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  • Amber Case 4:09 pm on August 24, 2014 Permalink
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    Speaker Announcement: Chris Dancy!

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    I’m proud to announce that Chris Dancy, CyborgCamp 2012 emeritus, will be presenting at CyborgCamp MIT! Dancy came out of his “data closet” in Portland by showing a small unconference audience what he was doing with his own data. Wired writer Klintron Finley was in the room, and the rest is history.

    Chris utilizes 300-700 sensors, devices, applications, and services to track, analyze, and optimize as many areas of his existence as he can think of. This quantification enables him to see the connections of otherwise invisible data, resulting in dramatic upgrades to his health, productivity, and quality of life.

    Chris’s name and avatar are synonymous with the future of work, edutainment, technically-enabled external evolution, and his quantified life (existence). He travels extensively and speaks on these topics and more, and has been featured in Fox News, NPR, BBC, TechCrunch, Businessweek, Wired, Bloomberg TV, and The Guardian as the “Most connected human on Earth.”

    You can follow Chris Dancy on Twitter @servicesphere.

    Need a ticket to CyborgCamp MIT? Get one while they last or sign up to attend remotely!

    Want to comment on this post? Share on Facebook or Twitter with your comment and it will show up below!

     
  • Amber Case 1:25 pm on August 24, 2014 Permalink
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    Announcing the CyborgCamp Pre-party on Friday, Oct 9th, 2014!

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    Mead Hall by Adam Gerard

    Mark your calendars! The official CyborgCamp Pre-Party will be on Thursday, October 9, 2014 at Mead Hall at Kendall Square/MIT.

    Want to meet fellow CyborgCamp attendees before the unconference on Friday? Come down to Mead Hall and enjoy friendly libations in a warm atmosphere with other interesting humans.

    Location:

    Mead Hall Kendall Square
    4 Cambridge Ctr
    Cambridge, MA 02142

    RSVP on EventBrite to Attend:

    Eventbrite - CyborgCamp MIT Media Lab

     
  • Amber Case 1:15 pm on August 24, 2014 Permalink
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    Sponsor Announcement: The Mindful Cyborgs Podcast!

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    We’re proud to announce Mindful Cyborgs Podcast as our first sponsor for CyborgCamp 2014 at MIT!

    What is Mindful Cyborgs? Mindful Cyborgs is an audio podcast featuring topics such as mindfulness, cyborgs, contemplative computing, bio/lifehacking and unhacking, frictionless existence, quantified self netocracy, robotics and digital duality.

    Mindful Cyborgs started because of a CyborgCamp event! Klint Finley, TechCrunch and Wired writer, and Chris Dancy, known as the “world’s most connected human” met at CyborgCamp Portland 2012 and got along so well that they decided to start this very interesting podcast! We’re excited to have them on board in support of this event!

    Tune in!

    Interested in listening to Mindful Cyborgs? Check out some recent episodes here!

     
  • Amber Case 1:12 pm on August 24, 2014 Permalink
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    CyborgCamp hits MIT Media Lab on Oct 10, 2014!

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    At long last, we’ll be hosting CyborgCamp at MIT Media Lab all day on Oct 10, 2014! Join us for a full day’s discussion on the future of humans and technology!

    MIT Media Lab

    MIT Media Lab Annex by The Knight Foundation

    What is CyborgCamp?

    CyborgCamp is an unconference about the future of the relationship between humans and technology. We will discuss topics such as futures of identity, privacy, surveillance, hardware to wetware, drones, 3D printing, cyberpunk, human augmentation, constructed reality, the second self, ethics, robot rights, sexuality, urban design, and anthropology.

    Join us October 10 from 09:00 to 18:00 (6p) on the 3rd floor of the MIT Media Lab for a one-day unconference on the future of humanity and technology! This is the very first CyborgCamp at MIT Media Lab and one of many CyborgCamp events.

    Tickets

    Eventbrite - CyborgCamp MIT Media Lab

    RSVP on Facebook

    CyborgCamp MIT Media Lab on Facebook


    Scholarship Tickets for Students

    CyborgCamp aims to be an affordable unconference, but we also aim to provide a number of scholarship tickets to current students. To apply for free conference admission, please fill out the form here: 
CyborgCamp MIT 2014 Scholarship Application Form.

     
  • Amber Case 4:57 pm on November 3, 2012 Permalink  

    CyborgCamp Portland 2012 Livestream! 


    Live stream by Ustream

     
  • Amber Case 9:48 pm on October 28, 2012 Permalink
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    Crisis Commons/Hurricane Sandy and Wearable Computing Hackathon – Sunday, Nov 4th! 

    Join us on Sunday, Nov 4th at 10am at Geoloqi HQ for an all-day Crisis Commons and wearable computing hackathon! This two track hackathon has something for everyone, and we’re excited to host it at Geoloqi HQ!

    It’s free! You can participate as an individual or a team. Breakfast and coffee will be available in the morning, and we’ll head to the food carts for lunch.

    REGISTER HERE

    About the Wearable Computing Hackathon

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    The wearable computing hackathon is for those comfortable with soldering and working with electronics.

    Bring your own equipment

    Though we’ll have a Makey Makey, Lilypad Arduino, some soldering irons and other equipment, this hackathon theme is for those more familiar with electronics that have some of their own equipment. We recommend bringing a soldering iron and some kind of kit or electronic components and breadboards at the very least.

    Don’t have your own electronic equipment? Join the Crisis Commons Hackathon! (See details below).

    About the Crisis Commons Hackathon

    hurricane-sandy-crisis-commons-nasa-photo-300x187 Do you want to help with Sandy response? Come design, code, and learn with other people this weekend at CrisisCamp! CrisisCamps are hosted in a barcamp style where great minds come together to share their knowledge and expertise for social good.

    Come prepared:
    If you’re a developer, make sure your programs are up to date. Learn how github works. Learn about potential projects at http://www.hurricanehackers.com/projects. There will also be talks by local Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) on how technology can be used (and not) in this situations. If you’re a designer or otherwise, come prepared with ideas and help create usable interfaces!

    This event is free and open to the public. You don’t have to be technical to volunteer time. Also, you may show up at anytime during the day for as long as you wish – although obviously we will get the most done with the most people there.

    CrisisCamps this weekend

    Portland, OR, in conjunction with CyborgCamp : http://portland.cyborgcamp.com/
    Seattle, WA : http://sandycrisiscampsea.eventbrite.com
    Don’t see your city listed? If you have a venue lined up, ping sandy@gwob.org and we’ll get you set up. Once venues are live, we’ll add them to this list.

    About CrisisCamp

    CrisisCamp brings together domain experts, developers, and first responders around improving technology and practice for humanitarian crisis management and disaster relief. Each and every day, people across the world can find themselves in crisis. Whether it be for a day, a month or an area of social distress, we all have a common need to connect with loved ones, access information and offer assistance to others.

    REGISTER HERE

    Update: due to demand we opened an additional 20 slots!

    Wearable-Computing-Hackathon

    Schedule

    • Doors open at 10:00am with breakfast and coffee.
    • Coding will stop at 5:30pm, and teams and individuals will demo their apps.
    • Cleanup and after-events. Likely at the Lotus.

    Location

    Geoloqi HQ
    920 SW 3rd Ave #400
    Portland, OR 97204

    Who Should Attend?

    Hardware hackers, Ruby, Python, PHP, web developers, coders, interaction designers, graphic designers and anyone who has a passion to code, hack or conceptualize applications that will free (or otherwise enhance) the accessibility and usefulness of government-shared data or wearable technology.

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    Although the sprint takes place on Nov 4th after CyborgCamp Portland, you don’t have to be attending the conference to join us.

    Participation is free and open to anyone with an interest in design or coding… we just ask that you register in advance so we know how many we need to accommodate.

     
  • Amber Case 12:18 am on September 10, 2012 Permalink
    Tags: adron hall, code, cyborg clouds, platforms, ,   

    Adron Hall to speak on Coding Cyborg Clouds at CyborgCamp Portland 2012! 

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    New Speaker!

    We’re excited to announce that Adron Hall will be talking about Coding Cyborg Clouds at CyborgCamp Portland 2012!

    What’s a Cyborg Cloud? You’ll simply have to attend and see!

    Adron is also sponsoring CyborgCamp through his blog, Composite Code.

    About Adron Hall

    Adron is a jovial, TDD, BDD, get things done well, software architect, engineer, code monkey, coder, cloud advocate, distributed systems junkie. Adron’s brain runs the gamut of dev stacks from Ruby on Rails, Node.js and .NET. I’ll admit a favorite is JavaScript with a dose of Node.js these days. He’s passionate about devops and especially PaaS (Platform as a Service) Technologies. Adron loves to get involved in hackathons, user groups, and other tech community events.

    You can follow Adron at @adron on Twitter.

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  • Amber Case 10:45 pm on August 10, 2012 Permalink
    Tags: cybernetics, management, mike merrill, , , publicly traded person, ,   

    Community through Capitalism, a Personal Take on Cybernetic Management 

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    New Speaker Announcement!

    Portland Oregon’s Mike Merrill is a unique individual. He is the world’s only publicly traded person. What does this mean? It means that Mr. Merrill’s life is directed by his shareholders, and you can buy stock in him and vote on his future at http://kmikeym.com/. This means that his life and his life story is entangled in a cybernetic control loop of sorts. Because of this, Mr. Merrill will be giving a talk on Community through Capitalism, a Personal Take on Cybernetic Management.

    Speech Overview

    Norbert Wiener defined cybernetics as the study of regulation, control and communications in life forms and the machine. In a business context, such an approach helps managers understand and deal with complex situations. Mike Merrill argues that what works for business also works for the individual. He is a publicly-traded person that allows his shareholders to guide him through the complex situations in his own life. Complex personal decisions about things like procreation, professional affiliations, volunteer work, politics, and even his dating life are controlled by people who purchased a stake in his future.

    About Mr. Merrill

    Just as a person might say their parents want the best for them and are invested in their future, Mike Merrill’s parents are literally invested. As are co-workers, ex-girlfriends, and his community of friends and collaborators. And a handful of strangers. Mike Merrill has been a publicy-traded person since 2008 and a fan of applying the principles of business to his personal life since long before that. He is struggling to read Stafford Beer’s Cybernetics and Management writing up a Relationship Contract with the girl he is seeing.

    Invest in Mr. Merrill!

    You can invest in Mr. Merrill at http://kmikeym.com/ or follow him on Twitter at @kmikeym.

     
  • Amber Case 10:39 pm on August 10, 2012 Permalink
    Tags: bitcoin, cryptocurrency, cyberpunk, decentralized, , history, kyle drake, money, , , ,   

    Kyle Drake – Bitcoin, the Cyberpunk Cryptocurrency Unconference Session 

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    New Speaker Announcement!

    We’re excited to have Geoloqi platform engineer Kyle Drake give a deep dive into Bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies, and the past and future of money.

    Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies

    Bitcoin is touted for its many improvements to traditional currency. It is easy to transfer, requires no central authority to administer, works across political boundaries, and is easy to use.

    But beyond the practical niceties and technical implementation details is the true intention of its pseudonymous inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto, who has now vanished and is unwilling to tell his story. Bitcoin is trying to solve a much larger problem: the flaws of present-day centralized currencies that lead to economic instability.

    The Future of Cryptocurrencies and Money

    But will it work? In this talk, Drake will demystify currency and delve into the fundamentals of economic exchange. I will discuss how currencies work, what gives them their value, some of their flaws, and how these flaws manifest themselves in our world. Drake will discuss how decentralized cryptocurrencies propose to solve these problems, the rearchitecture of our economic lives that would happen if we used them for everything, and their potential flaws.

    About Kyle Drake

    Kyle Drake is a platform engineer at Geoloqi, Inc. He’s into Startups, Software Engineering, Economics, Bitcoin, GIS, and Low Power Radio. Want to ask Kyle any questions before his talk? Follow him at @kyledrake or visit his website at http://kyledrake.net/.

     
  • Amber Case 10:14 pm on August 10, 2012 Permalink
    Tags: app, dann stayskal, hud, jill burrows, , , superpowers, Synaesthesia   

    Dann Stayskal and Jill Burrows to talk on Computer-Aided Synaesthesia 

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    What’s it like to be Synaesthetic?

    Dann Stayskal is polymodally synaesthetic. He sees sound and hears light (among other crossed modalities). Superpowers is an app he’s been kicking around for a few years: an app simulates for other people what it’s like to have this form of synaesthesia that unifies hearing and vision.

    Programmed Synaesthesia

    Using a camera and a microphone, Superpowers pulls in a/v data, cross-modulates it (thankfully Dann’s form of synaesthesia is fairly mathematically straightforward to model), then outputs it through a display and some speakers.

    The purpose of this short 20 minute lightning talk will be to demonstrate how cyborg tech can bridge people’s sensory experience cross-modally.

    Try it Out!

    Superhuman will be demoed CyborgCamp on an Android device (or failing that, Dann’s laptop) paired with a head-mounted display. Come check it out! Until then, you can follow @danndalf and @jburrows.

     
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