Interesting People mailing list archives
Can Hi-tech Hitchhiking Work? * 4:15PM, Wed April 22, 2009 in Gates B01
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:17:53 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: allison () stanford edu Date: April 18, 2009 5:27:12 PM EDT To: dave () farber netSubject: [EE CS Colloq] Can Hi-tech Hitchhiking Work? * 4:15PM, Wed April 22, 2009 in Gates B01
Reply-To: ee380 () shasta stanford edu Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium 4:15PM, Wednesday, April 22, 2009 HP Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B01 http://ee380.stanford.edu[1] Topic: Can Hi-tech Hitchhiking Work? Speaker: Jim Morris Carnegie Mellon University +--------------------------------------------------------+ | This is a special Earth Day[2] talk. Earth Day is | | celebrated April 22 every year. Earth Day is intended | | to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's | | environment. | +--------------------------------------------------------+ About the talk: Cell phones and the web might breath life into this old form of travel, but can it overcome the cult of the car? A lot of people are trying to make it work, but many have failed in the past. See bureau.sv.cmu.edu/~jhm/RideFriends.pdf[3] for the full story. Slides: There is no downloadable version of the slides for this talk available at this time. About the speaker: Dr. James H. Morris is a Professor of the Practice of Software and dean of the Silicon Valley Campus of Carnegie Mellon University. He received a Bachelor's degree from Carnegie Mellon, an MBA and Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT. He taught at the University of California at Berkeley where he developed some important underlying principles of programming languages: inter-module protection and lazy evaluation. He was a co-discoverer of the Knuth-Morris-Pratt string searching algorithm. For ten years he worked the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center where he was part of the team that developed the Alto System, a precursor to today’s personal computers. From 1983 to 1988 he directed the Information Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon, a joint project with IBM which developed a prototype university computing system, Andrew. From 1992 to 2004 he served as department head, then dean in the School of Computer Science. He held the Herbert A. Simon Professorship of Human Computer Interaction from 1997 to 2000. He has been the principal investigator of several NSF and DARPA projects aimed at computer-mediated communication. He is a founder of the MAYA Design Group, a consulting firm specializing in interactive product design. He also founded Carnegie Mellon’s Human Computer Interaction Institute, Robot Hall of Fame, and the Silicon Valley Campus. Contact information: Jim Morris jim.morris () sv cmu edu[4] Embedded Links: [ 1 ] http://ee380.stanford.edu [ 2 ] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day [ 3 ] http://bureau.sv.cmu.edu/~jhm/RideFriends.pdf [ 4 ] "mailto:jim.morris () sv cmu edu ABOUT THE COLLOQUIUM: See the Colloquium website, http://ee380.stanford.edu, for scheduled speakers, FAQ, and additional information. Stanford and SCPD studentscan enroll in EE380 for one unit of credit. Anyone is welcome to attend;
talks are webcast live and archived for on-demand viewing over the web. MAILING LIST INFORMATION: This announcement is sent to multiple mailing lists. If you are signed up on our private EE380 list you can remove yourself using the widget at the upper left hand corner of the Colloquium web page. Other lists have other management protocols. ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
Current thread:
- Can Hi-tech Hitchhiking Work? * 4:15PM, Wed April 22, 2009 in Gates B01 David Farber (Apr 18)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Can Hi-tech Hitchhiking Work? * 4:15PM, Wed April 22, 2009 in Gates B01 David Farber (Apr 19)
- Re: Can Hi-tech Hitchhiking Work? * 4:15PM, Wed April 22, 2009 in Gates B01 David Farber (Apr 19)