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

[Nicole Pion]

Awesome - also, for those of you on the fence, it looks like you can get a
free lunch (vegetarian, option, too), incase the program alone does not
entice you!

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Brian Duggan <bcdugga at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > Nicole
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: The Graduate School of Alumni Relations and Advancement
> > <lis-dev at illinois.edu>
> > 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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> > AmeriCorps CTC VISTA
> > Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center
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Nicole Pion
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AmeriCorps CTC VISTA
Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center

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