Presentations: Keynote
Steve Cousins (Willow Garage)
In this talk we introduce an open source platform for personal robots that integrates the best technologies from various areas of robotics and work from top research institutions, within a flexible and lightweight modular architecture.
Alex Steffen (Worldchanging)
If everyone lived like a typical prosperous American, we'd need ten planets to sustain our way of life. What might a sustainable future look like? How do we use ingenuity to design a future that's both bright and green?
Lawrence Lessig (Creative Commons)
More info will be provided soon. Lessig has discussed corruption on his blog (lessig.org/blog).
Micah Sifry (Personal Democracy Forum)
Four years ago, at ETech 2004, O'Reilly hosted a seminal one-day
Digital Democracy Teach-In, focused on how internet technologies were
"putting power back into the hands of the people." In 2008, the internet has become a central battlefield for the presidential campaigns, but how much are they actually using the net to empower their supporters?
John McCarthy (Stanford University)
Presentation:
Elephant 2000_ A Programming Language for the year 2015 Based on Speech Acts Presentation
[PDF]
Elephant 2000 is a proposed programming language good for writing
and verifying programs that interact with people (e.g. transaction
processing) or interact with programs belonging to other
organizations (e.g. electronic data interchange)
Saul Griffith (Makani Power/Squid Labs)
The world has known, calculable amounts of energy are available. We'll take a science look at all of the earth's energy resources, both stored and renewable.
Kathy Sierra (Creating Passionate Users)
What does it take to be really, really, really good at something? Are our tech tools making us smarter, dumbing us down, or...? The good news: having a "natural talent" for something is a lot less crucial for expertise than we thought.
Eric Rodenbeck (Stamen Design)
Information visualization is emerging as a medium with a wide range of expressive potential. Stamen Design’s work in visualization and mapping is among the most high profile online. Eric Rodenbeck will provide an overview and insight into the studio’s working process.
Peter Semmelhack (Bug Labs)
Presentation:
Personalizing the Device_ How Communities Will Help Actualize User-generated Hardware and the Long-tail of Gadgets Presentation
[PDF]
Open innovation and advances in collaborative development will help usher in the era of user-generated hardware. This talk will focus on user-driven personalization and specialization as it relates to personal hardware devices.
Elizabeth Churchill (Yahoo! Research)
This keynote describes public community displays in social settings
that are connected to online social networking sites, allowing
socializers to push content between physical and digital spheres.
Chris Melissinos (Sun Microsystems, Inc.)
The video games represent one of the largest entertainment industries in the world, and online games is its fastest growing segment. With this extraordinary growth comes the issue of building truly scalable, "massive multiplayer" solutions that are beyond what the industry deploys today.
Tom Coates (Yahoo! Brickhouse)
What would the world be like if everything on the network responded to your location? Social sites could become friend-finders, mobile devices could tell you about your environment, your home could respond to your proximity or absence. Fire Eagle is a new open geo platform designed to make this a reality.
Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
Tim shares his views on the technology's latest trends.
Lew Tucker (Sun Microsystems, Inc.)
We'll discuss and demo an innovative new service: Twine.com, built on a semantic web platform and designed to grow and enrich communities of interest. Semantics are used throughout as the system automatically annotates information with meta data, tags, and relationships.
Jury Hahn (MegaPhone),
Dan Albritton (MegaPhone)
Presentation:
Your Phone is Your Controller_ Collaborative Gaming in Public Spaces Presentation
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MegaPhone makes digital signage interactive using a regular phone call. Learn about this phone-controlled, real-time, multiplayer collaborative gaming platform that can be used from ANY phone, ANY service provider, in ANY country as a game controller.
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