Communication

NASA Mentoring Program for Girls: NASA G.I.R.L.S (Giving Initiative and Relevance to Learning Science) is for girls (grades 5-8) and includes a virtual mentoring program using video chat programs to pair Women @NASA mentors with a young girl anywhere in the country. Applications accepted June 5 - July 2, 2014.

http://women.nasa.gov/nasagirls

**All information courtesy of NGCP's Earth & Space Sciences Events & Resources

Brainstorming Turing: Celebrating Alan Turing + 25 Years of AI and Society Journal

100 years have passed since Alan Turing was born and we celebrate this historically important individual together with many organizations around the world. We look to show his eccentric creativity in addition to reminding all of the huge contribution he made to computation and artificial intelligence. Short talks by computer / neuro / nano scientists and humanists are accompanied by artists inspired by Turing’s legacy and persona. Additionally, students from UCLA will participate with their ideas of how Turing informs and inspires their work and lives in this time when social networking, robotics and automatic brains are part of daily life.

2012 also marks 25 years since the establishment of AI & Society journal that owes its formation to Turing’s legacy. The Art | Sci center is partnering with this interdisciplinary publication to honor Turing and all those who have contributed over the years. A special issue based on the symposium is planned.

The entire event will be streaming live online at http://ctrl.cnsi.ucla.edu/streaming/art-sci/brainstorming-turing

Time:
12pm-7pm

Location: California NanoSystems Institute @ UCLA

Theodor Holm Nelson PhD (http://ted.hyperland.com<http://ted.hyperland.com/>)

Project Xanadu and The Internet Archive



This Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011, 3:00-5:00 p.m.

Charles E. Young Research Library (YRL) Main Conference Room (http://www.library.ucla.edu/pdf/libmap_091710.pdf)

Co-sponsored by: UCLA Department of Information Studies, Colloquium Series (http://is.gseis.ucla.edu<http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/>)

UCLA Library (http://www.library.ucla.edu<http://www.library.ucla.edu/>)

The computer world pretends to be finished, but never will be.  In fact it simulates the past: computers for secretaries, as designed by Xerox in the 1970s, have become our working world. Today's "computer documents" (.doc and .pdf) simulate paper and the fancy printing of long ago. The Web added trivial one-way jumps, allowing pogo-stick travel between pages.  But what of deeper connection?



We need deep, live documents of a very different kind for the interactive screen, as foreseen by Bush and Engelbart and others—for annotation and detailed discussion and scholarship, for organizing and decision-making, for lawmaking and litigation, and for entirely new forms of writing. Such profusely connected, living documents are still possible, but require a wholly different infrastructure.  We will show some of these alternatives.

Ted Nelson is an idealistic troublemaker who coined the word 'hypertext' in the sixties, and continues to fight for a completely different computer world.



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A reception and book signing will follow the colloquium.  Attendees are encouraged to bring their own copies to be signed.  Ted Nelson’s new book Possiplex: An Autobiography of Ted Nelson and recent bookGeeks Bearing Gifts are available for purchase through lulu.com<http://lulu.com/> (links provided below).  A few copies will also be available for purchase at the event.





Possiplex: An Autobiography of Ted Nelson (http://bit.ly/pNLV3e)