[dorkbotpgh-announce] next dorkbotpgh, Thu, 19 Mar
jet
jet at allartburns.org
Fri Mar 13 10:14:08 EDT 2009
Our March meeting will be at 7:30pm, Thursday, 19 March.
Please welcome our speakers:
Ian Ingram. Ian is a roboticist and owner of Ingram Clockworks
(<http://www.ingramclockworks.com/>), a small Lamettrian Geppettoist
company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Using tickworks and
tockworks, we make machines, creatures, remnants of creature-like
machines, artificial symbioses, observations of encounters with
creatures unknown to most of Science, and the Like.
Adrien Treuille. Adrien is a an Assistant Professor in the computer
graphics group at Carnegie Mellon University
(<http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~treuille/>). He was one of the creators of
Foldit, the computer game where users contribute to science by folding
proteins. He also pursues research in the simulation and animation of
very high-dimensional nonlinear phenomena like animal morphology, human
motion, and large fluid systems.
dorkbot pittsburgh is open to the public, non-smoking, all-ages, and
admission is free. We meet upstairs at Brillobox, 4104 Penn Ave @ Main,
vegetarian dinner and alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks are available.
Directions and such at <http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotpgh>.
--
J. Eric "jet" Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09
design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ
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