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202017 events

  • December 15
    The Future of Gaming Technologies and Applications

    Sheri Graner Ray, Dimensional Ink; Erika Summa, Dell Technologies

  • December 1
    How Technology Companies & Techies Can Create Even More Social Good

    Jessica Sager, Austin Forum; Dr. Steve Kramer, KUNGFU.AI; Justin Murrill, AMD; Ryan-Alexander Thomas, Umanity; Nehemiah Pitts III, Community Technology and Telecommunications Commissioner City of Austin

  • November 10
    Quantum Computing: The Next Computing Revolution

    whurley, Strangeworks

  • October 20
    AI & The Future of Work

    Sherri Greenberg, The University of Texas; Chris Shenefiel, Cisco

  • October 6
    Edge Computing and Data Analytics for Smart Communities and Cities

    Chelsea Collier, Digi.City; Rob Silverberg, Dell Technologies

  • September 8
    From Tech Idea to Technology Impact: Creating Successful Tech Companies That Matter

    Gordon Daugherty, Harold Ingersol, Kirk Cesari, Ashley Stroud Phillips, Joshua Baer, Jill Murphy

  • August 25
    Achieving Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Tech

    Matt Stephenson, Elizabeth Quintanilla, Leo Ramirez, Michael Ward Jr.

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    Using Data & Technology to Address Our Racial Climate

    Aug 4 Meme Styles, Janice Omadeke, Eunice Chendjou, Michael Ward Jr.

  • July 21
    AI & How It Will Impact Humanity and Society

    Matt Sanchez, Dave DeCaprio, Jean-Leah Njoroge Ph.D.

  • July 7
    AI & Why It Will Transform Everything

    With Charlie Burgoyne, Jay Boisseau, and Kimberly Storin

  • June 2
    Videogames: The Future of Entertainment, Sports, and Socializing

    Patrick Curry

  • May 5
    Technologies for Fighting COVID-19 and Other Epidemics

    John Fonner, Eric Olson, and Sherri Greenberg

  • April 21
    Tech for Maintaining Healthy Living, Bodies & Minds at Home

    Dr. Garrick Baskerville, Dr. Joanne Sotelo, and Sara Ness

  • April 7
    Technologies For Effective Remote Working, Learning, & Living (COVID-19)

    Jay Williams, Amber Gunst, Jim Ganthier, and more

  • March 5
    Technology + Art: Data, Algorithms, and Software Enable New Artistic Creativity

    Julia Morton, Shirley Steele, James Pricer, and Tyler Hobbs

  • February 4
    Health Tech: How Technology, and Austin, Will Help You Live Longer & Better

    Dr. Jordan Amadio and Scott Collins, PhD

  • January 7
    Tech Trends 2020 (And Beyond)

    Jay Williams and Jay Boisseau

201912 events

  • December 3
    Technology for Social Good: How Tech Professionals & Companies Can Support Social Impact

    Chelsea Collier, Jessica Sager, Samantha Snabes, Steve Wanta, Meme Styles, Allison Hannel

  • November 12
    The Internet of Things: How Connected Devices Everywhere Will Change Everything

    Rhonda Dirvin and Jason Shepherd

  • October 17
    The Evolution of Energy: Enabling a Clean, Sustainable Future

    Karl Popham and Dan Bradley

  • September 17
    Data, Privacy, Freedom, and Ethics Debate

    Sherri Greenberg, Becky Taylor, Brett Hurt, and Byron Reese

  • August 6
    Technology, Space, and Humanity

    Tom Markusic and Rick Tumlinson

  • July 9
    Robotics: Transformational Tools for Industry, Mobility, and More

    Dr. Mitchel Pryor and Jared Carl

  • June 11
    AI: The Power, Promise, and Pragmatic Potential

    Ganesh Padmanabhan, Randi Ludwig, Shay Sabhiki, and Usman Shuja

  • May 14
    5G: Ushering in the Fourth Technology Revolution

    Fawzi Behmann, Amber Gunst, and Arun Ghosh

  • April 9
    Tech Idea to Tech Startup

    Gordon Daughtery, Kirk Cesari, Harold Ingersoll, Mitch Jacobson, Jill Murphy, and Nicolia Wiles

  • March 5
    Engaging Millions with Technologies for Immersive Experiences

    Amber Allen

  • February 12
    Technology to Sustainably Grow More & Better Food

    Robyn Metcalfe

  • January 8
    Top Tech Trends for 2019 (And Beyond)

    Jay Boisseau and Jay Williams

201812 events

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    Cities & Technology: Living with IoT, 5G, AI, Drones & More

    Jay Boisseau & Chelsea Collier

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    How Technology Will Transform Mobility & Transportation

    Karla Taylor, Kathleen Baireuther, Barry Einsig, Gregg Hansen, Jason JonMichael, Alex Sabatier

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    Power, Providing More Power for More People

    Karl Popham

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    Cyber Security, Surviving and Thriving in a Connected World

    Earl Carter

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    The Promise and Peril of Gene Editing

    Dr. Ilya Finkelstein & Dr. Sahotra Sarkar

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    Blockchain: Bringing the Transformation Home

    Karen Kilroy & Jeremy Drzal

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    The Internet of Things (IoT): Realizing the Potential of Billions of Connected Devices

    Rhonda Dirvin and special guests Xiaoping Chen, Guarav Chawla, Chris Blanding & Ted Lehr

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    Social Media: How Is It Influencing Society and How Should It Influence It?

    Sherri Greenberg, Amy Atchley, Robert Chesney, Rod Favaron & Amanda Zamora

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    Drones: Changing Business, Agriculture, Security and More

    Craig Nehrkorn & Brandon Eickhoff

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    Artificial Intelligence: How Machine Learning Will Transform (Almost) Everything

    Jay Boisseau & Jeff Kirk

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    Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality: Coming to Your Eyes in 2018

    Patrick Curry & Frank Roan

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    Top Tech Trends for 2018 (and Beyond)

    Jay Boisseau & Jay Williams

201713 events

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    Austin Forum's Annual Tech for Giving and Sharing

    Barbary Brunner, Chelsea Collier, John Nehme, Leo Ramirez, Jr., Zoe Schlag, & Monica Maldonado Williams

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    Putting Our Creative Class to Work Through Technology

    Kalinda Howe, Patrick McGarry, Paul O'Brien & Jim Spencer

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    The Future of Electric Power for a Smart City

    Karl Popham

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    How Can Tech Help Save Austin's Live Music Industry?

    Chad Swiatecki With Panelists Dave Blue, Charlie Faye, Bianca Flores, Clark Nowlin, Stephen Sternschein, & Bak Zoumanigui

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    Technologies That Are Transforming Manufacturing, and How This Impacts You

    Scott Fish, David Leigh & Matt M. Robison

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    Blockchain: Transforming Business, Socieity, and Humanity

    Ashish Gadnis, Richard Hurley, Christa Clark & Jeremy Drzal

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    The Internet of Things (IoT): What is it, and How Will it Change Our Lives?

    Rhonda Dirvin

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    The Acceleration of Austin as a Smart City

    Jay Boisseau, Chelsea Collier, Jen Duthie, Stephen Elkins, Ben Guhin

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    The Growing Threats of Cybersecurity: What You Should Know

    Alan Daines

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    Dell Medical School Update: The Role of Technology in Transforming Healthcare

    Dr. Mini Kahlon

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    Artificial Intelligence: How Deep Learning is Advancing & Transforming Business, Transportation, Medicine & More

    Marc Hamilton

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    From Idea to Innovation: How to Start a Tech Company That Matters

    Gordon Daugherty, Christopher Calicott, Kirk Cesari, Harold Ingersoll, Jill Murphy, Jake Phillips & Chris Valentine

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    Top Tech Trends for 2017 (and Beyond)

    Jay Boisseau & Jay Williams

201613 events

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    2nd Annual Technology for Giving and Sharing
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    Point/Counterpoint: Digital Dilemmas of Privacy v. Freedom in the Internet Age

    Andrew Donoho, Ryan Harkin, Admiral Bob Inman

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    “The Trolls” Advance Screening

    Lex Lybrand, Kirk Cesari, Pat Dean, Andrew Donoho

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    Virtual Reality in Austin: New Generation of Gaming & Beyond

    Patrick Curry

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    Smart City Approaches: Making Austin Even Better

    Ron Baker, Lisa Barden, Mateo Clarke, Ben Holland, Karl Popham, Steve Sharpless & Introduction by Mayor Steve Adler

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    Unlocking Opportunities: Achieving Diversity in Tech

    Ruben Cantu

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    How Can Technology Sustain the Live Music Capital of the World?

    Jennifer Houlihan

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    Attacking Austin’s Transportation Woes: Personal Rapid Transit

    Richard Garriott de Cayeux

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    Ridesharing: An Austin Town Hall on the Future of Transportation Network Companies (Uber, Lyft, and more)

    Karl Popham, Jen Duthie, Ben Holland & Joseph Kopser

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    Cybersecurity: Exploring the Business, Application, and Ethics of Information Security

    Tod Beardsley

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    Your Medical School: Are We Being Disruptive Enough?

    Dr. Mini Kahlon

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    New and Noteworthy for SXSW Interactive 2016

    Hugh Forrest

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    Building Austin’s $2.5 Billion Cleantech Industry

    Mitch Jacobson & Kathleen Baireuther

201511 events

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    1st Annual Technology for Giving and Sharing
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    The Digital Democracy

    Sherri Greenberg & Elyse Yates

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    Doctors, Data & Decisions

    Lynda Chin & Rob High

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    From Wearables to Cyborgs: The Present and Future Uses & Impacts of ‘Personal Tech

    Jerry Wilmink, Jon Werner & Rich MacKinnon

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    Tech and Music: The Perfect Storm

    Jennifer Houlihan

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    Austin 2.0: Using Devices, Data, and Analytics to Advance Austin

    Jay Boisseau, Ph.D, Ron Baker, Brian Dietrich, Meg Merritt & Chip Rosenthal

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    Transportation, Traffic, and Technology

    Rob Spillar & Jay Reddy

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    Internet 3.0: How Gigabit Speeds Will Transform the Internet and Change Austin

    Mark Strama

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    Biotech, MedTech, HealthTech: Austin Can Become a Leader

    Scott Collins, Ph.D.

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    Impact Through Innovation: Technologies Developed in Austin to Improve the World

    Suzi Sosa

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    SXSW Interactive: The Most Influential Technology Event on Earth?

    Hugh Forrest

201410 events

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    Dell Medical School: Vision and Progress

    Dr. Clay Johnston

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    When Hippocrates Meets Darwin: The Interface of Medicine and Evolutionary Biology

    Dr. Max Shpak

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    Maker Culture and the New Economy

    Kami Wilt , David Armistead & Maggie Duval

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    Can You See Me Now? The Importance of Visualization at AT&T in Improving the Customer Experience

    Dr. James Klosowski

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    Black Holes, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy through the Eyes of Texas

    Dr. Karl Gebhardt

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    Pessimistic Performance Analysis

    Benoit Chaffanjon

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    Emerging Threats and Capabilities: A U.S. Challenge

    Dr. Hans Mark

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    Diving Into Data: Harnessing the Power of Information

    Dr. Niall Gaffney & Dr. Michael Hasler

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    Pandora’s Promise

    Karen Hadden, Dale E. Klein & Fred C. Beach

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    Clinical Science at the Bedside

    Dr. Steven Warach

201312 events

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    Patient-Specific Computer Modeling and the Predictive Paradigm in Medicine

    Thomas Hughes, Ph.D.

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    Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Citizen Scientist?

    David Anderson, Ph.D.

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    The Rise of Neglected Tropical Diseases and Poverty in Developing Countries and the Southern United States

    Dr. Peter Hotez

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    Brain Altering Software: The Inevitable Next Step In Human Evolution?

    whurley, Kevin Leahy & Russell Poldrack, Ph.D.

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    A Thirst for Power: The Global Nexus of Energy and Water

    Michael Webber

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    Unscientific America

    Sheril Kirshenbaum

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    The Big Deal About Big Data – a Perspective from IBM Research

    Kevin Nowka

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    Surviving the 21st Century as a Thought Worker

    Jennifer Bullard

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    The 65.5 Million-Year-Old Chicxulub Impact Crater: Insights into Planetary Processes, Extinction and Evolution

    Sean Gulick, Ph.D.

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    What is Computed Here Changes the World: The Stampede Supercomputing System

    Jay Boisseau, Ph.D.

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    SXSW Interactive Preview: Space Exploration with Richard Garriott

    Hugh Forrest

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    How Goodwill Became a Learning Organization with the Help of Technology

    Zach Haines & Jerry Davis

201212 events

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    Enabling Biomedical Discoveries with Digital Data, Supercomputing and Visualization

    Patricia D. Hurn, Ph.D., Jay Boisseau, Ph.D., Matt Vaughn, Ph.D. & James Bankson, Ph.D.

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    Solutions for Heart Disease: The Science of the Future Today

    Doris Taylor

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    More Than You Think You Know: Analyzing the Data That’s Around Us

    John Gordon

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    TEDxAustin: A Million Decisions Behind One Big Idea

    Nancy Giordano & Shawna Butler

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    From Sous Vide to Social Search, How Technology is Changing How We Cook and Eat

    Addie Broyles & Michael Chu

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    Securing Texas’ Water Future

    Danny Reible

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    The Smart Grid Unveiled: How Pecan Street’s Big Data Research is Uncovering the Promise of a Customer-Driven Energy Revolution

    Brewster McCracken

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    Using Technology to Refine Physical Education in the 21st Century

    Jen Ohlson

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    Product Design: The New Interplay of People, Objects, and Information

    Dean Andrew Dillon, Diane E. Bailey & Randolph Bias

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    Teen Researcher: Discovering A New Treatment for Ovarian Cancer

    Dr. Alakananda Basu & Shree Bose

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    A Preview to SXSW Interactive: Social Media & Non-Profits

    Hugh Forrest, Heidi Schultz Adams & David J. Neff

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    The Predictive Brain: How Past Memories Influence Future Decisions

    Alison Preston, Ph. D.

201112 events

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    How Our Words Reflect Who We Are

    James Pennebaker

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    Stem Cell Therapy in the Treatment of Patients with Ischemic Heart Failure

    Dr. Emerson Perin

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    Innovating with University Startups

    Bob Metcalfe

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    Cybersecurity Today: Trends, Risk Mitigation and Research

    Brad Englert, Dr. Fred Chang, Joe Anthony & Ronald Perez

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    The Emerging Age of Predictive Computational Science

    Tinsley Oden, Ph.D.

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    Cyberinfrastructure to Feed the World

    Dan Stanzione, Ph.D. & Matt Vaughn, Ph.D.

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    Future Shock: What Does the Day After Tomorrow Look Like?

    Dan Reed, Ph.D.

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    Competitiveness, Congress, and You!

    Sue Fratkin

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    Dengue Drug Discovery: Using Global Computing to Combat a Global Disease

    Stan Watowich

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    Put It Back: Geologic Sequestration for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions

    Tip Meckel, Ph.D.

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    Picture This – Visualizing Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

    Kelly Gaither, Ph.D.

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    Digital Human Face Recognition

    Shalini Gupta

201012 events

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    CPRIT: Opportunities and Challenges

    Alfred Gilman, M.D., Ph.D.

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    Transmedia Storytelling

    Daniel Lorenzetti & Juan Garcia

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    Hopes and Fears for Big Science

    Dr. Steve Weinberg

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    The Next Generation Engineer

    John Volkman, Allyson Peerman, Michael Webber & Melissa Lott

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    “Gray” Technologies for Global Aging: Bringing Healthcare Home

    Eric Dishman

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    Digital Display Holography: Historical Survey and Recent Developments

    Mark Holzbach

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    Creating a Dynamic Clean Energy Economy

    Brewster McCracken

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    Bio-Tech: The Next Big Thing

    Ana C. Ward

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    IBM and Austin: Partners in a “Smarter Planet”

    Brad McCredie & Tony Befi

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    A Look at SXSW’s Interactive Past, Present, and Future

    Shawn O’Keefe

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    Supercomputing: Why It’s Super for Austin… and You!

    Jay Boisseau, Ph. D.

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    Game Tutorials – Making Technology Accessible

    Sheri Graner Ray

200911 events

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    The Young and the Digital: What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future

    S. Craig Watkins

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    The Internet and the Obama Administration – So Far

    Gary Chapman

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    Transformational Changes from Energy Research: From Deal Killers to Academy Awards

    Dr. Ray Orbach

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    Why Supercomputing Matters — And How You Are Helping

    Jay Boisseau, Ph. D.

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    Cybernetics of Climate

    Michael Tobis, Ph.D.

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    Green Star State: How Texas Can Get Rich Leading the Green Energy Revolution

    Michael Webber

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    3D – The Next Wave in Visual Entertainment

    Alan Luecke

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    Insights on Technology Trends and their Impact on Game Systems Design

    Peter Walker, Ph.D.

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    The Brickley Engine

    Mike Brickley

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    Sherlock Holmes: One of The Greatest Statisticians Who Never Lived

    James Bryant, Ph.D.

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    Local Food Enthusiasts & Writers

    Addie Broyles

200810 events

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    The Web of Politics: Technology’s Impact on Political Campaigns

    Mario Champion

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    Communicating and Collaborating for Change

    Tricia Berry

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    Use of Text Mining and Visualization to Infer Work Dynamics from Organizational Records

    Maria Esteva, Ph.D.

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    Remote Laser Cancer Surgery: A Minimally Invasive Alternative to the Standard Treatment

    David Fuentes, Ph.D.

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    Technology in Higher Education

    Kathy Schmidt, Ph.D. & Juan Garcia

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    Science, Technology & Society

    Paul Toprac, Ph.D.

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    The Most Powerful Computer in the World: Early Results and Future Plans

    Jay Boisseau, Ph.D.

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    Using Brain Imaging, Computational, and Psychophysical Technologies to Understand Attention Deficit Disorder

    David Gilden, Ph.D.

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    Technology Commercialization

    Gary Cadenhead, Ph.D.

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    Sustainable Design

    Steven Moore, Ph.D.

200712 events

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    Research and Learning in the 3-D Virtual World Environment of Second Life

    Leslie Jarmon, Ph.D.

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    AMD’s 50×15 Initiative and One Laptop Per Child: Making Digital Inclusion a Reality

    Steve Howard

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    The Use of Computer Technology in Meteorological Education and the Review of Weather Data

    Troy Kimmel

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    Not Your Grandson’s Playstation

    Rodney Gibbs

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    “World Community Grid”

    Viktors Berstis

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    Microelectronics: The Beginning of the End, or the End of the Beginning?

    Sanjay Banerjee, Ph.D.

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    Commercial Computers: Backbones to IT Revolution.Big, Hungry, and, Growing

    Tom Keller, Ph.D.

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    Virtual Worlds: Connecting People, Places, and Spaces

    Joe Sanchez

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    Climate Prediction: The Do’s and Don’ts

    Charles Jackson, Ph.D.

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    Technology in the Classroom: Tradition Versus Innovation

    Cynthia Schneider, Ph.D. & Timothy Pope

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    SXSW Interactive Festival

    Hugh Forrest

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    Supercomputing: Transforming Science and Enriching Society

    Jay Boisseau, Ph.D.

20064 events

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    Digital Divide

    Leroy Jones

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    But What If the Player is Female?

    Sheri Graner Ray

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    Social Impacts of Technology in the 21st Century

    Dr. Elizabeth Keating, Ph.D.

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    Empowering Users in the Creative World with the Production Power of Technology

    Charlie Boswell

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