8:45am Wednesday, 03/05/2008
How to Kick Ass
Keynote Marina Ballroom D
Kathy Sierra (Creating Passionate Users)
What does it take to be really, really, really good at something? Are our tech tools making us smarter, dumbing us down, or...? The good news: having a "natural talent" for something is a lot less crucial for expertise than we thought. .
9:15am Wednesday, 03/05/2008
An Open Source Platform for Personal Robots
Keynote Marina Ballroom D
Steve Cousins (Willow Garage)
In this talk we introduce an open source platform for personal robots that integrates the best technologies from various areas of robotics and work from top research institutions, within a flexible and lightweight modular architecture. .
9:40am Wednesday, 03/05/2008
Personalizing the Device: How Communities Will Help Actualize User-generated Hardware and the Long-tail of Gadgets
Keynote Marina Ballroom D
Peter Semmelhack (Bug Labs)
Open innovation and advances in collaborative development will help usher in the era of user-generated hardware. This talk will focus on user-driven personalization and specialization as it relates to personal hardware devices. .
9:55am Wednesday, 03/05/2008
Elephant 2000: A Programming Language for the year 2015 Based on Speech Acts
Keynote Marina Ballroom D
John McCarthy (Stanford University)
Elephant 2000 is a proposed programming language good for writing and verifying programs that interact with people (e.g. transaction processing) or interact with programs belonging to other organizations (e.g. electronic data interchange) .
11:00am Wednesday, 03/05/2008
The EFF's "On A Brighter Note..."
General Marina Ballroom F
Danny O'Brien (Electronic Frontier Foundation), Cindy Cohn (Electronic Frontier Foundation), Kevin Bankston (Electronic Frontier Foundation), Emily Berger (Electronic Frontier Foundation), Tim Jones (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
A more-optimistic-than-usual Electronic Frontier Foundation reveals: near-future technology that will help defend your rights, policy initiatives that could help save the Net, and techniques you can bake into your work that will help preserve freedom online. .
11:50am Wednesday, 03/05/2008
Context Hacking: Some Examples of How to Mess with Art, the Media System, Law and the Market
General Marina Ballroom F
Johannes Grenzfurthner (monochrom, and University of Applied Sciences Graz)
The term "context hacking" refers to unconventional forms or intervention of communication. Johannes Grenzfurthner will present projects by monochrom, a worldwide operating collective from Vienna. .
2:00pm Wednesday, 03/05/2008
Hackers Built My Motorcycle
General Marina Ballroom E
Pablos Holman (Komposite)
The process of innovation begins with discovery. Hackers are constantly disassembling the world around them. Pablos Holman will show all kinds of delightful and surprising things that hackers are capable of. .
2:50pm Wednesday, 03/05/2008
Disaster Tech: What is working and what is coming
Mission Hills
Jesse Robbins (O'Reilly Radar), Mikel Maron (Mapufacture)
Twitter and Google Maps are being used in mainstream emergency management, and projects like InSTEDD will push them even farther. This session shows you what is working, what isn't, and what's next in Disaster Tech. .
2:50pm Wednesday, 03/05/2008
Really, Really, Really Intimate Interfaces
General Marina Ballroom E
Kyle Machulis (Nonpolynomial Labs)
Fitt's Law applies a lot of places in UI design, but sex isn't one of them. What can we learn from sex hardware interfaces? If an interface is inviting enough that someone is willing to have the most intimate of experiences using it, can we apply these ideas to, say, installing printer drivers? .
4:05pm Wednesday, 03/05/2008
Reality Mining: Inference in Complex Social Systems via the Mobile Phone
General Marina Ballroom D
Nathan Eagle (MIT)
Teaching mobile phones to learn from people's behavior: predicting future activities, inferring relationships, quantifying organizational rhythms. .
7:00pm Wednesday, 03/05/2008
Coding Against Corruption
Keynote Marina Ballroom D
Lawrence Lessig (Creative Commons)
More info will be provided soon. Lessig has discussed corruption on his blog (lessig.org/blog).
8:00pm Wednesday, 03/05/2008
Emerging Arts Fest
Event Marina Ballroom D
Regine Debatty (We Make Money Not Art), Kati London (area/code), Natalie Jeremijenko (NYU), Scott Varland (NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP)), Adam Simon (NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP)), Michael Dory (NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP)), Paul Torrens (Arizona State University), Ryan McManus (Barbarian Group LLC), Andrew Bell (Barbarian Group LLC), Andrea Vaccari (Senseable City Lab, MIT), Tucker Balch (Georgia Tech), Stewart Tansley (Microsoft Research), Eric Kabisch
The first ever Emerging Arts Fest provides a showcase for artists to present their vision of the intersection of art and technology. .