Session Ideas 2011

This is where you can add your ideas for sessions. These ideas may be preliminary and incomplete, and can disappear at any time!

    • Gamin Like it's 1979: Why Interactive Fiction is Hot Again (sussman)
    • Use ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS to Talk to People in OTHER COUNTRIES -- ham radio and other modern miracles. (sussman)
    • The End of The Recording Industry: File Sharing & Other Disruptions. What's Next? (Trussell & Tolva)
    • Lucid Dreaming - Methods of Hacking the Subconscious Mind for Ideas and Problem Solving (McCarthy)
    • Low-Cost, Low-Tech Aerial Photography (McCarthy)
    • How to Play Xiang Qi - One of Chess's Grandparents (McCarthy)
    • Hacking Commercial EEG-Based Toys to Control Other Devices Via Brain Waves (McCarthy)
    • Hacking/Bending Musical and Video Circuits and Devices - Acquiring and Recycling Discarded Technology (Stephenson/McCarthy)
    • What is chiptune, and how to write your own chip music (ddribin)
    • How to start your own museum (Christen Carter).
    • Critical thinking and otherly musings in documentary radio* [Shapiro] *and/or podcasting, etc.
    • Hacking China III: Walking through a couple new electronics products I worked on in 2010 on a four figure budget (with show and tell) (Born)
    • Bending the Microsoft Kinect to your will (with a cool interactive music demo if my will is sufficiently strong) (pieps)
    • Lockpicking for fun and profit more fun (pieps)
    • Chemical Explosions, Crowds and Camera Crews: Adventures from Living 24/7 in Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry (McGroarty)
    • Turn ON the Draw: reclaiming drawing as a thinking tool (Agerbeck)
    • Social engineering and how not to sell your soul (or your future) to a VC
    • Intro to Wushu Ropedart (ancient chinese weapon) (pongpaet)
    • Behind the headlines: what are those Palantir Technologies people up to, anyway? (agesher)
    • Teaching Students how to be Hackers: See session notes from last year (Sotomayor)
    • If more women coded, the world would be a better place. Yes or No? (Bottigliero)
  • Sequenced tattoo murals, tattoo conventions and competitions, and the unexpected presence of computer science and engineering in Hell. (Solin)
  • "The Art & Science of Smoking Pigs" - Friday Evening Random Act of BBQ, Saturday Presentation (there may be rib tips :-) (Moshe Tamssot)