[Ltg] HAIL Seminar *Reminder* (15th October): Gabor Cselle, NextMail Corporation, USA

[Andrew Lampert]

                      H.A.I.L. Seminar series
                          CSIRO ICT Centre
                   http://www.ict.csiro.au/HAIL/


Title:      The Future of Email

Speaker:    Gabor Cselle
            Founder/CEO
            NextMail Corporation

Date:       *** NOTE UNUSUAL SEMINAR DAY ***
            Wednesday 15th October 2008 at 11am

Location:   CSIRO ICT Centre,
            Building E6B, Macquarie University.

            See <http://www.ict.csiro.au/HAIL/location.htm> for details.

Video:      We usually stream live video of seminars.

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URL:        <http://www.ict.csiro.au/HAIL/Abstracts/2008/GaborCselle.htm>

Abstract

Email clients haven't moved forward since the mid-1990s. Most applications have added superficial features, but the basics remained unchanged: Folders, lists of disconnected emails sorted by arrival time. Clients have no sense of priority, urgency, workflows, or connectedness. Their search features are simple and are sometimes painfully slow. Users today are bombarded with email and find popular email clients hard to use and inefficient.

How did we get here? How do we get out of it? This talk will show new ideas of improving the email experience for overloaded users. Gabor will also talk about commercial opportunities in this field, illustrated with his own experience in Silicon Valley at his previous startup, Xobni, the maker of a popular Outlook-based application.


Short resume

Gabor wants to radically improve your email experience, and is currently starting a new company in the field of email and group collaboration.

Before, he was the VP Engineering at Xobni, where we invented and built a popular email tool for Outlook. Before Xobni, Gabor was a Software Engineer at Google. He has a Master's degree in Computer Science from ETH Zurich in Switzerland, where he wrote his thesis on "Organizing Email".

Gabor's blog can be found at <http://www.gaborcselle.com/blog/>



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