September 17 & 18 Ace Metal Crafts, Franklin Park IL

Conference Schedule - Saturday

Time	Event/Person	Description
8:00 AM30	Registration and Conference Room set up	Ron Johnson, Paul Hubbert, & Richard Nelson (may need a little help)
8:30 AM30	Registration starts	No registration cost.  Dinner and misc. is $20.  Get Conference materials.
9:00 AM15	Conference Starts	Announcements, Schedule adjustments, etc.
9:15 AM45	Attendees	Introductions.  Give us your name, where you are from, your interests, and why you choose HP.
10:00 AM20	Attendees	Group Photograph - we may skip this, individual photos will be taken during registration.
10:30 AM10	Richard J. Nelson	NEWT Microprocessor and 41CL Progress Report.  Monte Dalrymple couldn’t make it this year.
10:40 AM15	Break	Introduce yourself to at least one new person.
10:55 AM25	Gene Wright	HP’s New 48/49 AUR.
11:20 AM20	Tim Wessman	Description of the Winning Entry in HP’s 2005 Create-a-calc Contest.
11:40 AM20	Eric Smith	Nonpareil Emulator, Update for HHC 2004.  Add to HHC 2005 CD?
12:00 AM90	Lunch	Encore or other restaurant within walking distance.
1:30 PM40	Namir Shammas	Root Seeking Methods, Survey of root-seeking algorithms.
2:10 PM55	Cyrille Marie Henry Hervé de Brébisson, HP R&D Manager	Digging past the core of the Apples.  Beyond the skin (User RPL), the flesh (System Rpl) and the core (Assembly) lies the seeds (ARM system) of the Apples’ platform (HP graphing series) where everything is possible...
3:05 PM25	Lee-Khuan Goh, HP Marketing Manager	Marketing issues: What’s happening.
3:30 PM25	Cyrille & Lee-Khuan	General HP Q & A.  This is your opportunity to “Ask HP.”
3:55 PM20	Break	Introduce yourself to a second new person.
4:15 PM20	Paul Hubbert	Battery Update, Bargain Accessories for the HHC User.
4:35 PM30	Rick Furr	HP Calculator & Curta Posters.  How they came to be, some are available here.
5:05 PM30	Brian Walsh	HP49 Programming User Interface Example for Applications
5:35 PM25	Frank Travis	Bring back the midrange scientific!
6:00 PM60	Richard J. Nelson	Magnets, A Change of Pace Demonstration.  They sing, they fly, and they mystify.
7:00 PM30	Adjourn for dinner	The only Conference cost: $20 for dinner and other drinkables and edibles.
7:30 PM120	All Attendees	Conference Dinner at Sorrento’s Italian restaurant - 1.5 miles.
9:30 PMopen	Time & topic to be announced	ER?
11:00 PM	End of First Day	Drag off to bed; we don’t start as early on Sunday.

September 17 & 18 Ace Metal Crafts, Franklin Park IL

Conference Schedule - Sunday

Time	Event/Person	Description
10:00 AM10	Conference reconvenes	Announcements, schedule changes, etc.
10:10 AM20	Ron Johnson	HP LightScribe Recordable Disc Labeling Technology.
10:30 AM40	Namir Shammas	Solve For HP Calculators, Comparison of SOLVE in different HP calculators.
11:10 AM35	Wlodek Mier-Jedrzejowicz	Delayed Evaluation, and why RPN users hate unreliable keyboards.
11:45 PM20	Break	Introduce yourself to your third new friend.
12:05 PM30	Eric Smith and Richard Ottosen	New Classics.
12:35 PM20	Gene Wright and Wlodek Mier-Jedrzejowicz	HP’s Teachers Conference Report: Ideas for the future?
12:55 PM75	Lunch	Same as yesterday.
2:10 PM40	Tim Wessman and John Evers	The “Virtual Calculator” is about our online calculator program designed to demonstrate use of the DC49 to the public. The DC49 hardware will also be covered.
2:50 PM20	Jake Schwartz	The HPCC Datafile CD - One An Additional Year, plus some Adobe Acrobat Observations.
3:10 PM15	Richard J. Nelson	Using An HP48/49 Program To Create More Powerful Solver Equations (Programming Exercise style). (Time may not permit)
3:25 PM20	Richard Schwartz	Solving Certain Polynomials of Interest (on the HP-30S which is supposedly non-programmable)
3:55 PM15	Break	Ask that last question of your new friends.  We are near the end.
4:10 PM15	Best Speaker Award	Attendees vote.
4:25 PM20	Door Prize Drawing	Keep your registration number handy.
4:45 PMopen	User’s forum	General HPUC Q&A, suggestions for HHC 2006, Community questions, problems & issues.
6:?? PM	Conference Concludes	Have a safe trip home.  Join us for breakfast tomorrow morning (usually the next conference is discussed).

RJN Note:  Is this our last Conference?  Do we have enough continuing interest to have future Conferences after a run of 29 conferences?  Our attendance is constant.  Nearly every other HP User Group has ceased to function.  What is or should be our future?