SPEAKER: Jan Hauser, Integrated Innovation TITLE: Internet Augmented Society
TIME: Wednesday, 10 January 2007 @ 12:30p LOCATION: Redfish Conference Room, 624 Agua Fria Street Lunch will be avialable for $5 ABSTRACT: Modern life-patterns have produced many benefits for humanity but some perilous side-effects of our current systems threaten the sustainability of human life and living systems as we know them. Current trends in broadcast media (Radio, TV, Newspapers) do not seem to supply quality information needed to cope with our modern problems. Can "New Media" help to alleviate some of our most pressing problems? Jan will give an informal and interactive overview of the progress on some of his more audacious current projects: - The Augmented Social Network: Building identity and trust into the next-generation Internet (Jan Hauser co-author) http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_8/jordan/index.htm - Targeted Social Networking Systems - Helping birds of a-feather find and join their flock - Miscellaneous Impromptu Discussion on Demand BIO: Jan is a former Principal Architect of Sun Microsystems and Visiting Professor at The Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey. Jan also worked germ detection for Apollo 11, and so-called "Chaords"-- the idea that new self-organizing institutions could be designed from scratch. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
