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Saturday, 23 February 2019

Time	Event
9:00am	Space opens (please don’t arrive before nine!)
9:00 - 10:30am	Registration; continental breakfast; mingling
10:30 - 11:10am	Opening remarks and keynote talk: The Best Parts! Of My Favorite Things! (Lynn Cyrin)
11:10 - 11:25am	Break!
11:25am - 12:15pm	First Session! IMUs FTW!! Building IMU-based gesture recognition! (Jennifer Wang) EarthBound’s almost-Turing-complete text system! (Alex Rasmussen) /etc/services is made of people! (and also ports!) (Breanne Boland) “Wheels within whiles!” or possibly “Whiles within wheels!” (Michael Albaugh)
12:15 - 1:25pm	Lunch is served!
1:25 - 2:15pm	Second Session! Help! How do you let others know what’s going on when you’re 8000 feet up in the air in a plane without an engine?! (Tobias Bieniek) Let’s translate old video games! How do they even work?! (Misty De Méo) if … then … else had to be invented! (Erica Fischer) Keeping abandoned watches ticking! (Katharine Berry)
2:15 - 2:35pm	Break!
2:35 - 3:20pm	Third Session! Everything the light touches is a triangle: how computers draw! (Molly Lloyd) Fast code! By removing all branches! (Jeroen (Jerry) van Leeuwen) Making blackout poetry with computers! (Max Kreminski) Generating fractals … with SQL queries!!! (Michael Malis)
3:20 - 4:15pm	Unconferencing!
4:15 - 4:50pm	Fourth Session! That’s hot! (Ori Bernstein) This one simple 600-year-old trick makes your website more accessible! (Nick Piesco) How DNS doesn’t work! (Arshia Mufti)
4:50 - 5:00pm	Closing remarks and wrap for the day (dinner, etc., on your own)

Sunday, 24 February 2019

Time	Event
9:00am	Space opens (please don’t arrive before nine!)
9:00 - 10:30am	Registration (for anyone who didn’t register Saturday); continental breakfast; mingling
10:30 - 11:15am	Opening remarks and keynote talk: Glitch Nuggets of Resistance! (VJ Um Amel)
11:15 - 11:30am	Break!
11:30am - 12:20pm	Fifth Session! Guiding a starship with noise! And blinking! (Simon Porter) The secret life of Not-a-Number! (Annie Cherkaev) Hacking Lego! Computer generated Lego instructions! (Michael Knowles) The world’s first racing-the-beam ray tracer on discarded FPGA hardware!!! (Tom Verbeure)
12:20 - 1:50pm	Lunch is served!
1:50 - 2:40pm	Sixth Session! Robots, rockets, and more! Control theory in 10 minutes (Wesley Aptekar-Cassels) Minimax search and the structure of cognition! (Zack M. Davis) Postgres plays Pokémon! (Liz Frost) Software patterns … from the 9th century?!! (Michael Arntzenius)
2:40 - 3:00pm	Break!
3:00 - 3:50pm	Seventh Session! How to throw out 95% of pixels in virtual reality, without anyone noticing!! (Amrita Mazumdar) How to calculate the phase of the moon very, very badly! (André Arko) Value Your Types! (Eric Weinstein) The Conjuring: ransomware edition!! (Pranshu Bajpai)
3:50 - 4:10pm	Break!
4:10 - 4:45pm	Eighth Session! Observability in the Kitchen: Improve Your Breadmaking Skills with Open-Source Monitoring!! (Daisy Tsang) Computers are fast! But how come they sometimes feel slow? (Emilia Lazer-Walker) My, my, TTY! (Tabitha Sable)
4:45 - 5:00pm	Thanks, closing remarks, and end of conference