[Debian-NYC] Saturday 18 June 2011 ISOC-NY: Beyond the Bleeding Edge, a gathering for learning about our Net
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Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:28:56 -0400
To: announce_list <announce@isoc-ny.org>
From: ISOC-NY announcements <announce@lists.isoc-ny.org>
Subject: [isoc-ny] Beyond the Bleeding Edge: Confronting the Ghosts in the Machine
Reply-To: president@isoc-ny.org
Beyond the Bleeding Edge: Confronting the Ghosts in the Machine
Where: Warren Weaver Hall NYU, 251 Mercer St NYC, Room 109
When: Saturday, June 18, 1-5 pm
Who: Public Welcome. Admission Free.
"We have designed our civilization based on science and
technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one
understands science and technology. This is a prescription for
disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or
later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going
to blow up in our faces." - Carl Sagan
Never has a clear comprehension of the technology surrounding us
been more critical than today. We tell machines what to do and
hope they do it, and when they don't they leave us vulnerable to
technological accidents and acts of malice we cannot
comprehend. This event will bring together technologists from a
variety of disciplines and backgrounds to explore technology on
a granular level, from perspectives ranging from user behavior
in virtual environments to the exploitation of functions at the
hardware level.
SPEAKERS
David Solomonoff: Overview: Cargo Cults and Ghosts in the Machine
David Solomonoff is the President of the Internet Society of
New York (ISOC- NY), a chapter of the global Internet Society
(ISOC).
Hilary Mason: Big Data & Machine Learning
Hilary Mason is the lead scientist at bit.ly <http://bit.ly>,
where she is finding sense in web-scale data sets. She is a
former Computer Science professor with a background in machine
learning, has published numerous academic papers, and regularly
releases code on her personal site.
Josephine Dorado: Virtual Actions, Real World Effects
Josephine Dorado is a virtual worlds and online community
consultant, educator, interactive events producer and
skydiver. She was a Fulbright scholarship recipient and initiated
the Kidz Connect program, which connects youth internationally
via creative collaboration and theatrical performance in virtual
worlds. Josephine also received a MacArthur Foundation award to
co-found Fractor.org, which matches news with opportunities for
activism. She currently teaches at the New School and is the live
events producer for This Spartan Life, a talk show inside the
video game Halo.
Carol Parkinson: The Evolution of Computational Art
Carol Parkinson is the Executive Director of Harvestworks and has
been involved in the programming and development of the
organization since 1982. She is a founding member of TELLUS, the
experimental audio series and continues to support and distribute
experimental and innovative work in the digital media arts. Her
primary interest is the development of new technological tools
for art-making and the cultivation of a new aesthetic involving
sound and image in the electronic arts.
Aram Sinnreich: MondoNet: Wireless Mesh Networking By the People, For
the People
Aram Sinnreich is an assistant professor at Rutgers University's
School of Communication and Information, and the author of the
recent book "Mashed Up: Music, Technology and the Rise of
Configurable Culture". He has written about music, media and
technology for The New York Times, Billboard, and Wired, has
testified as an expert witness in several cases including the
Supreme Court file sharing suit MGM vs. Grokster, and has offered
his expertise as an analyst and consultant to hundreds of
companies, from the Fortune 500 to fledgling startups, since
1997.
Jeremy Pesner: Behavior While Under the Influence (of Gaming)
Jeremy Pesner graduated from Dickinson College in 2009 with a BS
in Computer Science. He is very curious about the digital
landscape and the elements shaping its future. His interests and
prior work include educational gaming, website design, tech
policy, government 2.0, and cloud computing. He will be attending
Georgetown University this fall in the Communication, Culture &
Technology program.
Mike Goodman: An Introduction to NES Hacking
Mike Goodman, aka Invaderbacca, has been creating visualizations
and hacking video games within the chip music community for
several years. He has developed a novel glove interface for
manipulating video signals in real time. He has performed at
venues including Blip Festival, Pulsewave, I/O Chip Shows and the
Engadget Show.
--
David Solomonoff, President
Internet Society of New York
president@isoc-ny.org
isoc-ny.org
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Internet Society - NYC Metropolitan Area Chapter
http://isoc-ny.org
'The Internet is for Everyone."
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