FC: Events: ACM conference, EFF seminar, Big Brother awards

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 15:50:33 -0800
> From: Barbara Simons <simons () acm org>
> To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
> Subject: A Major ACM Conference
>
> Declan,
> Would you please post this on your list.
> Thanks.
> Barbara
>
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>
> ACM examines the future of information technology (IT) and the
> potential impact of IT on science and society at "ACM1: Beyond
> Cyberspace," a special Conference (March 12-14, 2001) and
> Exposition (March 10-13), held at the San Jose Convention
> Center. Register at: http://www.acm.org/acm1.
>
> Speakers include: Steve Ballmer (Microsoft), David Baltimore
> (California Institute of Technology); Rodney A. Brooks (MIT AI
> Lab); Bill Buxton (Alias/Wavefront); Vint Cerf (WorldCom/ICANN);
> Rita Colwell (NSF); Sylvia Earle (National Geographic Society);
> Shirley Ann Jackson (RPI); Dean Kamen (DEKA and FIRST);
> Alan Kay (Disney Imagineering); Ray Kurzweil (Kurzweil
> Technologies, Inc.); Marcia McNutt (Monterey Bay Aquarium
> Research Inst.); Martin Schuurmans (Philips Center for Industrial
> Technology); and Neil de Grasse Tyson (Hayden Planetarium),
> with Bob Metcalfe as Master of Ceremonies.
>
> The FREE "hands-on" Exposition, a "field day for the mind,"
> geared for families and kids, will showcase the latest R&D
> software & hardware from 70+ companies, universities, and
> research/educational institutions.  ACM1 also features a FREE
> Educators Day (March 10th) that will address broad educational
> initiatives and provide educators with provenstrategies for
> engaging girls and minorities in technology-based education.
> For ACM1 educational offerings:
> http://www.acm.org/acm1/educators.

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> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 20:42:01 -0800
> To: declan () well com
> From: Lee Tien <tien () eff org>
> Subject: FYI -- worth a politech mention
>
> Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Advisory
>
> February 12th- BayFF with Lawrence Lessig on "Architecting Innovation"
>
>
>  WHO:    Electronic Frontier Foundation, Lawrence Lessig. Music by
>                UKUSA
> WHAT:  "BayFF" centers on Architecture and Innovation on the Web
> WHEN:   Monday, February 12th, 2000, at 7pm PT
> WHERE:  Stanford Law School, room 290
>                  Crown Quadrangle
>                  559 Nathan Abbott Way
>                  Stanford, CA 94305-8610
>                  (650)725-2565
>
> This event is free and open to the general public. Food and beverages will
> be served.
>
> Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at the Stanford Law School. He was the
> Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. From 1991 to 1997, he was a
> professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He graduated from Yale
> Law School in 1989, and then clerked for Judge Richard Posner of the 7th
> Circuit Court of Appeals, and Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court.
>
> Lessig teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, contracts,
> comparative constitutional law, and the law of cyberspace. His book, Code,
> and Other Laws of Cyberspace, is published by Basic Books. In 1999-2000, he
> was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. Lessig will discuss the
> changing architecture of the Internet and how these changes, both legal and
> technical, will effect the environment for innovation.
>
>
> For more information, see:
>
> http://www.eff.org
>
> http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lessig.html
>
>
> For directions to the event, you can use free services like
> http://www.mapquest.com or http://maps.yahoo.com to generate driving
> directions or maps. For BART, CalTrain and Muni directions, please call
> their information lines.
>
> February's BayFF will be Webcast by Eclipsnow! which has kindly
> donated its services to EFF. Eclipsnow! has been Webcasting corporate
> events, public affairs music and entertainment since 1996. Eclipsnow!'s
> Web site:
> http://www.eclipsnow.com
>
> BayFF is first and foremost a real-space event, meant to serve as an
> educational forum for the local community, as well as a catalyst for
> like-minded activists. Locals, please show your support in person!
> BayFF fans and followers that are scattered across the country and
> around the world can check the EFF Website for a link to the Webcast.
> See the BayFF homepage at:
> http://www.eff.org/bayff
>
> Continuing over 10 years of defending civil liberties online, EFF
> presents a series of regular meetings to address important issues where
> technology and policy collide. These meetings, entitled "BayFF"
> (Bay-area Friends of Freedom), kicked off on July 10, 2000, and will
> continue on a monthly basis.
>
> You can subscribe to receive future BayFF announcements. To subscribe,
> email majordomo () eff org and put this in the text (not the subject line):
> subscribe bayff.
>
> The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading civil liberties
> organization working to protect rights in the digital world. Founded in
> 1990, EFF actively encourages and challenges industry and government to
> support free expression, privacy, and openness in the information
> society. EFF is a member-supported organization and maintains one of the
> most-linked-to Web sites in the world:
> http://www.eff.org
>
> Contact:
> Katina Bishop
> Director of Education and Offline Activism
> Electronic Frontier Foundation
> +1 415 436 9333 x101
> katina () eff org
> --
> **********************************
> Lee Tien
> Senior Staff Attorney
> Electronic Frontier Foundation
> 454 Shotwell Street
> San Francisco, CA  94110
> (415) 436-9333 x 102 (tel)
> (415) 436-9993 (fax)
> tien () eff org

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> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 15:46:07 -0500
> To: list <pi () privacy org>
> From: David Banisar <dbanisar () privacy org>
> Subject: Call for Nominations: 2001 US Big Brother Awards
>
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>                            CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
>
>                      THE 2001 U.S. BIG BROTHER AWARDS
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>
> On March 7, 2001 the watchdog group Privacy International will hold the
> third annual "U.S. Big Brother Awards" to name and shame the public and
> private sector individuals and organizations which have done the most to
> invade personal privacy in the United States in the past year. The ceremony
> will be held at the Cambridge Hyatt in Cambridge, Mass at the 2001 
> Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference.
>
> Three distinctive "Orwell" statutes of a golden boot stomping a head will
> be presented to the government agencies, companies and initiatives which
> have done most to invade personal privacy. A "lifetime achievement"
> award will also be presented to the organization that has systematically
> invaded privacy over a long period of time.
>
> Previous "winners" in the United States include The Federal Bureau of
> Investigation, DoubleClick, The FAA's BodyScan system, the Department of
> Commerce and Microsoft.
>
> Positive "Brandeis" awards will be also be given out to champions of 
> privacy. The Brandeis Award is named after US Supreme Court Justice Louis 
> Brandeis, who is considered the father of American privacy law, describing 
> privacy as "the right to be left alone." The awards are given to those 
> have done exemplary work to protect and enhance privacy.
>
> The judging panel, consisting of lawyers, academics, consultants,
> journalists and civil rights activists, are inviting nominations from
> members of the public. Nominations can be made directly from the site:
>
>      http://www.privacyinternational.org/bigbrother/us2001/
>
> Privacy International will post the 'most popular' current nominations
> on the site.
>
> More information on the Computers, Freedom and Privacy 2001 Conference
> is available at:
>
>      http://www.cfp2001.org/
>
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>
> About the Big Brother Awards
>
> The first awards ceremony was held in October 1998 in the United Kingdom
> on the 50th anniversary of the writing of George Orwell's 1984. There
> have now been 10 awards ceremonies in 6 countries - US, UK, Austria,
> France, Germany, and Switzerland and PI members and associated groups
> are planning events in several more countries.
>
> The International Big Brother Awards page can be found at:
>
>      http://www.privacyinternational.org/bigbrother/
>
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>
> About Privacy International
>
> Privacy International (PI) is a human rights group formed in 1990 as a
> watchdog on surveillance by governments and corporations. PI is based in
> London, England, and has an office in Washington, D.C. PI has conducted
> campaigns throughout the world on issues ranging from wiretapping and
> national security activities, to ID cards, video surveillance, data
> matching, police information systems, medical privacy and Freedom of
> Information. PI's membership includes IT specialists, lawyers, judges
> and journalists from forty countries. More information on PI is
> available at:
>
>      http://www.privacyinternational.org/
>
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> --
> -------
> David Banisar, Deputy Director             *  Banisar () privacy org
> Privacy International - Washington Office  *  (202) 483-1217 (tel)
> 1718 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 200       *  (202) 483-1248 (fax)
> Washington, DC 20009          http://www.privacyinternational.org/




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