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!!Con 2020

May 9-10, 2020

The joy, excitement, and surprise of computing

Conference program

Jump directly to the Saturday or Sunday program!

This is a remote conference, so we’ve adjusted the schedule to try to be timezone friendly. All times are in US East Timezone.


Saturday, May 9

Time Event
10:30am Stream Begins
10:45am Opening remarks
• Keynote talk: Taeyoon Choi
11:45am Break!
12:00pm Session the First:
The Taming of the Clue: Teaching a Pen Plotter To Solve Crossword Puzzles!! (Chloe Revery)
Little Printing for everyone!!1 (Tamás Kádár)
Printing floating point numbers is surprisingly hard!! (Gargi Sharma)
12:45pm Break!
1:00pm Session the Second:
bringing back my 1998 by building an arduino that can recover a playstation memory card! (Martin Gaston)
Trapped in codepoints no more! I’m freeing Chinese characters. (Gábor Ugray)
Reverse engineer your ski goggles for fun and profit! (Jonathan Kingsley)
1:45pm Break!
2:30pm Session the Third:
Playing Breakout… inside a PDF!! (Omar Rizwan)
Obelisk and the Known Unknowns (Or: The Art of Fumbling Through your Side Project to Create Something Incredible!) * (Sacha Sayan)
• *Punch Card Love! A (Very!) Personal History of Computer Dating!
(Amy Cash)
3:15pm Unconferencing!
4:00pm Session the Fourth:
Let’s implement DNS to learn history! (Dylan Nugent)
Recreating Photography of the 1850s in a Digital World: Cowboys, Principal Component Analysis, and One Vengeful Volcano Spirit!!! (Phil Warren)
4:30pm Break!
4:45pm Session the Fifth:
EMAIL! (Char Stiles)
Supercharged Dijkstra’s: Computing ‘shortest’ paths on large road graphs in microseconds! (Payas Rajan)
Quebec’s 735kv power lines can survive the apocalypse, but can they run TCP?! (Nick Sweeting)

Sunday, May 10

Time Event
10:30am Stream Begins
10:45am Opening remarks
• Keynote talk: Allison Parrish
11:45am Break!
12:00pm Session the First:
Learning your 爱比西s: Translating Chinese into Morse code! (Franklin Hu)
The Making of a Mosquito.JS (Tim Holman)
Using font shaping to put commas in big numbers EVERYWHERE!! (Tristan Hume)
12:45pm Break!
1:00pm Session the Second:
Sparking Musical Joy at Home With Magnetic Stripe Swipe Cards and Tiny Code! (Helen Hou-Sandí)
Bang Bang!! My Interpreter Shot Me Down! (Julia Tufts)
Repair a Commodore 64 in just 64 Months!! (Matt Clawson)
1:45pm Break!
2:30pm Session the Third:
89 characters of base-11?! Mobile networking in rural Ethiopia! (Ben Kuhn)
CBS Televised Computer-Generated Stories in 1960—and Ten Million Watched! (James Ryan)
Programming from an alternate timeline! (Matthew Dockrey)
3:15pm Unconferencing!
4:00pm Session the Fourth:
Writing {{‘poems that change’, ‘chance poems’, ‘dynamic poetry’}}! (Andrew Yoon)
We used a MIDI CONTROLLER to tune our GAMEFEEL! (Em Lazer-Walker)
Screwing up is easier than ever before! (Joshua Wise)