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ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA -- SGI (NYSE: SGI) CEO Bob Bishop will address the XIII World Congress on the long-term future of IT in Adelaide, Australia, today. Bishop joins other honored speakers at the congress, including former President Bill Clinton and several chief executives from global computer companies. The congress is expected to draw some 1,500 global senior-level executives and key government officials from the N Asia-Pacific region. Bishop, an Australian native, returns home to lead one of the interactive panel sessions at the conference, titled ``IT Frontiers.'' Joined by Dr. Stephen Younger, director of the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency; Dr. Hiroaki Kitano, with the Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project; Dr. Roger Brissenden, manager of the Harvard-Smithsonian Chandra X-Ray Observatory; and Professor Robert Clark, director, Special Research Centre for Quantum Computer Technology, Bishop will lead the panel members in a discussion of the most disruptive technologies currently on the IT horizon, including universal access to advanced visualization, autonomous robots and quantum information processing. The panel will discuss technologies that were thought impossible just a few years ago and are now within reach of fast-moving IT developments. Looking out to the end of the 21st century, the panel will address the potential that disruptive technologies will allow for the emergence of computer consciousness and silicon-based life-forms, and the question of what these developments will mean for human society. Held every other year since 1978, the World Congress on IT is the flagship event of the World Information Technology and Services Alliance, which is the global governing body for the information industry and counts among its members the national IT associations of 41 countries. For more information on the World Congress on IT or to request a transcript of this panel, please contact the Congress Media Center, +61-8-8210-6610, www.worldcongress2002.org.