Kevin J. Trammell
cambridge, ma
- Gender: Male
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- Member since: 2007-02-22 00:00:00
- Last log-in: 2007-10-26 00:00:00
- Events: 10
Events:
Zoroaster
Where: The Middle East
Date: 2008-05-26 20:00:00
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Brooklyn-based doom quintet Bloody Panda is a strange animal. A hybrid of experimental atmospherics and cold, evil metal, they're equally at home opening for Soilent Green and playing with local avant-folk acts. Bloody Panda has been turning heads since 2003 with its live show - an intense, theatrical experience in which band members perform in executioner's hoods. However, the nucleus of this dirge is vocalist Yoshiko Ohara, whose deep and sorrowful chants belie her diminutive stature.
Making Sense on Small Screens
Where: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: 2007-07-28 13:30:00
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Speaker: Patrick Baudisch , Microsoft Research Date: Friday, July 28 2006 Time: 1:30PM to 2:30PM Refreshments: 1:15PM Location: Star Seminar Room (32-D463) Host: Rob Miller, MIT CSAIL Contact: Rob Miller, x46028, rcm@mit.edu Relevant URL: Today’s ‘smart’ cell phones are designed to allow users to perform a set of relatively simple tasks, such as reproducing driving directions or recalling bookmarked websites. More demanding variants of the same activities, such as route planning or the interactive exploration of the web have received only limited or no support. And why should they--it is more convenient for users to perform these activities on their PCs and to only upload the results to the device. This, of course, assumes that users have access to a PC. In most cases, however, this assumption is wrong. There are 1.5 billion cell phones worldwide, but only 400 million PCs. The majority of phone users live in 3rd world countries. For many of them the phone is the first and only digital device they own. In this talk I argue that these phones could be the opportunity to get access to the functionality of a networked computer and to participate in the digital life of the first world. I am addressing this scenario from a human-computer interaction perspective. How can we display complex documents on displays the size of a stamp? How can users interact with such documents? I am presenting a range of small-screen visualization techniques including ‘halo’ & ‘summary thumbnails' as well as my latest work on a input device called 'soap'--a new approach to interacting with very small devices. Speaker Bio: Patrick Baudisch is a research scientist in the field of human-computer interaction at the Adaptive Systems and Interaction Research Group at Microsoft Research, as well as an Affiliate Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Washington. His focus is on interaction techniques that help users interact with very large displays and visualization techniques that allow users to view large documents on small screen devices. While at Xerox PARC, Baudisch created focus plus context screens. While at Fraunhofer-IPSI and during his stay as a guest researcher at the GroupLens project at the University on Minnesota, Baudisch worked on user interfaces for information filtering systems. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. Slides: http://patrickbaudisch.com/publications/talks.html More information: http://patrickbaudisch.com/projects
Lez Zeppelin
Where: The Middle East
Date: 2007-08-04 19:00:00
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Lez Zeppelin, the New York City-based all-girl, all-Zeppelin quartet, is set to release its self-titled debut album on July 10, 2007, with a nationwide and European tour planned in support of the new record. Since forming in 2004, Lez Zeppelin has gained unanimous critical acclaim as one of the most exciting live acts around, becoming the first female rock act to pay homage to Led Zeppelin and to garner rave reviews across the board. The album was recorded with legendary producer/engineer Eddie Kramer, best known for his work with Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, and KISS; and was mastered by George Marino, who with Jimmy Page digitally remastered all of the original Led Zeppelin recordings. The album, released on Emanation Records, will be distributed by Redeye Distribution. Lez Zeppelin stays true to the musically audacious spirit of the original, delivering the legendary rock band's blistering arrangements and monstrous sound note-for-note at sold-out shows across the country. The thing that sets them apart, however, is the seamless and unique way Lez Zeppelin inject their gender-bending performance into the original material.
Magnolia Electric Company
Where: Middle East
Date: 2007-10-01 19:30:00
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Magnolia Electric Company plays the kind of rock you'd expect to hear in the '70s. The Watson Twins are Chandra and Leigh. The Kentucky-born singers weave a surprisingly eclectic and bold mix of soul, country and gospel.
The Konks
Where: TT the Bear's Place
Date: 2007-09-22 22:00:00
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The Konks' version of rockabilly may be crude, but the energy and the enthusiasm of the performance make a Konks concert a rollicking good time.
Tools For Tomorrow's CMO
Where: Forrester Research
Date: 2008-03-11 00:00:00
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Technology has changed the role of marketing through media fragmentation, channel innovation, and by driving new customer behaviors. Marketers need a new "marketing tool kit" to successfully lead today's marketing organization.
Bishop Allen
Where: The Middle East Downstairs
Date: 2008-05-15 20:00:00
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Headlining acts perform later than stated event time18 and over with positive i.d.