event: December Dorkbot is Wednesday
by Greg on Nov.28, 2009, under Science Event
| December 2, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Hope everyone found an activity to burn off the extra calories consumed the past three days. It’s a gastric battle over here. Just read the lineup for Dorkbot this wednesday at, as always, Location 1 and take note science fans, it is an impressive lineup:
what: dorkbot-nyc meeting
when: 02 December, 2009, 7-9pm
where: Location One, 20 Greene St. between Canal and Grand
$$: $FREE$+++++
The 28.0855th dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place at 7pm on Wednesday,
December 2nd, 2009 at Location One in SoHo.The meeting is free and open to the public. Please bring snacks to
share. YUMM.We’re always looking for (and playing) more dorkbot theme songs (and
videos!)! Send one and we’ll play it at the start of the meeting.+++++
Featuring the lustrous and crystalline:
Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo: The Moments Between Still & Moving
Photography is traditionally considered a medium that pauses time. In
her recent artwork, Lawson Jaramillo positions photography as a media
art by developing bodies of work that use it to extend and challenge our
traditional notions of space and time. At dorkbot-nyc she will present
her digitally and physically layered photographs and will focus on her
recent experiments with extremely slow moving videos and coded
generative image-based works.
http://www.cynthialawson.comArno Klein: Brain Labeling
I will presenting examples of how and why people label brain images,
from painstaking, manual labeling of human brain MRI data to fully
automated labeling algorithms. I will also give a preview of a new
NIH-funded project that will manually label 1,000 brain images and
borrow a strategy from face recognition to serve as the brains
underlying a new fully automated brain labeling software program called
Mindboggle.
http://www.binarybottle.comDavid Birchfield: Gamebot
In the GameBot exhibition at the Arizona Science Center, humans and
robots to come together for interactive game-play that explores the
social, technological, and sustainability dimensions of robotics. Teams
of artists, game-designers and scientists from Arizona and beyond have
collaborated to create three new GameBot pieces that were unveiled at
the exhibition.
http://ame2.asu.edu/projects/emlearning/projects/gamebot
I will be there filming like usual so come say hi if you come down!
:brain labeling, dorkbot, douglas repetto, fMRI, location 1, robots, science, social networks
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