I was interviewed on BBC Radio 5 about the upcoming BIL Conferences – BIL2010 in February and BIL:UK in July.
Busy Busy Busy
on January 25, 2008 with 0 comments
I’m feeling a little overwhelmed at the moment. Everything was working out great over Christmas break, but now that school has started up I feel like I’m doing a little too much. There’s just so many interesting opportunities I want to take advantage of, but I’m learning to restrain myself. Just this week I had [...]
Announcing BIL
on January 14, 2008 with 1 Comment
BIL is an open, self-organizing, and emergent science and technology conference. The best way to describe it is that BIL is to TED what BarCamp is to FooCamp. Find out more on the website: http://bilconference.com How did it get started? Cody and I wanted to go out to Monterey while TED was going on to [...]
Amazon at Refresh BCS
on September 10, 2007 with 0 comments
This Thursday we’ll be having Amazon come and talk about their Web Services. If you’re a developer or interested in building scalable web applications, you don’t want to miss this. We’re doing it at Mays Business School, Room 182, 7 P.M. on Thursday. Seating is limited to about 70 people so get there early if [...]
Refresh BCS – Google
on June 27, 2007 with 4 Comments
(more photos from me, or all photos of refreshbcs) Tonight we had the biggest Refresh BCS ever. About 150 people came to Downtown Bryan to hear Noman Munif from Google discuss their different products. It was amazing to see so many people in Bryan/College Station interested in new technology. We’re definitely putting B/CS on the [...]
Discussion of Patents
on June 13, 2007 with 0 comments
Quick reminder, we’ll be having our monthly meetup tonight. Topic is Service Oriented Architecture: A Mashup Culture. As always, it’s free and open to anyone. Details here. Also, today I had a chance to meet with Steve Bourque, owner of Bourque Data Systems (more photos here) Bourque Data Systems is the 37signals of the railroad [...]
Kelly Williams
on June 6, 2007 with 0 comments
(more photos) I got a chance to meet with Kelly Williams, Director of Milestone Venture Group, after he talked to a class this morning. His talk was much more interesting than most I’ve seen because he used Q&A throughout – as opposed to the more common hour-long lecture. He’s working in private equity, but the [...]
June Refresh
on June 3, 2007 with 0 comments
(from photo shoot for 372 Media and Activist Apparel, more here) Our next Refresh BCS is June 13, and it’s titled “Service Oriented Architecture: A Mashup Culture:” Ben Floyd (Texas A&M) will be talking about the move to Service Oriented Architecture, and software as a service. Mashups are becoming very popular in high tech society [...]
Refresh BCS – Design is…
on May 9, 2007 with 1 Comment
(more photos here) Roby gave a great presentation tonight titled “Design is…” I’ve been a graphic designer for about 6 years now, and Roby’s presentation put into words a lot of things that I always just felt were right. Like the four basic principles of CRAP: Contrast Repetition Alignment Proximity I can usually recognize when [...]
