Opening Remarks - Cloud Symposium

The document announces a Compute-2009 conference on January 9, 2009 hosted by ACM Bangalore Chapter about cloud computing. It notes a 1961 John McCarthy speech where he predicted computing may become organized as a public utility like the telephone system. The document lists enabling technologies for cloud computing like service-oriented architecture, web services, distributed/scale-out computing, and virtualization. It also mentions improvements in languages, performance, and systems management. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Prasaad Ram from Google India to provide perspectives on cloud computing.