Presentations
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009For people in the Ottawa-Gatineau region, tonight’s CapCHI meeting is entitled Browser Interfaces and Extended Validation SSL Certificates and is being presented by Tara Whalen who used to work at the CRC in our group.
Secure socket layer (SSL) certificates have been deployed to provide security for web-based transactions, which allow information to be transmitted securely […]
David Weinberger presentation
Monday, February 9th, 2009I’m telling you guys because I can’t go - it’s just a tad too far for me to drive there and back in a single day.
David Weinberger is giving a talk for the R.I.T.’s Lab for Social Computing’s grand re-opening, in Rochester, New York, Friday, February the 13th, at 1pm.
David Weinberger’s book Everything is Miscellaneous: […]
CapCHI meeting on Songchild.org
Monday, March 3rd, 2008CapCHI’s March meeting will be held tonight, from 7pm to 9pm, at bitHeads in the Westgate Shopping Centre on Carling Avenue.
Early Childhood Learning, Cultural Play, and Open License Children’s Music with Songchild.org, presented by Jason Nolan and Danny Bakan.
Songchild is a wiki-based collaboration between a scholar and a professional musician (Danny Bakan) that […]
CapCHI meeting on ancient architecture and design
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008There is going to be a very interesting presentation tonight by Jennifer Fraser entitled Rome, Sweet Rome: Ancient Lessons in Design (and I’m really sorry I’m going to miss this one but this cold requires that I go home):
Vitruvius, the first Roman Architect to write about architecture, asserted that any well-designed building must exhibit the […]
CapCHI: Who’s Minding the Kids? Surveillance in Three Online Playgrounds
Monday, January 14th, 2008Tonight is CapCHI’s monthly meeting and Valerie Steeves will be talking to us about internet security issues vis-à-vis children:
Children’s personal information is an increasingly hot commodity in the information marketplace, and a number of online playgrounds aggressively collect kids’ information. This presentation provides an overview of the information practices in three of […]
TED Talks: Larry Lessig
Friday, November 9th, 2007Another great TED talk, this one by Larry Lessig explaining why present copyright laws are inappropriate and suggesting how to solve the problem. Added bonus: some pretty funny remix videos and, of course, the pared-down but efficient Lessig presentation methodology. A must see.
Second Life and SlideShare
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007I was looking for information on education projects in Second Life which led me to a couple of interesting resources. Doncha just love serendipity?
For people working on education research in Second Life, Intellagirl’s (Sarah Robbins) blog looks like a good read.
And her blog led me to SlideShare, where you can upload and share slide shows. […]
