Archive for the ‘Announcements’ Category

Ben’s Panel

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.

Identity, Privacy, and Security Lectures at U of T

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 ...

Distinguished Lectures at U of T

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 ...

Cafe Scientifique

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 ...

Ontario Votes on Voting

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 ...

Win Stuff at Idee’s Visual Search Lab

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

Leila's post has the details: best five entries win an iPod Shuffle.

“Ferocious Beauty” Coming to Toronto

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 ...

Randy Pausch

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 ...

Winter Is Coming…

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

...and StreetKnit could use your help.

DemoCamp 14 Update

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...