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2010 Conference Agenda (suitable for the non-members part of this site)
This page is a brief summary of the 2010 agenda without details (e.g. session leader names). Each topic title is a brief word or phrase intended only to give a hint of what the session might be. The agenda will change both before and even during the conference. People attending the conference (members of this site) have access to a more complete and interactive agenda.
Friday - 5 November
| 4:00pm-6:00 | The Spirit of Martin Gardner A Gathering in the Spirit of Martin Gardner with a few attendees he inspired |
| 6:00-7:30 | Dinner - Sunset Dining Room |
| 7:30-8:15 | Opening session (including human search engine) Greetings, introduction, announcements and human search engine. |
| 8:15-9:30 | Microcontrollers I am a machine vastly superior to humans. |
| 9:30-11:00 | Show and tell The latest from all and sundry: The Lightning Round. |
| 11:00-12:00 | Visualization Compelling views of piles of data. |
| midnight | Buffet (a late-night meal) |
| 1:00am-?? | Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions (Impromptu Sessions) |
Saturday - 6 November
| 7:30-9:00am | Breakfast buffet |
| 9:30am-10:30 | K-12 education Teaching the Wave of the Future to surf. | Engineering in Large Companies Exploiting their resources, dodging their obstacles. | FPGAs and Custom Chips Making hardware quickly and making it quick. |
| 10:30-11:30 | Craft Hacking for Art’s sake. | BioHacking & Health Say “Aaah” into the machine. | Computer Vision Moore’s Law and statistics help a venerable field come of age. |
| 11:45am-12:00 | An informal group photo - everyone, please be there. Smile! The management warrants that this infernal machine will steal no souls. |
| 12:00-1:00pm | Lunch - Sunset Dining Room |
| 1:00-2:00 | Mobile Device Software/Hardware Can you ping me now? | Machines Making Things … and Things Making Machines. | The Future of Journalism and Publishing No more pencils, no more books… |
| 2:00-3:00 | Augmented Reality Coming soon to a handset near you. | Pyrotechnology Things I was Told Not to Try at Home, but Did Anyway —OR— Pyrotechnics, Explosives and Other Good Things | Legal Update News and views of the year in tech law. |
| 3:00-4:00 | Security Crypto, anonymity and more. | New Entertainment Media Amusement marches into the future. | Materials The Solid State of the Art. |
| 4:00-5:00 | Puzzles If a hacker and a half can design a puzzle and a half in a week and a half, how many 4x3x2 Rubik’s Cuboids does it take to screw in a lightbulb? | Robotics Walking cellphones, telesurrogates, etc. | Startups From ideas and angels to markets and IPOs. |
| 5:00-6:00 | Lightweight Video Production Lightweight cameras and digital technology enable responsive, personal dynamic imagery. | Future Programming Paradigms Redefining and reifying the paradigm of the parable of the model of the metaphor. | Software Defined & Secure Radio DSP, spread spectrum, jamproofing and you. |
| 6:00-7:30 | Dinner - Sunset Dining Room |
| 7:30-8:15 | Re-Opening Session More announcements and inverse human search engine. |
| 8:15-9:15 | Fireside Chat Adventures in industry, academia, and athletics |
| 9:15-10:15 | Geographic Data Analysis Where are we, and how do we know? |
| 10:15-11:15 | Show and tell part 2 A second chance for those that missed Friday’s Show and Tell. |
| 11:15-12:00 | Alternative Photography It’s not your grandfather’s camera. |
| midnight | Buffet (a late-night meal) |
| 1:00am-?? | Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions (Impromptu Sessions) including A jam session following the main session I can Name That Tune in zero notes…and play it! Bring your instruments; we’ll play all night. |
Sunday - 7 November
| 7:30am-9:00 | A light continental breakfast buffet |
| 9:30am-11:00 | Apple The 2 Steves, not the Fab 4; prehistory of the Mac; crazy projects | Energy Projects and prospects, with a panel discussion. | Space Final Frontiersmen look at the landscape…from above. |
| 11:00-11:15 | Reminder: Room checkout is 11:00am. |
| 11:15-12:30 | Brunch — a buffet including breakfast and lunch dishes |
| 12:30pm-1:00 | Contest Prizes, special giveaways, final announcements, awards, etc. |
| 1:00-2:30 | Privacy Maybe we won’t “get over it.” |
For those registered for Sunday evening, enjoy the area but be back for dinner.
| 6:30-8:00 | Dinner and Special Sunday Evening Session |
| 8:00-10:30 | Expanding, Engaging and Empowering Hackers The future of our (sub)species. |
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