From alexb at tribalddb.ca Mon Mar 12 01:40:26 2007 From: alexb at tribalddb.ca (Alex Beim) Date: Mon Mar 12 01:41:37 2007 Subject: [dorkbotvan-announce] friendly reminder Message-ID: This Monday March 12th at 7:00 PM Western Front Society 303 East 8th Avenue Vancouver, British Columbia Canada V5T 1S1 The 20 minute presentation will be followed by Q&A. At the end of the night we will go to a pub close by for beers. Here is a little background about the speakers and their presentations: Mini-sumo Robots Dave Hylands Occupation: Principal Software Developer Passion: Robotics Experience and Previous Work: Have about 20 years of experience working in software development, typically at the systems level. www.davehylands.com Bob Cook Occupation: Development Manager, Web Security Appliance, Sophos Inc. Passion: Robotics Experience and Previous Work: Sixteen years in product development, about ten as a software developer. www.bobandeileen.com The Presentation: We will be discussing the game, the problems to solve, the electronics, the mechanics, the software, the results. www.vancouverroboticsclub.org Hacking the human: using AI to model creativity, living portraits and emotional new media systems. Steve DiPaola Occupation/Passion: Assoc Professor, SFU ( Interactive Arts and Tech) New Media Artist Experience and Previous work: An artist, scientist and SFU professor, DiPaola directs iVizLab which strives to make interactive systems bend more to the human experience by incorporating bio & cognitive models. He came to SFU from Stanford and NYIT CGL and has held leadership positions at Electronic Arts, Saatchi Innovation and Silicon Valley start-ups. His art has been exhibited international including the AIR and Tibor de Nagy galleries in NYC, the Whitney and Smithsonian museums. He collaborated with Nam June Paik and Kraftwerk and is known for making new media tools used equally by artists and scientists. See dipaola.org. The presentation: Can we create new expression systems by modeling living/cognitive systems with Artificial Intelligence? Steve will demonstrate his work in portraiture, the Vancouver Aquarium Whale Interactive, and experimental systems that explore expression and creativity. Low-cost Multitouch Screen Jon Nakane Occupation/Passion: Lab Manager, UBC Engineering Physics Project Lab http://www.engphys.ubc.ca/projectlab/ Experience and previews work: Several years as an instructor for Physics 253, an autonomous robot-construction class for 2nd year Engineering Physics students. http://www.engphys.ubc.ca/phys253/ The Presentation: The 26?x20? portable touchscreen prototype is based on a touch-screen system developed by Jeff Han from NYU, which has garnered interest with many research groups (http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=PLhMVNdplJc). Three undergraduate students designed and constructed the hardware and software for the system as a demonstration/teaching tool for the Engineering Physics Project Lab, various undergraduate courses, and as a mechanism for physics/ engineering outreach to the community. Photos and videos of the touchscreen can be seen at: http://my.7x24.com/multitouch/ Feel free to forward this email Cheers Alex Beim 604 7103091 Dorkbot Vancouver dorkbot.org/dorkbotvan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you're getting CCed or forwarded this email, you can subscribe to the mailing list here: http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotvan/mailinglist.shtml -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotvan-announce/attachments/20070311/c0ca7d96/attachment.html From alexbeim at gmail.com Wed Mar 21 01:24:38 2007 From: alexbeim at gmail.com (Beim Alex) Date: Wed Mar 21 01:32:51 2007 Subject: [dorkbotvan-announce] Fwd: HELP the Surrey Art Centre References: <200703210444.l2L4i6Q7024110@rm-rstar.sfu.ca> Message-ID: Begin forwarded message: > From: roppenhe@sfu.ca > Date: March 20, 2007 9:44:06 PM PDT (CA) > To: grads-siat@sfu.ca, ljdavison@city.surrey.bc.ca, > alex@agentsofplay.com > Subject: HELP the Surrey Art Centre > Reply-To: roppenhe@sfu.ca > > > Hi,all, > > Liane Davison, curator of the Surrey Art Centre, needs your help if > you know > audio and networking technology. She is putting together an amazing VJ > mashup event on March 31 with artists from India and Vancouver but > is having > network trouble. Here's what she says she needs: > > "I think we will still need help resolving network issues - networking > computers together, running Pure Data software triggered by webcam/ > blob > tracking. At this point we're even having trouble with VNC running > properly. > If people have experience with this sort of thing (maxMSP is a > commercial > version of Pure Data), it would be useful to know." > > Please contact Liane at ljdavison@city.surrey.bc.ca if can help > out. This is > a great community resource here in Surrey and I know there are > people in > SIAT who know this stuff.... > > Thanks so much, > Robin Oppenheimer -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotvan-announce/attachments/20070320/d4fd9914/attachment.html