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Julian Horwich is the founder
of
CAMP Conferences, Inc.
The organization's
goal is to provide assistance to corporate IT management and staff in
making strategic and tactical information technology decisions.
CAMP is in its 24th year producing conferences, tradeshows, and seminars aimed at that goal.
Julian has been involved in information technology for 43 years. He
initially was a systems engineer with RCA's computer division, but much of
his corporate career was in IT management and staff positions at
pharmaceutical and health care companies. A major focus was computer technology
for drug research applications.
Widely quoted in IT publications during the 1980s and 1990s, InfoWorld
said of him in their March 16, 1992 issue: "Julian Horwich is
literally a household name in the microcomputer management community".
His academic background includes undergraduate study in electrical and
biomedical engineering at Northwestern University, graduate study in
computer science at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and continuing
education at Northwestern both in digital electronics and musical theater.
His interest in producing events began as an undergraduate when he
convinced a professor to give a lecture on Northwestern's IBM 709 vacuum
tube computer to the student chapter of the AIEE-IRE (IEEE). He
also worked on event planning for a student religious
organization at Northwestern and the Chicago chapter of the Association
for Computing Machinery (ACM). Julian organized the first international conference of the SAS Users Group International (SUGI) in
1976, drawing statisticians and computer professionals from seven
countries.
In the 1970s and 1980s Julian was a member of several organizations
involved with promoting socially responsible application of technology.
He authored a handbook for the ACM's Computer Ombudsman program, and
was the first editor of the organization's newsletter. Julian
was also a member for a dozen years of the Northbrook Illinois Rotary
Club, including a term as the editor of their weekly newsletter.
His experience supporting business users with personal computing began
in the 1960s using early timesharing terminals. In the 1970s, and
early 1980s, he spoke widely on the future of personal computing,
e-mail, and application development. He has been a guest speaker
at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and Lake
Forest College, as well as many computer industry conferences. His most
recent talk was at the Chicago Palm
Programmer's Group ( CPPG ) on "Programming Palm OS Beaming". He has authored
several articles on pharmaceutical research computing, personal computing, and
e-mail, and compiled the book "Pharmasources: A Directory of Software for
Pharmaceutical Applications".
Julian has programmed computer software for mainframes,
minicomputers, microcomputers, PDAs and cellphones. His first business
software project was a payroll system written in Assembly language on
the RCA 301 mainframe computer in 1965. He later wrote a number of
scientific applications for pharmaceutical research. His most recent
software development include several commercial personal productivity software
packages for handheld devices on the Palm OS and Symbian OS
platforms, using the C and Visual Basic programming languages. Other
programming languages he has used for application development include
Microsoft Access, JavaScript, FORTRAN, COBOL, SNOBOL4, RPG. He
recently implemented a web-store for CAMP Conferences' attendee registration using
the Shopsite e-commerce software.
Julian, and his wife Evey, have two married sons and a grandson, and
live in the
north suburbs of Chicago.
"I'm always impressed with the group of people that
CAMP is able to pull together...It's because of the people here and the
companies you represent."
........Bill Gates speaking to
an audience of over two thousand IT professionals at
one of his seven CAMP
Conferences appearances.
CAMP Conferences, Inc.
540 W. Frontage Rd., Suite 2205, Northfield, IL 60093
Phone: 847-784-0591
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