Benjamin D. Davis
boston, ma
- Gender: Male
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- Member since: 2007-04-04 00:00:00
- Last log-in: 2007-05-19 00:00:00
- Events: 14
Events:
David Copperfield
Where: Boston Opera House
Date: 2008-05-10 14:00:00
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This famous illusionist will make things disappear and then reappear right before your very eyes.
Boston Media Makers
Where: Sweet Finnish
Date: 2008-04-06 10:00:00
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Sunday April 6, 2008 Boston Media Makers meet at: Sweet Finnish 761 Centre Street Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts 02130 Mingling 10:00 - 10:30 Roundtable Discussion 10:30 - 12:00 Topics for the meeting: LIVE Twitter: We go around the table and talk about what we are doing, ask questions, present a show and tell. All within a 3 minute time limit. It’s fun. EVERYONE IS WELCOME! Bloggers, podcasters, audio, video, film, video, photo, PR, social media, business, entertainment, newbies...
Piebald, MC Chris, House of Fools
Where: The Middle East
Date: 2007-04-24 19:30:00
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18+ $13adv/$15dos – NOTE: 7:30 Doors – Tickets on Sale 3/9
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
The National and Doveman
Where: Roxy
Date: 2007-10-06 18:00:00
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Show starts at 7pm All ages event Tickets: $18.00 General Admission http://www.myspace.com/doveman http://www.myspace.com/thenational
Fluttr Effect
Where: TT the Bear's Place
Date: 2007-04-14 21:00:00
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$10/21+ with Bad Jaime, Laura Younger & the Kin Fluttr Effect is a Boston-based thinkrock quintet that draws inspiration from a diverse range of sources – everything from Irish folk to goth to metal to classical to pop to trip hop to prog fuels this unconventional group, whose instrumentation includes electric cello and MIDI marimba in addition to guitar, drums, and vocals.
Patricia Marx - "Him Her Him Again the End of Him" Book Disc...
Where: Borders Back Bay
Date: 2008-01-16 18:00:00
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Patricia Marx is one of the finest comic writers of her time, as readers of The New Yorker and fans of Saturday Night Live already know. Her fiction debut is an endlessly entertaining comic novel about one woman's romantic fixation on her first boyfriend.
Drive-By Truckers
Where: Paradise
Date: 2008-03-22 21:00:00
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The Drive-By Truckers specialize in down-home Southern rock.
Boston Herald Workplace Diversity Job Fair
Where: Radisson Hotel Boston
Date: 2008-04-15 10:00:00
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The Boston Herald's Workplace Diversity Job Fair will be held Tuesday, April 15 at the Radisson Hotel Boston. Place yourself in front of Greater Boston's top companies looking to fill positions in areas including sales, business, medical technology and more! Look for a special pull-out section on Monday, April 14 for all the information you will need to make your job fair experience a success! Participating companies include: AAA Southern New England, Ajilon Finance, Boston Public Health Commission, Capital One, Frito-Lay, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Instrumentation Laboratory, Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, MBTA, New England Research Institutes, Inc., Northeast Security, Prudential Financial, Quincy Medical Center, Sovereign Bank, Securitas Security Services, Stop & Shop Supermarkets, The Home Depot, US Army, US Border Patrol, VA Boston Healthcare System and more.
Apocalyptica
Where: Paradise Rock Club
Date: 2008-05-02 21:00:00
Type:
Since 1996 and the release of their debut album 'Apocalyptica Plays Metallica By Four Cellos', Apocalyptica - graduates of the prestigious Sibelius Academy in Finland - have been developing a style that is tough to put a name to... 'Heavy Cello Mayhem'? 'Rock'n' Resin'?!... The possibilities are vast, but whatever the latest tag, the fact remains that never before had a group of classically-trained cellists, metal fans to a man, attempted to fuse together the seemingly disparate worlds of classical music & hard rock...of Prokofiev & Pantera... Shostakovich & Slayer... to seek out the middle ground between the mosh pit & the orchestra pit, the dinner jacket & the denim jacket, whilst being 100 per cent respectful to both camps.