PALO ALTO, CA -- Hot Interconnects 2002 will be held at Stanford University this year between August 21-23. Advance registration ends on July 30. Hot Interconnects 10 brings together designers and architects of high-performance chips, software, and systems at the University and global business levels. Presentations focus on up-to-the-minute developments demonstrating leading-edge designs by engineers and researchers throughout the world. Three days of tutorials and technical sessions will keep participants on top of the latest industry and academic laboratories. This year Vint Cerf, nicknamed "The Father of the Internet", an Internet pioneer involved in the early design the ARPANET and a co-author of TCP/IP, will appear as a keynote. Eric Brewer, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist for Inktomi, will deliver a keynote on the second day of the conference. Technical session topics include Gigabit switching Technologies Gigabit routing Technologies High-speed packet scheduling Multiprocessor, cluster, and Storage Area Networks High-speed packet processing engines Wireless/optical interconnects. The panel discussion will be lead by Dave Liddle, General Partner at U.S. Venture Partners. In January 2000, Mr. Liddle retired as president and CEO of Interval Research Corporation, a Silicon Valley-based laboratory and incubator for new businesses focused on broadband applications and advanced technologies, founded in 1992. The conference homepage is on-line as: http://www.hoti.org/ The final program is listed below, and is on-line as: http://www.hoti.org/sessions.html For more information, contact the Program Chair: John Lockwood Assistant Professor of Computer Science Washington University in Saint Louis lockwood@arl.wustl.edu