Media X Sun Microsystems 2009 Spring Seminar Series

April 13, 4:00 - 5:00 pm, 124 Wallenberg Hall
Bruce Damer, Contact Consortium; DigitalSpace
The EvoGrid: Building a Precursor Artificial Origin of Life Simulator"

April 20, 4:00 - 5:30 pm, 124 Wallenberg Hall
John D. Evans, John D. Evans Foundation
Doug van Houweling, University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development (Internet2)
Freedom, Science, Innovation, and Spirituality in the Digital Age

May 4, 4:00 - 5:00 pm, 124 Wallenberg Hall
Parvati Dev, Innovation in Learning, Incorporated
Learning and Work in Networked Virtual Worlds

May 4, 4:00-5:00pm, 120 Wallenberg Hall
Kristian Kiili, Tampere University of Technology, Information Technology, Finland and a Visiting Scholarat Stanford University
Game-Based Learning Demystified

May 13, 4:00-5:00pm, 124 Wallenberg Hall
Harri Oinas-Kukkonen, University of Oulu, Finland, and Visiting Scholar, H-STAR institute, Stanford University.
PSD: A Model for Persuasive Systems Design

May 18, 4:00 - 5:00 pm, 124 Wallenberg Hall
Bonnie DeVarco, Media-Tertia
Visualization Convergence for Collective, Connective and Distributed Intelligence
5:00 - 6:30 Reception for Places & Spaces Exhibit to follow, including commentary by Katy Borner - and poster session of work by students of Stanford Assistant Professor, Jeffrey Heer

POSTPONED, Date TBD
May 19, 4:00 - 5:00pm, 124 Wallenberg Hall
Shuhua Liu, Academy Research Fellow of the Academy of Finland and visiting scholar at H-Sta Instituter, Stanford University
Understanding the Global Economic Crisis: A Text Analysis and Summarization Approach

Mary 26, 4:00 - 5:00pm, 124 Wallenberg Hall
Anne Bamesberger, Sun Microsystems (panel leader), with Casey King, CTO of LifeSize Communications; Matt Collier, SVP of Corporate Development of LifeSize Communications; and Ross Mayfield, Founder/President/Chairman of Socialtext
Resetting Expectations for Distance Collaboration

Attendance is open, subject to availability.