Conference program
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Saturday, May 6
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 9:15 | Space opens; registration; refreshments; mingling |
| 10:20-11:15 | • Opening remarks • Keynote talk: Cyborgs Unite! (Karen Sandler) |
| 11:15-11:30 | Break! |
| 11:30-12:15 | Session the First: • Serious programming with jq?! A practical and purely functional programming language! (Charles Chamberlain) • Finding Friends in High Dimensions: Locality-Sensitive Hashing For Fun and Friendliness! (Aaron Levin) • What alien invaders, birds, and computer simulations have in common: flocking!! (Jan Mitsuko Cash) • I wrote to a dead address in a deleted PDF and now I know where all the airplanes are!! (Jason McIntosh) |
| 12:15-1:30 | Break for lunch! |
| 1:30-2:15 | Session the Second: • Requiem for a nemesis! (Nick Sullivan) • Glk! A universal user interface! for interactive fiction! (Andrew Plotkin) • How do Keyboards Work? HIDing, in Plain Sight!! (Scott Vokes) • Making Mushrooms Glow! (Bomani McClendon) |
| 2:15-2:30 | Break! |
| 2:30-3:15 | Session the Third: • Why So Loud! Geeking Out on Airline Data, Physics and Mapping (Ewan Dennis) • Writing NES games! with assembly!! (Christian Joudrey) • The TOP 5 Queer Feminist Cyberpunk Manifestos! (Jean Cochrane) • Corruption in the Data Center! TCP can fail to keep your data safe! (Evan Jones) |
| 3:15-4:15 | Unconferencing! |
| 4:15-4:50 | Session the Fourth: • What the heck time is it?!? (Joel Potischman) • HDR photography in Microsoft Excel?! (Kevin Chen) • I got the computer to find words with good anagrams and throw away the boring ones!! (Mark Dominus) |
| 4:50-5:00 | Closing remarks |
| 5:00 | Wrap for the day (dinner, etc., on your own) |
Sunday, May 7
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 9:15 | Space opens; registration (for anyone who didn’t already); refreshments; mingling |
| 10:30-11:15 | • Opening remarks • Keynote talk: We Are What We Celebrate: The Joy, Excitement, and Surprise of Who is Making Things (Limor Fried) |
| 11:15-11:30 | Break! |
| 11:30-12:15 | Session the Fifth: • Synthesizing video and turning it into music! (Jes Wolfe!) • PUSH THE BUTTON! 🔴 Designing a fun game where the only input is a BIG RED BUTTON! 🔴 !!! (Mahtab Sabet) • Simulated Gravity Comes from Within!!! (Paul Frazee) • BEEP!! See AppleSoft BASIC and 6502 assembly language written on an actual Apple IIc from the 80s! Fresh on startup with no software installed! (Richard Harrington) |
| 12:15-1:30 | Break for lunch! |
| 1:30-2:15 | Session the Sixth: • Om! Nom! Nash! (David Turner) • It’s super effective! Solving Pokemon Blue with a single, huge regular expression! (Alex Clemmer) (Note: unfortunately, this talk had to be cancelled due to the speaker being unable to attend) • The emoji that killed Chrome!! (Julian Squires) • Islamic Geometry: Hankin’s Polygons in Contact Algorithm!!! (Yomna Nasser) |
| 2:15-2:30 | Break! |
| 2:30-3:15 | Session the Seventh: • How Merkle trees enable the decentralized Web! (Tara Vancil) • Where Are All the Space Robots?! (Lisa Ballard) • Interpolation Search Can Be Fast, in Some Situations, Sometimes, If You Try! (Ruchir Khaitan) • No battery, no (watch) life!! (Michael Kwan) |
| 3:15-4:15 | Unconferencing! |
| 4:15-4:50 | Session the Eighth: • ENHANCE! Upscaling images with neural networks (Geoffrey Litt) • A punch card ate my program! (Walt Mankowski) • DHCP: IT’S MOSTLY YELLING!! (Mindy Preston) |
| 4:50 | Thanks and closing remarks |