Join the ATLAS Colloquium March 30, 2021 on Zoom to hear Ken Krechmer’s talk, “The Role of Technical Standards in Enabling the Future.” Krechmer will be discussing how to predict the future using technical standards. A better understanding can be found by looking into the history of such standards, including six successions of technical references/standards—symbols, measurements, designs, similarity, compatibility, and adaptability (figure 1)—based on general set theory. Standards successions offer an evolutionary technology model, showing why market control occurs and where new value is created.

Ken Krechmer is a scholar in residence in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. Ken Krechmer started his technical career working as an engineer for several electronics companies in the 1960s and 1970s. After founding one electronics company and working in sales and marketing for three others, he began standards consulting in 1980. He was a founder and the technical editor of Communications Standards Review and Communications Standards Summary 1990-2002. In 2009 he was adjunct lecturer at the University of Colorado Boulder. He was Program Chair of the Standards and Innovation in Information Technology (SIIT) conference in 2001 (Boulder, CO), 2003 (Delft, Netherlands) and 2007 (Calgary, Canada); and was a co- Program Chair of SIIT 2009 (Tokyo, Japan) and SIIT 2011 (Berlin, Germany).  He was Conference Chair of SIIT 2115 (Sunnyvale, CA, USA). Krechmer is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

The Brown Bag series meets Tuesdays at 11:30 am -12:30pm on Zoom. The seminar is also the 1 credit ATLAS Seminar ATLS-7000 course.

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Email ellen.do@colorado.edu for any questions!