The Future Seminar

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Today was the Brown Bag Speaker Series topic The Future of the Internet: Concepts.

Multimedia slides only: http://www.otoole.info/AIP/seminars/Future-Web-Concept/slides.html
Recorded Presentation: http://www.otoole.info/AIP/seminars/Future-Web-Concept/

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