[Imcamericorps] Fwd: [IMC] 50 Years of Public Computing coming April 15/16

[Nicole Pion]

Anyone want to join me?  I registered to attend on Friday only.

Nicole

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From: The Graduate School of Alumni Relations and Advancement <
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Date: Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 10:30 AM
Subject: [IMC] 50 Years of Public Computing coming April 15/16
To: imc at ucimc.org


Next Thursday and Friday April 15/16, eleven remarkable local innovations in
public computing will be under the microscope.  Founders, innovators, early
users and scholars will talk about how they did it and what it means.



* PLATO (1960), special guest Don Bitzer

* Project Gutenberg (1971)

* Urbana Free Library on the Internet (1984)

* CCNet (1993)

* Prairienet (1994)

* U-C Independent Media Center (2000)

* C-U Wireless Network (2001)

* eToysIllinois (2004)

* I-LLINI Partnerships (2006)

* Assess As You Go (2009)

* Wolfram Alpha (2009), special guest Stephen Wolfram



We invented these here, on campus and off, north and south of Green Street,
in collaboration.  Now we're bringing all this experience together to use it
to point a way forward.



We're doing this conference when $7.2 billion in broadband investment in
communities is about to jump off, $30 million right here in C-U.  Because of
this, the nation is going to be experimenting with and implementing all
kinds of new technologies in local communities.  Quiet as it's kept, the
University of Illinois knows a lot about this.  Why leave the nation to
reinvent the wheel when we have done so much heavy lifting?



Join us at this free public event.  Pass the message.  Register today:



http://go.illinois.edu/50years -- now with full participant bios.







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Nicole Pion
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Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center

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