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Creating Rich Interactive Web Applications Using AJAX

Today, Web pages are limited in functionality compared to most desktop applications. AJAX helps to create a user experience on the web that is similar to that on the desktop by making web applications more interactive and functional. AJAX marries the graphical user interface of desktops computers with the benefits of the web.

By blurring the lines between desktop and web applications, AJAX is providing new ways to deliver products and services and is creating a new bread of companies that are challenging the stronghold of establish giants.

As web users become more confident with the medium, so do their expectations of it. Users are demanding constant access to their applications from any location and AJAX is destined to be a key part of future web applications.

This event will focus on the technology and business value to consumers, corporations and investors. Join us for this special presentation!

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Speaker
Scott Isaacs, Architect, Microsoft Windows Live
Scott Isaacs is an Architect on Microsoft Windows Live responsible for the web-client architecture and frameworks used across MSN/ Windows Live properties and Windows Live DHTML Gadgets. Scott is an internet veteran and during the mid to late 90’s authored the original DHTML specification and represented Microsoft in the W3C helping define and drive many Internet standards.