Conference program
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Saturday, 29 February 2020
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 9:00am | Space opens (please don’t arrive before nine!) |
| 9:00-10:30am | Registration; continental breakfast; mingling |
| 10:30-11:30am | • Opening remarks • Keynote talk: isis lovecruft |
| 11:30-11:45am | Break! |
| 11:45am-12:20pm | First Session! • You can weave software into hardware! And then fly to the moon!! (Katie Broida) • You can put WHAT in DNS TXT records?!?! (Breanne Boland) • Wolf, Goat, and Cabbage In Two Styles!! (Jason Orendorff) |
| 12:20-1:30pm | Lunch is served! |
| 1:30-2:20pm | Second Session! • The Ancient Greeks And Their Restless Cattle: A 2300 Year-Old Soap Opera About Big Integers! (Aaron Wood) • How To Host A Podcast For 25 Cents A Month! (Michelle Brenner) • Compilers for nothing, executables for free! (Vaibhav Sagar) • Writing Programs! That Write Other Programs!! (Nick Fitzgerald) |
| 2:20-2:40pm | Break! |
| 2:40-3:15pm | Third Session! • Plotty Bird - Making Modern Games on Retro Pen Plotters! (Wesley Aptekar-Cassels) • Reverse engineering game formats for fun and profit! (well, mostly just fun) (Spencer Alves) • ba-ding! (Lito Nicolai) |
| 3:15-4:10pm | Unconferencing! |
| 4:10-4:50pm | Fourth Session! • Sonification: You Can See Your Complex Data with Sound!! (don-E Merson) • Beyond the Black Rainbow: Why You Can’t Photo Infrared Rainbows, and Using Booleans to Do It Anyway! (Phil Warren) • Curses!! (Jeremy Apthorp) |
| 4:50-5:00pm | • Closing Remarks • Wrap for the day (dinner, etc., on your own) |
| 5:10pm | • Shuttle departs! |
Sunday, 1 March 2020
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 9:00am | Space opens (please don’t arrive before nine!) |
| 9:00-10:30am | Registration (for anyone who didn’t register Saturday); refreshments; mingling |
| 10:30-11:15am | • Opening remarks • Keynote talk: Erin Rose Glass |
| 11:15-11:30am | Break! |
| 11:30am-12:05pm | Fifth Session! • The surprising hacks behind my 3D reconstructed wedding cake topper! (Kathleen Tuite) • Delete all code! 100% testing coverage, the lazy way! (Matías Lang) • Tex-Mex and malloc(3C): The Problems That Restaurant Hosts and Memory Allocators Have in Common! (Jordan Hendricks) |
| 12:05-1:10pm | Lunch is served! |
| 1:10-1:35pm | Sixth Session! • Bonus extra keynote talk: Of Muppets, Metaballs, and Ballroom Dance! (Kate Compton) |
| 1:35-2:25pm | Unconferencing! |
| 2:25-3:15pm | Seventh Session! • linkRot!! Dancing the patterns of digital decay (Sarah Nguyen) • How I solved my NYC parking problem with Python! (Jessica Garson) • Packages, but in 3D! (Tiffany Tseng) • Cisco Purses Cubed! (Tom Verbeure) |
| 3:15-3:30pm | Break! |
| 3:30-4:05pm | Eighth Session • It’s alive, but not for long!! I generated thousand of 3D characters for my game only to retire most of them. (Maria Mishurenko) • Get Hooked On Neural Net Inspection! That was a pun! (Naomi Saphra) • Drag Makeovers, via AI! (Lee Butterman) |
| 4:05pm-4:20pm | • Thanks and closing remarks • End of conference (dinner, etc., on your own) |
| 4:40pm | • Shuttle departs! |