it assumes that every living system has many untapped and rich and inspiring accounts of the positive. Link the energy of this core directly to any change agenda and changes never thought possible are suddenly and democratically mobilized.

Embassy Suites Santa Clara - Silicon Valley
2885 Lakeside Drive, Santa Clara, California, United States 95054
Tel: 1-408-496-6400   Fax: 1-408-988-7529
Map and Driving Directions
From Airports:   San Jose    San Francisco   Oakland

We have reserved a block of rooms at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Santa Clara at a special rate of $179 a night. The special room rate will be available until December 12th or until the group block is sold-out, whichever comes first. Transportation will be provided between the Embassy Suites Hotel and the Computer History Museum during the Summit. To book a room at the Embassy Suites Hotel, please follow the link below:
http://www.hilton.com/en/es/groups/personalized/SNCCAES-NPG-20090111/index.jhtml

Directions to the Hotel

The hotel is highly visible from US 101 North or South bound. North bound US Hwy 101,exit Great America Parkway/Bowers Ave. Turn left onto Bowers Ave. and proceed to Augustine Dr. Make a right on Augustine Drive. Proceed one block, turn right onto Lakeside Drive. Hotel is on right side. South bound US Hwy. 101, exit Great America Parkway and veer right onto Bowers Ave. First stoplight, turn right on Augustine Dr. Proceed one block, turn right onto Lakeside Dr. Hotel is on right. Valley Plaza Cafe located inside hotel.