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For Pittsburgh IPers Inaugural Alan J. Perlis Fun Lecture in Computer Science: Thursday, September 21
From: "Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 11:51:31 -0400
The Inaugural Alan J. Perlis Fun Lecture in Computer Science Thursday, September 21, 2017 - 4:00 pm - Refreshments - 4:30 pm - Lecture Rashid Auditorium - 4401 Gates Hillman Centers An endowed lecture created for our community, co-directed by our SCS Undergraduates! SCOTT BERKUN Author and Speaker (and alum!) Scott Berkun is a bestselling author and popular speaker on creativity, philosophy, culture, business and many other subjects. He’s the author of six books, including: The Myths of Innovation, Confessions of a Public Speaker, and The Year Without Pants. His work has appeared, or been mentioned, in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Guardian, Wired magazine, USA Today, Fast Company, National Public Radio, The Huffington Post and other media. Born and raised in Queens, NYC, he studied philosophy, computer science and design at Carnegie Mellon University, was a manager at Microsoft (’94-’03) and WordPress.com (’10-’12), taught creativity at the University of Washington, was a co-host of CNBC’s The Business of Innovation TV show, is named on 5 U.S. patents, blogs for Harvard Business and BusinessWeek, and has appeared as an expert on various subjects on CNN, CNBC, NPR and MSNBC. He’s also the MC and speaker coach for Ignite Seattle, a finalist in the Amtrak 2014 writer’s residency program and the director of the short film We Make Seattle. His latest business book, The Dance of The Possible, launched on March 2017. Booksigning: Copies of Scott's books will be available at the lecture for signature and great enjoyment. Questions: scs-dls () cs cmu edu
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