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Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now * 4:30PM, Wed October 24, 2018 in Gates B03
From: "Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 17:16:58 +0900
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From: "Dennis Allison" <allison () stanford edu> Date: October 24, 2018 17:13:57 JST To: dave () farber net Subject: [EE CS Colloq] Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now * 4:30PM, Wed October 24, 2018 in Gates B03 Reply-To: "Dennis Allison" <allison () stanford edu> Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium 4:30 PM, Wednesday, October 24, 2018 NEC Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building Room B3 http://ee380.stanford.edu Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now and other thoughts about Internet. Jaron Lanier Microsoft About the talk: To Be Provided. About the Speaker Jaron Lanier is one of the formative figures in Virtual Reality technology. He and his friends started the first company to sell VR products in the early 1980s. They manufactured and sold the first commercial gear (such as VR headsets) and created the first implementations of multi-person vr experiences, first avatars, real time surgical simulation, VR vehicle prototyping, virtual sets for television production, and assorted other firsts. He either coined or popularized the term Virtual Reality, depending on how you think about it, as well as the term Mixed Reality He's had many other roles related to computer science, such as being the chief scientist of the engineering office of Internet2 in the 1990s. Jaron also writes books, including You Are Not a Gadget, Who Owns the Future, Dawn of the New Everything, and Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now. His writing expresses a path towards sustainable digital economics and humanism in high tech culture. He won the German Peace Prize for books as well as many other awards. He's been a concept consultant on sci fi movies like Minority Report and The Circle. He also plays a zillion musical instruments and has a huge collection of exotic ones. He's played with Philip Glass, Ornette Coleman, Yoko Ono, George Clinton, and many other interesting musicians. He collaborates with varied scientists at the edge of computation. He and his friends have spun off startups that are now parts of Google, Adobe, Oracle, and Pfizer. He's currently the "octopus" at Microsoft, which does stand for something: Office of the Chief Technology Officer Prime Unifying Scientist. ABOUT THE COLLOQUIUM: See the Colloquium website, http://ee380.stanford.edu, for scheduled speakers, FAQ, and additional information. Stanford and SCPD students can enroll in EE380 for one unit of credit. Anyone is welcome to attend; talks are webcast live and archived for on-demand viewing over the web. MAILING LIST INFORMATION: This announcement is sent to multiple mailing lists. If you are signed up on our private EE380 list you can remove yourself using the widget at the upper left hand corner of the Colloquium web page. Other lists have other management protocols.
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