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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
Ex-49er Ben Vinegar's panel proposal for "Web Service APIs Your Mom Will Love" was one of the first 30 accepted for SXSW Interactive 2008. I won't be able to attend (yet another mid-March'08 event), but I look forward to hearing from those of you who do.
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Thursday, October 11th, 2007
IPSI Public Lecture Series Fall 2007
The Identity, Privacy, and Security Initiative (http://www.ipsi.utoronto.ca) at the University of Toronto is launching public seminar series this fall.
Location: Galbraith Building, Room 120 (35 St. George)
Times: Mondays, noon-1PM.
Oct 1: Kostas Plataniotis (Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UofT)
Biometrics & Authentication Technologies
Oct 15: Svetlana Yanushkevich (Dept ...
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
The Distinguished Lectures series in Computer Science at U of T has just been announced. It's quite a list:
Oct 30: Jon Kleinberg (Cornell)
Nov 27: Sanjeev Arora (Princeton)
Dec 11: Robert Kahn (CNRI)
Jan 8: Lydia Kavraki (Rice)
Jan 22: Carla Ellis (Duke)
Feb 5: Rick Rashid (Microsoft)
Feb 12: Luis Von Ahn (CMU)
Mar 4: Sebastian ...
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Friday, September 14th, 2007
4:00 on Saturday September 15th at the Rivoli (334 Queen Street West)
Free!
This month's topic is: Old Habits Die Hard: Can we change before the Climate does?
Think you've heard everything there is to know about climate change?
Here is a bit of a new spin on an old topic:
Can humans change ...
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Thursday, September 13th, 2007
On October 10, Ontarians will be voting for a new government, and also for a new voting procedure: if enough people say 'yes', we will shift to a Mixed Member Proportional system. The details are on the web, but basically this gives everyone two votes: one for a (geographic) riding ...
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
Leila's post has the details: best five entries win an iPod Shuffle.
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Monday, September 10th, 2007
"Ferocious Beauty" is a multimedia dance piece which explores genetic research and its impact on society. (Yes, I know, it sounds a little odd, but friends who have seen it have said it's great.) The announcement is below; see these two posters for more details. The Ontario ...
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Monday, September 10th, 2007
Prof. Randy Pausch, of Carnegie-Mellon University, has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. He's going to give a talk (probably his last) on Tuesday, Sept 18, at 4:30 pm, titled "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams". It will be webcast (details to follow). Blurb is below; hope you'll be able ...
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Sunday, September 9th, 2007
...and StreetKnit could use your help.
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
David Crow has posted an update on the status of DemoCamp 14 (Sept 17, downtown, registration free but required). It looks like a cool lineup of demos, and yours truly will be giving a five-minute talk on Beautiful Code. Hope to see lots of you there...
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