Smart Cities Challenge Panel at SxSWi 2016 Seven Mayors and the U.S. DOT Secretary Fox #SXSW2016 #SXSWi2016 Austin chosen for the Smart City Challenge. The US DOT has chosen Austin for some transportation connection upgrades. At the Expo: DOT Connected Vehicles demo at SxSW Expo
Parking right up front at Texas Tribune Festival (at AT&T Conference Center at UT Austin). Is the Texas fracking boom over? Chaos is “behind us”, says panelist Fracking: South Texas will never be the same as it was The Tribune Festival The event has spread across the campus, so my first stop was Welsh Hall, where… Read More Texas Tribune Festival 2015
Can the Center Hold? To be (in the center) or not to be? Thus is the question today discussed with Evan Smith (Tribfest) with those listed above. Quotable quotes: The system is dominated by money. We don’t have any idea where we are headed. Republicans are talking nonsensical garbage. Hutchinson – redistributing and gerrymandering. The primary… Read More Left of center: is there a Texas political “center” and how’s it doing?
The Austin Club110 E. Ninth St.Austin, TX 78701 Thursday, April 4, 20137:30 – 9 a.m.With the way Texas pays for its roads under the spotlight this session, join state Sen. Robert Nichols and state Rep. Larry Phillips for a conversation about transportation with Tribune reporter Aman Batheja. This event was sponsored by CH2M Hill, and… Read More Texas transportation discussion with Robert Nichols and Larry Phillips
Meme of “We’ve GOT to get OFF this PLANET” by Captain Kirk. Bit of Bowies “The Next Day” song “Dancing Out In Space.”Lyrics:Cutting through the water, hand upon the ghostto the city of solid iron to the kingdom of the mostsend your friend away now, let him sail back home tonightsomething like dandingsomething like a… Read More Getting off: Spacemen with stars in their eyes
Images from last year’s Center for Transportation Research Center’s Annual Symposium.
UT Physics professor Dr. Steven Weinberg at the 2013 South by Southwest Interactive Conference “We need to fund supercolliders – and that is why I am here (at SXSWi),” said Nobel Prize-winning physicist Dr. Steven Weinberg. And the South by Southwest Interactive audience applauded with enthusiasm. As much as SxSWi participants love the pursuit of space… Read More How I learned to love supercolliders more than space travel and telescopes
Dr. Kevin Nowka at the AT&T Center at the Austin Forum. Dr. Kevin Nowka is cute. He’s a little nervous to leave his laptop in the AT&T conference room just to go out for a photo shoot. But when he stands in front of those pretty red flowers and start smiling into the sun for… Read More IBM researcher Kevin Nowka talks about the big, big data
Panel discussion with Drew Darby, Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa, Robert Nichols, Joe Pickett, Tommy Williams, moderated by Erica Greider. @ the 2013 annual Texas Tribune Festival on the UT Austin campus. There’s nothing Texans enjoy more than a good fight, and there is nothing quite as much fun as watching Texans rassle over how to apportion money… Read More Texas, Fight!!! (over road funding)
Panel Discussion: Deirdre Delisi, Michael Morris, Larry Phillips, Nicolas Rubio, Phil Wilson, with Aman Batheja (mod.) Texas Tribune Festival has once again brought TxDOT Director Phil Wilson, along with other heavy hitters in Texas transportation to the UT Austin campus to discuss the future of Texas roads. What does our future hold? I am as curious as the next traveler to… Read More The future of transportation in Texas: dystopia? We need to work a 12-step on this, Mr. Wilson
Chicxulub rocked the world Austin Forum hosted Dr. Sean Gulick who has been studying the region of the Chicxulub crater, which was created when a gigantic meteor rocketed down from the sky and plummeted into the ocean near the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico 65.5 million years ago. After contemplating the damage done by this massive space rock, you don’t… Read More Rock star: Chicxulub, the 65 million year old crater that rocked the world
There was a point in time when I understood this. Now it remains as a mysterious poem. Poem Note Crypton CEO Hiroyuki Itoh (l) visited with technology artist Kaoru Sugano (r) and a member of Itoh’s Crypton Future Media team (middle) representing Hatsune Miku at South by Southwest 2013. Somewhere, there is a picture but you… Read More Hacking and tracking fingers, automobiles, with Daito Manabe and Kaoru Sugano
Newosity: future report 