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Do you spend hours analyzing the moral philosophy of Watchmen, the multicultural occultism of Promethea, or what Lost Girls says about storytelling and human sexuality? Consider submitting a paper to an upcoming academic conference on the work of Alan Moore. More »
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Want to know why a car bomb leaves behind a unique signature in the damage it inflicts? You can learn that and more at O'Reilly's Etech Conference, starting today in San Jose. More »
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Well, pretty much every day in San Francisco is filled with scifi, tech and porn, but this weekend is special. Arse Elektronika, the notorious techno-porn event imported from pervvy Vienna, is starting tomorrow night with a bang. This year, the conference theme is "Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep?" I'll be a host for the opening night techno-porno award ceremony tomorrow at CELLSpace (doors at 7; show at 8). I'll be teaching you the dos and don'ts of science fiction sex — with video illustrations, of course. More »
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Every year, geeky idea factory O'Reilly puts on a great conference called Emerging Technology, fondly known as Etech. There you'll hear from scientists, engineers, futurists, investors, writers and artists about what's coming next for humans living in an increasingly high-tech world. The theme of this year's conference is "abundance and constraints," which could be interpreted a lot of ways — everything from creating sci/tech that works within environmental constraints, to building networks in places without power. And much more. The deadline to submit proposals and ideas to conference organizers is tomorrow at midnight. I'm on the planning committee for Etech this year, so I encourage all you visionaries, inventors, mad scientists, and sci/tech pundits to submit an idea to us! Etech takes place in March 2009, in Silicon Valley. [Submit to Etech!] More »
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Want to find out when your gadgets will start following you around, and how easy it will be for you to do "reality mining" to find your friends by tracking their cell signals on Google maps? Then head out to Burlingame, CA today and tomorrow for O'Reilly's annual Where 2.0 conference. I've been to this conference several years in a row, and it's always packed with weird futuristic technologies for tracking locations and creating awesome maps. Basically, it's about turning the real world into something you can access online in real time. Conference organizer Brady Forrest says, "I think that you can find a scifi angle in almost every segment of the conference." More »
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Now that the military is using autonomous surveillance/combat robots created by iRobot, the company behind the Roomba robot vacuum, a strange question emerges: What do we do if a robot commits a war crime? This isn't idle speculation. An automated anti-aircraft cannon's friendly fire killed nine soldiers in South Africa last year, and computer scientists speculate that as more weapons (and aircraft) are robot-controlled that we'll need to develop new definitions of war crimes. In fact, the possibility of robot war crimes is the subject of a panel at an upcoming conference at Stanford. More »
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