Presentation by Sheelagh Carpendale, 3rd April from 12:30- 1:30pm PST Dr. Carpendale is a professor in Computing Science at Simon Fraser University, where she holds an NSERC/SMART Industrial Research Chair in Interactive Technologies. She was previously a professor at University of Calgary, where she held a Canada Research Chair in Information Visualization and an NSERC/AITF/SMART […]
Presentation by Jon Corbett, 13th March from 12:30- 1:30pm PDT Dr. Corbett received his BFA at the University of Alberta, and MFA and Ph.D., at UBC Okanagan. During his studies, he developed his career as an application developer, focussing on centralized and de-centralized large-scale data repository and logistics web portals for UPS. Through his Ph.D., […]
"Social Media as a Failed Free Expression Experiment" Presentation by Peter Ives, 6th March from 12:30- 1:30pm PDT The talk will argue that “free speech” controversies are increasingly unresolvable not because people have differing commitments to the principle of free speech, but because they have incompatible underlying rationales for why speech should be free. The […]