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
profitmore 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)