Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now * 4:30PM, Wed October 24, 2018 in Gates B03

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: "Dennis Allison" <allison () stanford edu>
> Date: October 24, 2018 17:13:57 JST
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: [EE CS Colloq] Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now * 4:30PM, Wed October 24, 
> 2018 in Gates B03
> Reply-To: "Dennis Allison" <allison () stanford edu>
>
> Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium
>
> 4:30 PM, Wednesday, October 24, 2018
> NEC Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building Room B3 
> http://ee380.stanford.edu
>
> Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now and other thoughts about Internet.
> Jaron Lanier 
> Microsoft
>
> About the talk:
>
> To Be Provided.
>
> About the Speaker
>
>       Jaron Lanier is one of the formative figures in Virtual Reality technology. He and his friends started the 
> first company to sell VR products in the early 1980s. They manufactured and sold the first commercial gear (such as 
> VR headsets) and created the first implementations of multi-person vr experiences, first avatars, real time surgical 
> simulation, VR vehicle prototyping, virtual sets for television production, and assorted other firsts. He either 
> coined or popularized the term Virtual Reality, depending on how you think about it, as well as the term Mixed 
> Reality He's had many other roles related to computer science, such as being the chief scientist of the engineering 
> office of Internet2 in the 1990s.
> Jaron also writes books, including You Are Not a Gadget, Who Owns the Future, Dawn of the New Everything, and Ten 
> Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now. His writing expresses a path towards sustainable digital 
> economics and humanism in high tech culture. He won the German Peace Prize for books as well as many other awards. 
> He's been a concept consultant on sci fi movies like Minority Report and The Circle.
>
> He also plays a zillion musical instruments and has a huge collection of exotic ones. He's played with Philip Glass, 
> Ornette Coleman, Yoko Ono, George Clinton, and many other interesting musicians. He collaborates with varied 
> scientists at the edge of computation. He and his friends have spun off startups that are now parts of Google, Adobe, 
> Oracle, and Pfizer. He's currently the "octopus" at Microsoft, which does stand for something: Office of the Chief 
> Technology Officer Prime Unifying Scientist.
>
> ABOUT THE COLLOQUIUM:
>
> See the Colloquium website, http://ee380.stanford.edu, for scheduled speakers, FAQ, and additional information. 
> Stanford and SCPD students can 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.
>
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