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Conference program
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Saturday, August 24
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 9:00am | Space opens (please don’t arrive before nine!) |
| 9:00-10:25am | Registration; refreshments; mingling |
| 10:25-11:20am | • Opening remarks • Keynote talk: Let’s make local and accountable tech! (Dawn Walker) |
| 11:20-11:30am | Break! |
| 11:30am-12:05pm | Session the First: • Programming with only exceptions! (Nicole Tietz-Sokolskaya) • Let’s run a tiny chess neural network by hand! (Amédée d’Aboville) • The Astrolabe! Using modern digital computing to recreate ancient analog computers (Jes Wolfe) |
| 12:05-1:55pm | Break for lunch |
| 1:55-2:30pm | Session the Second: • A brief history of keyboards! (Jesse Chen) • Recreating Sketchpad, the first GUI! (Adam Solove) • Images from a 1970s Typewriter!! (Phil Warren) |
| 2:30-2:40pm | Break! |
| 2:40-3:25pm | Session the Third: • bang! bang! he murdered math! {the musical!} (Taylor Troesh) • Huggable Data! Making the Ephemeral Last Longer with Textile Dataviz! (Aldís Elfarsdóttir) • Keyboarding Ain’t Easy?? What Not To Do When Building a Keyboard!! (Liz Frost) • The Perfect Blend!! Reverse engineering a bluetooth protocol for better smoothies! (Ryan Mast) |
| 3:25-4:25pm | Unconferencing! |
| 4:25-5:00pm | Session the Fourth: • How to design your own microchip!!! (Omar Rizwan) • Let’s find random things on the street, with full-text search! (Yufeng Zhao) • It wasn’t me, it was the cosmic rays! Blaming physics for our evil actions! (Matías Lang) |
| 5:00pm | Wrap for the day |
Sunday, August 25
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 9:00am | Space opens (please don’t arrive before nine!) |
| 9:00-10:25am | Registration (for anyone who didn’t register Saturday); refreshments; mingling |
| 10:25-11:10am | Session the Fifth: • It’s alive…. IT’S ALIVE!!! Braitenberg Vehicles! (Have you ever seen an AI like this??!!) (Devon Tao) • Lord Zeus, defender of travelers and of those far from home, please create a function called printBeerInsideLoop with parameter n! (Daniel Temkin) • 88 Files a Second - Running Flappy Bird inside MacOS Finder! (Nolen Royalty) • This is the poem that doesn’t end!! or, the poetics of RNG! (Alicia Guo) |
| 11:10-11:20am | Break! |
| 11:20am-12:05pm | Session the Sixth: • Algorithmically Generated Flower Beds!! (inspired by Ancient & Modern Polychrome Textiles) (Rebecca Ravenoak) • Exploring the Invisible: Adventures in the Electromagnetic Spectrum! (blinry) • Backtraces in the Mirror: Stealing the Secrets of Elves and Dwarves to Perform Mad Science!! (Julian Squires) • Making Chinese Typefaces! with Components!!??!! (Ivan Zhao) |
| 12:05-1:55pm | Break for lunch |
| 1:55-2:40pm | Session the Seventh: • Calculating the Ideal “Sex and the City” Polycule! (Juan Pablo Sarmiento) • SATisfying Answers to Difficult Questions! (Vaibhav Sagar) • How to stop worrying and collect early web Banner Ads! (And make art along the way!) (Richard Lewei Huang and Yufeng Zhao (as Switcheristic Telecommunications)) • Riveting Insights! Bridge.watch and the State of America’s Infrastructure (Maryanne Wachter) |
| 2:40-2:50pm | Break! |
| 2:50-3:25pm | Session the Eighth: • Domain names! Where do they come from??? (Wesley Aptekar-Cassels) • Mutating Text Toward Better Nonsense?! (Max Kreminski) • It’s skeuomorphin’ time!! The enduring physicality of braille! (Santiago Gepigon III) |
| 3:25-3:45pm | Break! |
| 3:45-4:30pm | Keynote talk: Saving Voyager 1! (Bruce Waggoner) |
| 4:30-5:00pm | Thanks and closing remarks |
| 5:00pm | The End! |