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

[Brian Duggan]

I'll go on Friday, too. Looks like a great program.

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Nicole Pion <nicole.pion at gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyone want to join me?  I registered to attend on Friday only.
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> Nicole
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> Date: Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 10:30 AM
> Subject: [IMC] 50 Years of Public Computing coming April 15/16
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> 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.
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> * PLATO (1960), special guest Don Bitzer
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> * Project Gutenberg (1971)
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> * Urbana Free Library on the Internet (1984)
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> * CCNet (1993)
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> * Prairienet (1994)
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> * U-C Independent Media Center (2000)
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> * C-U Wireless Network (2001)
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> * eToysIllinois (2004)
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> * I-LLINI Partnerships (2006)
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> * Assess As You Go (2009)
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> * Wolfram Alpha (2009), special guest Stephen Wolfram
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Join us at this free public event.  Pass the message.  Register today:
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> http://go.illinois.edu/50years -- now with full participant bios.
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