The Telluride Technology Festival is a Celebration of the Past, Present and Future of Technology.The Tech Fest is inspired by the historical fact that in 1891, Nikola Tesla, George Westinghouse and Telluride’s own L.L. Nunn built the world’s first commercial grade AC power plant in Telluride. The intimate mountain environment of Telluride, Colorado continues to be an ideal environment for discussion and reflection.

The next Tech Festival will be held October 1st and 2nd, 2010!

Each year, present day honorees are selected that exemplify the life, times and standard of contribution of Tesla, Westinghouse and Nunn, who not only changed the world, they electrified it.

Our 2008 Honorees were:

Kirstie L. Bellman, Ph.D., is a Principal Scientist in the Computer Systems Division and head of the Aerospace Integration Sciences Center (AISC), which she started upon returning to the Aerospace Corporation after four years at DARPA. AISC’s focus is on the development of advanced system and model integration methods, new analytic techniques, and evaluation tools for assessing the impacts of new technologies.

Brewster Kahle is Director and co-founder of archive.org. Brewster has built technologies, companies, and institutions to advance the goal of universal access to all knowledge. He currently oversees the non-profit Internet Archive as founder and Digital Librarian, which is now one of the largest digital archives in the world. His stated goal is “Universal Access to all Knowledge”.

Dr. Ted Selker has been an Associate Professor at the MIT Media Laboratory for ten years. Ted’s work takes the form of prototyping concept products supported by cognitive science research. Ted’s research has contributed to products ranging from notebook computers to operating systems. Among many computer innovations, he is known for the TrackPoint pointing device, shipped in over 20 million computers. His work is also applied to developing and testing user-experience technology and security architectures for recording voter intentions securely and accurately.