Conference program
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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) |