Putting the power of digital communication into pen and paper

by Örjan Johansson & Petter Ericson

Wednesday 9 Oct 2002, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

503/1-001 - Council Chamber (CERN)

Pen and paper is one of the biggest information technologies in the world, and it is still to be connected to the digital domain. Anoto has invented a system combining a digital pen with application-specific paper. In the talk we will explain how paper becomes digital screens with a completely natural user experience, and how the Anoto infrastructure connects any given paper with any service across the Internet. BIOS: Örjan Johansson, Chairman of the Board, Anoto Group AB is the dynamic force behind the creation of a broad coalition of partners supporting Anoto's standard for digital paper and digital pens enabling Anoto functionality. Before joining Anoto, Johansson spearheaded the global development of Bluetooth -the short-range radio technology, as Director and General Manager for Bluetooth at Ericsson Mobile Communications AB. For nearly two years Johansson was responsible for developing the technology and leading other competing companies to adopt the open standard. Johansson initiated and supervised the establishment of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, made up of adopter companies, and was responsible for bringing 2000 international technology companies on board. Mr. Johansson is a seasoned veteran of international business and technology with over twenty-years managing multinational teams and projects working in and around technological innovation. Örjan Johansson currently resides in Lund, Sweden. He has a Master's of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Lund Institute of Technology. Petter Ericson is one of the principal inventors of the Anoto Technology. He joined Anoto's parent company C Technologies at the very start, and was managing the software development team when the Anoto concept was developed. Mr Ericson is now Chief Science Officer at Anoto, with focus on strategic technology and business development. His speciality at the MSc. in Engineering Physics programme at Lund Technical University was computational physics. He also studied at Santa Clara University for a scholarship year. Petter Ericson currently resides in Malmö, Sweden.