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| x Craig Venter |
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John Craig Venter (born October 14, 1946, Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American biologist and entrepreneur. Venter founded The Institute for Genomic Research and the J. Craig Venter Institute, now working at the latter to create synthetic biological...
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| x SIGGRAPH |
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SIGGRAPH (short for Special Interest Group on GRAPHics and Interactive Techniques) is the name of the annual conference on computer graphics (CG) convened by the ACM SIGGRAPH organization. The first SIGGRAPH conference was in 1974. The conference is...
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| x Susan Blackmore |
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Susan Jane Blackmore (born 29 July 1951) is an English freelance writer, lecturer, and broadcaster on psychology and the paranormal, perhaps best known for her book The Meme Machine.
In 1973, Susan Blackmore graduated from St. Hilda's College,...
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| x Windows Hardware Engineering Conference |
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The Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) is the annual software and hardware developer-oriented trade show and business conference where Microsoft elaborates on its hardware plans for Microsoft Windows-compatible PCs. It commonly...
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| x Macworld Conference & Expo |
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Produced by Boston-based IDG World Expo, Macworld Conference & Expo is a tradeshow with conference tracks dedicated to the Apple Macintosh platform. It is held annually in the United States, usually during the second week of January. Originally...
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| x Sri Sri Ravi Shankar |
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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (Tamil: ஸ்ரீ ஸ்ரீ ரவிஶங்கர் ; Kannada: ಶ್ರೀ ಶ್ರೀ ರವಿಶಂಕರ್) is a spiritual and humanitarian leader. He was born on May 13, 1956 in Tamil Nadu, India. He is often referred to by the double-honorific "Sri Sri", Guruji or Gurudeva....
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| x JavaOne |
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JavaOne is an annual conference (since 1996) put on by Sun Microsystems to discuss Java technologies, primarily among Java developers. JavaOne is held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California usually between April and June and typically...
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| x Worldwide Developers Conference |
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The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, commonly abbreviated WWDC, is a conference held annually in California by Apple Inc. The conference is primarily used by Apple to showcase its new software and technologies for developers, as well as...
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| x EducationaLinux |
EducationaLinux is an annual, open source conference in Australia that focuses primarily on Linux, but also other open source operating systems and software used in educational systems.
Started in the year 2003 by Leon Brooks, the 2004 conference is...
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| x COMDEX |
COMDEX (Computer Dealer's Exhibition) was a computer expo held in Las Vegas, Nevada, each November from 1979 to 2003. It was one of the largest computer trade shows in the world, usually second only to the German CeBIT, and by many accounts one of...
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| x International Computer Music Conference |
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The International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) is a yearly international conference for computer music researchers and composers. It is the annual conference of the International Computer Music Association (ICMA).
Each year there is a specific...
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| x Intel Developer Forum |
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Intel Developer Forum (IDF), is a gathering of technologists to discuss Intel products and products based around Intel products. The first IDF was in 1997. There is usually a Spring IDF and a Fall IDF.
To emphasize the importance of China, the...
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| x LISA |
LISA is the Large Installation System Administration Conference, co-sponsored by the computing professional organizations USENIX and SAGE.
The word "large" was dropped from the title of the 6th conference in 1992 (though retaining the "LISA" name)....
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| x West Coast Computer Faire |
The West Coast Computer Faire was an annual computer industry conference and exposition most often associated with San Francisco, its first and most frequent venue. The first faire was held in 1977 and was organized by Jim Warren and Bob Reiling. At...
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| x GUADEC |
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The GNOME Users And Developers European Conference, (GUADEC) is an annual conference taking place in Europe, whose topic is the development of the GNOME desktop environment.
The first GUADEC was organised by Mathieu Lacage as a one-off event and...
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| x Wizards of OS |
Wizards of OS (Wizards of Operating Systems, or "WOS") is a Berlin-based conference.
Its topics are the cultural and political potentials of free software, software technology, digital networks and media, and more generally information freedom and...
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| x H.O.P.E. |
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HOPE (abbreviation Hackers on Planet Earth or the first two letters in Hotel Pennsylvania) is a conference series sponsored by the hacker magazine 2600 The Hacker Quarterly. There have been seven conferences to date.
Held from August 13 to August 14...
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| x O'Reilly Open Source Convention |
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The O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) is an annual convention for the discussion of free and open source software. It is organized by the publisher O'Reilly Media and is held each summer in the United States.
The first OSCON was held in 1999. ...
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| x Notacon |
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Notacon (pronounced "not-a-con") is an art and technology conference which takes place annually in Cleveland, Ohio. The name Notacon became a bacronym for Northern Ohio Technological Advancement Conference, however use of this was mostly dropped...
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| x BloggerCon |
BloggerCon is a user-focused conference for the blogger community. BloggerCon I (October 2003) and II (April 2004), were organized by Dave Winer and friends at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for the Internet and Society in Cambridge, Mass....
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| x USENIX Annual Technical Conference |
The USENIX Annual Technical Conference is a conference of computing professions sponsored by the USENIX association. The conference includes computing tutorials, and a single track technical session for presenting refereed research papers, SIG...
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| x OOPSLA |
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OOPSLA (Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages & Applications) is an annual ACM conference.
OOPSLA is an annual conference covering topics on object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications. Like other conferences, OOPSLA...
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| x Neural Information Processing Systems |
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) is a machine learning and computational neuroscience conference held every December in Vancouver, Canada. It began in 1987 as a computational cognitive science conference, and was held in...
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| x PLDI |
Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI) is the name of one of the ACM SIGPLAN's most important conferences. The precursor of PLDI was the Symposium on Compiler Optimization, held July 27–28, 1970 at the University of Illinois at Urbana...
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| x Kaki King |
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Kaki King (born August 24, 1979 as Katherine Elizabeth King) is an American guitar player and singer-songwriter from Atlanta, Georgia.
King was born August 24, 1979 in Atlanta, Georgia. While King was still a small child, her father encouraged her...
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| x International Solid-State Circuits Conference |
International Solid-State Circuits Conference is a global forum for presentation of advances in solid-state circuits and Systems-on-a-Chip. The Conference offers a unique opportunity for engineers working at the cutting edge of IC design to maintain...
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| x Wade Davis |
Edmund Wade Davis (born December 14, 1953) is a noted Canadian anthropologist, ethnobotanist, author and photographer whose work has focused on worldwide indigenous cultures, especially in North and South America and particularly involving the...
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TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an academic organization owned by The Sapling Foundation, a private nonprofit foundation. TED is well-known for its annual, invitation-only conference devoted to "ideas worth spreading". TED is famous for...
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| x Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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Doris Kearns Goodwin (born Doris Helen Kearns on January 4, 1943) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American biographer and historian, and an oft-seen political commentator. She is the author of biographies of several U.S. Presidents, including Lyndon...
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| x Wikimania |
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Wikimania is a conference for users of the wiki projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. The first conference was held in Frankfurt, Germany, August 4–8, 2005; the second ran August 4–6, 2006, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; the third...
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| x International Conference on Bisexuality |
The International Conference on Bisexuality (ICB), also known as the 'International BiCon' is a periodic gathering of bisexual activists and academics from around the world.
Started by Fritz Klein and a group of fellow activists, the first ICB was...
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| x WikiSym |
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WikiSym is a short hand for International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration, or the Wiki Symposium, a conference dedicated to wiki research and practice. Its proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library.
WikiSym 2009 will be held in...
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| x WMSCI |
WMSCI, the World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, is a computer science and engineering conference that has occurred annually since 1995. It has been accused of having lax standards for acceptance of papers.
WMSCI is...
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| x Black Hat Briefings |
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The Black Hat Conference is a computer security conference that brings together a variety of different people interested in information security. Representatives of federal agencies and corporations attend along with hackers. The Briefings take...
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| x Foo Camp |
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Foo Camp is an annual hacker event hosted by publisher O'Reilly Media. O'Reilly describes it as "the wiki of conferences", where the program is developed by the attendees at the event, using big whiteboard schedule templates that can be rewritten or...
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| x Conference on Automated Deduction |
The Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE) is the premier academic conference on automated deduction and related fields. The first CADE was organized in 1974 at the Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago. Most CADE meetings have been held in...
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| x Datatjej |
Datatjej (translated: "computer girl" or "data girl") is an annual conference for women studying Computer science in Sweden. (The Computer Science education must be at least 4 years long). The conference lasts for 4 days and has about 100 visitors...
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| x BarCamp |
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BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences (or unconferences) - open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants. The first BarCamps focused on early-stage web applications, and related open...
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| x Professional Developers Conference |
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Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (or PDC) is a conference for software developers, normally Windows developers.
It covers new and upcoming technology from Microsoft, and so only occurs in the years when there is something new to talk...
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| x Solvay Conference |
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The International Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry, located in Brussels, were founded by the Belgian industrialist Ernest Solvay in 1912, following the historic invitation-only 1911 Conseil Solvay, the first world physics conference. The...
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| x Museums and the Web |
The annual Museums and the Web conference is the leading international conference in the field of museums and their websites. It has been organized by Archives & Museum Informatics each Spring in North America since 1997.
The conference considers...
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| x Peter Ward |
Peter Douglas Ward is a paleontologist and professor of Biology and of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington, Seattle, and has written popular science works for a general audience.
Ward's academic career has included teaching...
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| x John Hodgman |
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John Kellogg Hodgman (born June 3, 1971) is an American voice actor, author and humorist. In addition to his published written works, such as The Areas of My Expertise and More Information Than You Require, he is known for his personification of a...
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| x International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming |
ICALP, the International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming is an academic conference organized annually by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science and held in different locations around Europe. Like most theoretical...
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| x Dependable Systems and Networks |
The International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (or DSN) is an annual conference on topics related to dependable computer systems and reliable networks. It typically features a number of coordinated tracks, including the Dependable...
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| x RecentChangesCamp |
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RecentChangesCamp is an Open Space Technology format unconference focused on wikis. The conference is named after the "Recent changes" feature that is found in many wikis. RecentChangesCamp follows an unconference model of being free to participants...
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| x Otronicon |
Otronicon (Orlando Electronic Interactive Convention) is an electronic gaming and simulation conference. The first annual convention was held at the Orlando Science Center in Orlando, Florida, United States in January 2006. The fourth annual event...
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| x Ohio LinuxFest |
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The Ohio LinuxFest is an annual technology conference and expo held in Columbus, Ohio. The event is dedicated to discussion and development of the Linux operating system and other open source software projects. During the event, conference attendees...
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| x Shelter Island Conference |
The first Shelter Island Conference on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics was held from June 2-4, 1947 at the Ram's Head Inn in Shelter Island, New York. The most famous participant, J. Robert Oppenheimer, deemed it the most successful scientific...
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| x Yet Another Perl Conference |
Yet Another Perl Conference, usually given as the abbreviation YAPC, is a series of conferences discussing the Perl computer programming language, usually organised under the auspices of The Perl Foundation and Yet Another Society, a "non-profit...
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| x KansasFest |
KansasFest (also known as KFest) is an annual event for Apple II computer enthusiasts. Held every July at Rockhurst University of Kansas City, Missouri, KansasFest typically lasts five days and features presentations from Apple II experts and...
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| x South by Southwest |
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South by Southwest (SXSW) is a set of interactive, film, and music festivals and conferences that take place every spring in Austin, Texas. SXSW first began in 1987 and is centered on the downtown Austin Convention Center. Each of the three parts...
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| x Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference |
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The Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference (or CFP, or the Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy) is an annual academic conference held in the USA or Canada about the intersection of computer technology, freedom, and privacy issues. The...
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| x Emerging Technology Conference |
The O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (not to be confused with the MIT Emerging Technologies Conference) is O'Reilly Media's premier conference about the new technologies that are on the O'Reilly Radar. O'Reilly defines its core business not...
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| x HostingCon |
HostingCon is a trade show and computer conference for professionals in the web hosting, software as a service and hosted services industries. It is the largest event of its kind in the world, bringing together industry professionals to learn about...
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| x International Conference on Functional Programming |
The International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP) is an annual academic conference in the field of computer science sponsored by the ACM SIGPLAN, in association with IFIP Working Group 2.8 (Functional Programming). The conference focuses...
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| x International Conference on Visual Information Engineering |
The International Conference on Visual Information Engineering (VIE) conference series is a successor to IEE's (Institution of Electrical Engineers) IPA conference series on Image Processing and its Applications. These are broad spectrum conferences...
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| x International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning |
International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR) is a series of conferences on the topics of automated reasoning, automated deduction, and related fields. It is organized semi-regularly as a merger of other meetings. IJCAR replaces...
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| x Paul W. K. Rothemund |
Paul W.K. Rothemund is a senior research fellow at the Computation and Neural Systems department at Caltech. He has become known in the fields of DNA nanotechnology and synthetic biology for his pioneering work with DNA origami. Rothemund is a 2007...
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| x COMPUTEX |
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COMPUTEX Taipei, or Taipei International Information Technology Show (traditional Chinese: 台北國際電腦展), is a computer expo held annually at the Taipei World Trade Center in Taipei, Taiwan, and now, one of the largest computer and technology fair in the...
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