-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- [The Harvard Club is now "business casual". No more jackets and ties, but see below for details. While it lasts, anyway. Since last year's dot-bomb, the suit-ratio in the main dining room has been asymptotically approaching unity. :-). --RAH] The Digital Commerce Society of Boston Presents Arnold Reinhold "Product 'Q': The Market Failure of Most Cryptographic Products" Tuesday, September 4th, 2001 12 - 2 PM The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston One Federal Street, Boston, MA The term "Q" is used in physics as a parameter that describes the quality of a resonant circuit. In product development Q is a metaphor for how difficult it is to meet potential market needs. This analysis will be applied to several past product successes and failures and then to present and proposed products of interest to electronic commerce. Arnold Reinhold is an independent computer consultant and author. He previously managed software development groups at Computervision Corp. and at Automatix Inc, which he co-founded. Mr. Reinhold is co-author of The Internet for Dummies Quick Reference and E-mail for Dummies. He holds a Masters degree in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School. He has created several web site dealing with cryptography including diceware.com and ciphersaber. This meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston will be held on Tuesday, September 4th, 2001, from 12pm - 2pm at the Downtown Branch of the Harvard Club of Boston, on One Federal Street. The price for lunch is $37.50. This price includes lunch, room rental, A/V hardware if necessary, and the speakers' lunch. The Harvard Club has relaxed its dress code, which is now "business casual", meaning no sneakers or jeans. Fair warning: since we purchase these luncheons in advance, we will be unable to refund the price of your meal if the Club finds you in violation of what's left of its dress code. We need to receive a company check, or money order, (or, if we *really* know you, a personal check) payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", by Saturday, September 1st, or you won't be on the list for lunch. Checks payable to anyone else but The Harvard Club of Boston will have to be sent back. Checks should be sent to Robert Hettinga, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02131. Again, they *must* be made payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", in the amount of $37.50. Please include your e-mail address so that we can send you a confirmation If anyone has questions, or has a problem with these arrangements (we've had to work with glacial A/P departments more than once, for instance), please let us know via e-mail, and we'll see if we can work something out. Upcoming speakers for DCSB are: October Jean Camp Trust and Risk in Digital Commerce As you can see, :-), we are actively searching for future speakers. If you are in Boston on the first Tuesday of the month, are a principal in digital commerce, and would like to make a presentation to the Society, please send e-mail to the DCSB Program Committee, care of Robert Hettinga, <mailto: rah@shipwright.com>. For more information about the Digital Commerce Society of Boston, send "info dcsb" in the body of a message to <mailto: majordomo@reservoir.com> . If you want to subscribe to the DCSB e-mail list, send "subscribe dcsb" in the body of a message to <mailto: majordomo@reservoir.com> . We look forward to seeing you there! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 7.0 iQEVAwUBO3wlgcUCGwxmWcHhAQHndgf9EilyGjWc0lcZBNojVxFaSMuDd0GIfahT xdukiqmeZ74RVcRtLsHnAIgyvG4uvqvDn5A96SGI4tI0JE3PIyP1VLWFewNLtcfh l6QAeDo6EMFzWEbgNFSaTF9htVJSrrXcBTCf3WkGBenD3ghPM5dPaRiRf/qwmbya phCZDe+0HiOF+EVn4a5jKoPiZr+krU+SpvnYO9TaatD3FLt9I3DWjAy+yDJSEI2J G/E4VMrYFpU1lwZl7QvQFXl6zGE7UE5YthMVkdKiUBGAWPvRfN5tN+btL5mD53ST zzIaqyWky+WkZ+GIGe4Z/aWMJr4mmbzCPN6eHnJhlg0LrAiMDnRjmw== =pwM3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "dcsb-request@reservoir.com" with one line of text: "help". --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'