1. Beijing 1421 and 1434
   1. Looking outward from Beijing City
   2. 郑和 Zheng He
      1. Picture comparing Zheng He vs. Columbus' ships
      2. Navigational Technologies
         1. Astronomy
         2. The same principle of Photosynth
            1. Astronomy: Geometry in the Large
            2. Photosynth: Geometry in the small
            3. Augmented Reality
            4. D'Fusion
      3. 永乐大典
         1. The evidence of China ignited the renaissance
         2. The trail of the "Maps"
         3. The importance of information archive
            1. When China destroyed its knowledgebase
            2. The buring of books
2. The Ocean of Knowledge
   1. The legacy of WWW
      1. Tim Berners-Lee
      2. Semantic Web
   2. Search Engines
      1. Google
         1. The statistical "values" of natural language
         2. A real-estate business in natural language
      2. Microsoft
         1. Bing
         2. Bing and Wolfram Alpha
      3. The last mile in the Information Highway
         1. 繁体中文 Chinese as the most sophisticated written language
         2. Hytung Books
            1. Some data from Hytung
            2. Use Pivot to visualize Hytung Books
3. Ways to visualize Information
   1. A new kind of browser
      1. Collection XML Schema
      2. Collection Image Content
      3. Pivot Client
   2. The Temporal structure of information
      1. Temporal Logics
      2. Timed Media Players
      3. iPhone and iPad
         1. Interactivity
         2. Accelerameter
   3. The functional relationships between information
      1. Use GraphPlot/GraphPlot3D/LayeredGraphPlot
      2. Discrete Mathematics
   4. Mathematica Notebook as a browser
   5. Signal Processing
4. What is knowledge?
   1. Action Guiding Information
      1. When will you use what tools, how?
      2. Tool list
      3. How?
      4. Decision procedures
   2. A rich library of information processors
      1. Mathematica
      2. Matlab
      3. Other tools
   3. Cloud Computing
      1. A concept
      2. A new programming language
5. Beijing Today
   1. A society enabled by Computable Mathematical Instruments