[act-ma] Energy (and Other) Events
George Mokray
gmoke at world.std.com
Sun Jun 13 19:39:41 PDT 2010
MIT
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
2010 Knight News Challenge: Winners Announcement Ceremony
Speaker: Alberto Ibarguen, Knight Foundation
Time: 2:30p–4:00p
Location: 10-250
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, hosted by the MIT Center
for Future Civic Media, will announce the 2010 Knight News Challenge
winners. The winners represent the cutting-edge of technology for
news, shaping the future of communities and media.
The announcement will feature "lightning sessions" from the 2010
winners.
Learn more about the Knight News Challenge at http://newschallenge.org.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies, MIT Center for Future Civic Media
For more information, contact:
Andrew Whitacre
617.324.0490
awhit at mit.edu
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Thursday, June 17, 2010
EurekaFest 2010 - Presentations by 2010 Lemelson-MIT Collegiate
Student Prize Winners and InvenTeams
Time: 1:00p–3:30p
Location: 32-123
Attend presentations and demonstrations by the winners of the $30,000
Lemelson-MIT Collegiate Student Prizes at MIT, Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the
California Institute of Technology, as well as several high school
InvenTeams.
Web site: http://www.eurekafest.org
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Tickets: N/A
Sponsor(s): Lemelson-MIT Program
For more information, contact:
Michael Perry
617.45.2170
mperry at mit.edu
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Thursday, June 17, 2010
EurekaFest 2010 - Introduction of the Inventing merit badge
Time: 3:30p–4:00p
Location: 32-123
Attend a presentation by the Lemelson-MIT Program and the Boy Scouts
of America introducing the Inventing merit badge
Web site: http://www.eurekafest.org
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Lemelson-MIT Program
For more information, contact:
Michael Perry
617.452.2170
mperry at mit.edu
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Thursday, June 17, 2010
EurekaFest 2010 - InvenTeams Showcase
Time: 6:00p–8:45p
Location: 32, Stata Student Street, Stata Center, 1st Floor
The 2010 InvenTeams, teams of high school students nationwide, will
exhibit their invention prototypes.
Web site: http://www.eurekafest.org
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Lemelson-MIT Program
For more information, contact:
Michael Perry
617.452.2170
mperry at mit.edu
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Thursday, June 17, 2010
EurekaFest 2010 - Presentation by the 2010 $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award
for Sustainability Winner
Time: 7:30p–8:15p
Location: 32-123, Kirsch Auditorium
2010 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability winner, BP Agrawal, will
discuss his innovations including a rainwater harvesting system,
mobile health clinics and cultural implementations
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Lemelson-MIT Program
For more information, contact:
Michael Perry
617.452.2170
mperry at mit.edu
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Friday, June 18, 2010
EurekaFest 2010 - InvenTeams Showcase
Time: 5:30p–8:30p
Location: 32, Stata Student Street
The 2010 InvenTeams, teams of high school students nationwide, will
exhibit their invention prototypes.
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Lemelson-MIT Program
For more information, contact:
Michael Perry
617.452.2170
mperry at mit.edu
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Friday, June 18, 2010
EurekaFest 2010 - Lemelson-MIT Awards Ceremony
Time: 6:30p–8:00p
Location: 32-123, Kirsch Auditorium
This public ceremony will honor the work of inventors improving our
world. The 2010 Lemelson-MIT Award winners will be recognized,
including a special presentation by the 2010 $500,000 Lemelson-MIT
Prize Winner.
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Lemelson-MIT Program
For more information, contact:
Michael Perry
617.452.2170
mperry at mit.edu
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Friday, June 18, 2010
Reporting a black hole : A journalist's experiences from Chhattisgarh
in Central Tribal India
Speaker: Shubhranshu Choudhary
Time: 7:00p–9:00p
Location: 2-105
A talk by Shubhranshu Choudhary, founder CGnet (a community news
platform dealing with Chhattisgarh issues).
The talk will be preceded by a short screening of a documentary film
titled ?India's Hidden War,? made in 2007 by a team of which
Shubhranshu was a part and screened in a program called Unreported
World on Channel 4 in the UK.
Web site: http://aidboston.org
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): AID-MIT
For more information, contact:
Ramya Aja
aid-mit-exec at mit.edu
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Saturday, June 19, 2010
EurekaFest 2010 at the Museum of Science, Boston
Time: 10:00a–5:00p
Location: Museum of Science, Boston
Cheer on over 200 high school students in an all-day design challenge
that explores the invention process. Come meet Marvel Comics artist
Nick Dragotta, and professional toy designer Ingrid Dragotta, as they
teach the creative process of making your own inventions. Families are
encouraged to attend!
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Lemelson-MIT Program
For more information, contact:
Michael Perry
617.452.2170
mperry at mit.edu
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Harvard
Don't Hate the Player, Hate the Game: Internet Games, Social
Inequality, and Racist Talk as GriefingLisa Nakamura, University of
Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Tuesday, June 15, 12:30 pm
Berkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floor
RSVP required for those attending in person (rsvp at cyber.law.harvard.edu)
This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our
site shortly after (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast).
Games are a radically transnational medium: as Martin Lister writes in
New Media: An Introduction, “even before Pokémon, the videogame was
perhaps the most thoroughly transnational form of popular culture,
both as an industry (with Sony, Sega ad Nintendo as the key players)
but also at the level of content—the characters and narratives of many
videogames are evidence of relays of influence between America and
Japan.” Internet gameplay is becoming more socially and culturally
diverse and ubiquitous than ever before. Yet at the same time, the
culture of griefing or pranking that dominates these games and other
forms of networked social life such as Second Life and Chatroulette
takes increasingly racist and racialized forms. The Patriotic Niggas,
a group of griefers who delight in "breaking" Second Life and Habbo
Hotel by filling public space with garbage, are assuredly not African
American, but resort to offensive racist languages as the shortest
route to their goal: the disruption of online community and social
life. This essay will recap the history of racist griefing online and
link the current crisis in racial discourse in the US with this
practice, exploring the implications for digital games as a public
sphere.
About Lisa
Lisa Nakamura is the Director of the Asian American Studies Program,
Professor in the Institute of Communication Research and Media Studies
Program, and Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of
Illinois, Urbana Champaign.
She is the author of "Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the
Internet" (University of Minnesota Press, 2008), "Cybertypes: Race,
Ethnicity and Identity on the Internet" (Routledge, 2002) and co-
editor of "Race in Cyberspace" (Routledge, 2000).
She has published articles in Critical Studies in Media Communication,
PMLA, Cinema Journal, The Womens Review of Books, Camera Obscura, and
the Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies. She is editing a collection with
Peter Chow-White entitled "Digital Race: An Anthology" (Routledge,
forthcoming), and she is working on a new monograph on social
inequality in virtual worlds, tentatively entitled "Workers Without
Bodies: Towards a Theory of Race and Digital Labor in Virtual Worlds,
or, Why World of Warcraft needs a Civil Rights Movement."
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Building Bodies and Brains for Autonomous Robots
WHEN
Thu., June 17, 2010, 3 – 4 p.m.
WHERE
Room 521, Wyss Institute
3 Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA 02115
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Wyss Institute at Harvard University
SPEAKER(S)
Daniela Rus, visiting scholar Wyss Institute; professor, Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department, MIT; co-director,
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL),
Center for Robotics
NOTE
In this talk, Daniela Rus will discuss the challenges of building
brains and bodies to create mobile autonomous systems that can
interact in new ways with the physical world, on the ground, in water,
and in the air. She will focus on recent progress in Self-Organizing
Robots, which constitute distributed networks of robots that can
sense, actuate, compute and communicate in support of adaptive self-
organization. The nodes in such networks can include static sensors,
mobile sensors, robots, animals, and humans. Such systems combine the
most advanced concepts in perception, communication, and control to
create computational systems capable of large-scale interaction with
the environment, extending the individual capabilities of each network
component to encompass a much wider area, range of data, and control
capabilities.
LINK
http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewevent/66/wyss-visiting-scholar-daniela-rus
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Other
Monday night, June 14th
7pm
The first Greater Boston Slow Money MeetUp
The Nonprofit Center
89 South Street
Boston, MA 02111
617-439-3142
Please sign up at http://www.meetup.com/Greater-Boston-Slow-Money/
The first half of the evening will focus on the Slow Money movement
and principles and the second half will be a Slow Money showcase.
Presenters will include David Warner from City Feed and Supply, Jessie
Benhazl from Green City Growers, Dorothy Suput of The Carrot Project,
Julia Frost of CHIVE Sustainable Event Design & Catering, and Glynn
Lloyd from City Fresh Foods - City Growers.
We suggest a donation of $10 at the door, or better yet become a
member of the Slow Money Alliance for just $25 and admission is free.
The Greater Boston Slow Money MeetUp aims to provide a collaborative
forum for Boston's locavore, social investing, and local economy
communities to channel capital toward building a sustainable,
equitable food system.
The idea is to create a critical mass of people and organizations
committed to channeling capital to sustainable ag related enterprises
in our area. Our MeetUps will offer entrepreneurs the opportunity to
present their business plans and for attendees to consider making
investments. We envision an environment where all participants learn
something from the process.
Hope to see you there!
Eric Becker
eric at cleanyield.com
(617) 395-9966
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GreenPort Forum
Where Does Our Water Come From?
Tuesday, June 15 at 7:00pm
Central Square Library, 45 Pearl St.
Recent problems in the water supply to Boston have highlighted the
need for urban residents to understand where our basic resources, such
as the water we drink, come from. How sustainable is the Cambridge
water supply? How might it be affected by climate change? What can we
do to conserve and help assure the long term availability of fresh
water in Cambridge?
Sam Corda, Managing Director of the Cambridge Water Department, will
present on these issues and more, followed by a roundtable discussion.
For more information, contact Steve Wineman at swineman at gis.net
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Bikes Not Bombs
GREEN ROOTS FESTIVAL!
June 20th, 2010. Noon to 5:30
in the park in front of the Stony Brook T station, Boylston Street,
Jamaica Plain, 02130
Links to events at over 30 colleges and universities at Hubevents (http://hubevents.blogspot.com
)
Thanks to Fred Hapgood's Selected Lectures on Science and Engineering
in the Boston Area (http://fhapgood.fastmail.fm/site02.html)
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