Conner Zwick: sweating the small details for hardware innovations. Hardware Kicks Software’s Butt at SxSW Interactive 2013

College dropout whiz kid  Connor Zwick. Hardware is the new software. Presenter at the 2013 South by Southwest Interactive Conference in Austin Texas.  Hardware Kicks Software’s Butt at SxSW Interactive 2013 Conner Zwick has one word for you and the word is not plastic..it’s hardware. He dropped out of college, armed with the basic skills of… Read More Conner Zwick: sweating the small details for hardware innovations. Hardware Kicks Software’s Butt at SxSW Interactive 2013

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Texas transportation discussion with Robert Nichols and Larry Phillips

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

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It’s alive! (responsible journalism). But newspapers are history.

“Craigslist” Craig Newmark, Poynter Kelly McBride on responsible journalism, at the 2013 South by Southwest Interactive 2013 in Austin Texas “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh – or they may kill you – Oscar Wilde. (Quoted by Craig Newmark at SxSW interactive 2013) New standards of journalism in a new… Read More It’s alive! (responsible journalism). But newspapers are history.

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DIY comics artist Jody Culkin: Making and Drawing Comics in a Makers World

Jody Culkin, an artist who uses a variety of media, speaking at South by Southwest Interactive 2013 in Austin Texas. Lasersaurs, science geek comics, comic book how-to’s on lasers, creative uses of iPhone cameras, hacking, soldering, coloring books on electronics, rapid development of instructional manuals using photo-comics—Jody Culkin brought many graphic examples (pardon the art… Read More DIY comics artist Jody Culkin: Making and Drawing Comics in a Makers World

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How I learned to love supercolliders more than space travel and telescopes

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

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Brain hacking with the smartest guys in the room

whurley (William Hurley), co-founder, Chaotic Moon; Kevin Leahy, founder, Knowledge Advocate, LLC; and Russell Poldrack, PhD, director of the Imaging Research Center, UT Austin, discuss brain-altering software and human evolution at the Austin Forum in the fall of 2013. “Our brains: the organ pipes of the infinite” — William James, “The Knowing of Things Together” Three concepts; past.… Read More Brain hacking with the smartest guys in the room

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Welcome to your new job: powerful individuals, disposable companies, disrupt traditional economic predictors

James McQuivey (VP, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research):Welcome to the new disruption. “Things started to speed up at the end…” — Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Analyst, futurist, and author of Digital Disruption, James McQuivey, gave an example of how product cycles are speeding up: Apple took two years to sell the first two million… Read More Welcome to your new job: powerful individuals, disposable companies, disrupt traditional economic predictors

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One virtual singer, unlimited creators. Hatsune Miku: The open source girl who conquered the world

The Hatsune Miku demo booth at South by Southwest Interactive 2013. #sxswmiku The creators of Hatsune Miku, the virtual singer software, discussed how the vast collaborative effort that is expressed via Miku blurs the perceived boundaries between audience and star at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival 2013 in Austin, Texas. Miku is singing synthesizer… Read More One virtual singer, unlimited creators. Hatsune Miku: The open source girl who conquered the world

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The future of transportation in Texas: dystopia? We need to work a 12-step on this, Mr. Wilson

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

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Rock star: Chicxulub, the 65 million year old crater that rocked the world

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

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Deep thinking with Nathan Martin, of Recode, Deeplocal

From the Deeplocal website. I thought I’d seen complex workflow charts working with engineering graduate students, but this kludge takes the prize. DEEPLOCAL Nathan Martin, owner of Deeplocal. Recode Recode.com was based on Priceline and was a punk trick. Copy subbar codes; change the bar code, and you can get your item at the price… Read More Deep thinking with Nathan Martin, of Recode, Deeplocal

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