Live Stream of MSR's Social Computing Symposium

by Brady Forrest | @brady | comments: 2

Microsoft Research is holding their annual Social Computing Symposium for the next two days. During the event their will be a number of speakers and discussion groups. The goal of the event is to bring together people from industry and academia. The four areas that are being discussed this year are Location (Monday morning), Boundaries (Monday afternoon), Play (Tuesday morning), and Social Objects (Tuesday afternoon). I've embedded the Live Stream above.

Here are the speakers:

Location (Monday morning, 10:30 - 11:30 AM)

• Brady Forrest
• Tom Carden (Stamen)
• Felix Peterson (Plazes/Nokia)
• Mary Hodder (Apisphere)
• Tom Coates (Yahoo! Fire Eagle)

Boundaries/Context (Monday afternoon, 1:30 -2:30 PM)

• Liz Lawley (RIT)
• Lili Cheng (MSR)
• Molly Steenson (Princeton)
• Kevin Marks (Google)

Play (Tuesday Morning, 10:30 - 11:30 AM)

• Elan Lee (Fourth Wall Studios)
• Jesse Alexander (Heroes/NBC)
• Paolo Malabuyo (Microsoft)
• Merci Victoria Grace (GameLayers)

Social Objects (Tuesday afternoon, 1:30 -2:30 PM)

• Jyri Engestrom (Google)
• Matt Webb (Schulze & Webb)
• Kati London (Botanicalls)
• Rob Faludi (ITP)

Updated: Corrected some speakers

Ignite Boston 3

by Mike Hendrickson | @mikehatora | comments: 0

The third Ignite Boston will be on Thursday, May 29, from 6 to 10pm at Tommy Doyle's in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA. This time, we're using two floors at Tommy Doyle's, so the acoustics will be better than our first event there. From 6-6:45 pm, mingle and talk tech with your fellow FOOs, alpha geeks, and techies from the greater Boston area. After the mingling and social stuff, we'll have a couple of special keynote presentations by Jonathan Zdziarski of iPhone notoriety and John Viega of Security notoriety to kick off our Ignite talks. Then, onto guest speakers who'll catch you up on the cool, new, innovative stuff going on in technology today. Don’t blink or you’ll miss their lightning-fast, five-minute presentations. During intermissions, get a cold beer and chat with speakers, sponsors, and O’Reilly’s own editors. Join us Thursday, May 29, for a fun, energetic evening of talking, learning, collaborating and drinking!

Check out the events and activities of previous our Ignite events.

RSVP If you plan to attend, email IgniteBoston at oreilly dot com for the chance to win $300 worth of O'Reilly books of your choosing. You must be present to win. There will likely be other items like tee-shirts and other promo items for those who alert us ahead that they plan to attend.

Presentation Guidelines

Ignite is a user-generated event. If you’re interested in speaking, then submit a proposal for consideration.

Presentations must:

• Be no longer than 5 minutes
• Be on an innovative topic (no sales pitches, please!)
• Be viewable on a PC [a MacBook Pro with Powerpoint and Keynote, and PDF] with standard AV equipment
• Did we mention, no Sales Pitches.

We hope to see you there.