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updated 2011.11.12
dorkbot pittsburgh's next meeting:
7:30pm, Thursday, 17 November, 2011
Munehiko Sato: Munehiko is a PhD student researching human computer
interaction at Cyber Interface Lab, the University of Tokyo. He has
been working on multimedia technology for site-specific installations
with embedded large displays. He holds a B.E. and M.S. in Information
Science and Technology from Univ. of Tokyo and also studied computer
science at Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. Mune is
currently researching on new sensing technology for interaction at
Disney Research Pittsburgh. Munehiko will present some of his existing and new works.
Mark Barlow: Mark has designed and/or installed over a megawatt of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. His contributions to solar PV installations can be seen aside the hills of the Ohio River valley, atop a city skyscraper of downtown Pittsburgh, and among the distant lands of Nicaragua and Greece. He currently volunteers his time to the local Pittsburgh Engineers Without Borders (EWB) chapter, assisting with water and energy projects located in Ecuador and India.
A long time student of Nikola Tesla's work and writings, Mark is especially interested in Tesla's ideas regarding energy production and transmission. A Tesla enthusiast, Mark built his first Tesla coil while in high school and has constructed half a dozen coils over the years. These coils vary in shape and construction with their output voltages ranging from a few kilovolts to megavolts.
About dorkbot pittsburgh
dorkbot pittsburgh is open to the public, non-smoking, all-ages, and admission is free. We meet upstairs at Brillobox, vegetarian dinner and alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks are available.
If you'd like to speak at dorkbot, if you know someone you'd like to see speak, or if there's a topic you'd like to learn more about, please let us know.
Brillobox is donating space and resources for the meeting, so consider staying after for drink or showing up before for an early dinner to thank them for their support. Brillobox is a non-smoking bar and dorkbot pittsburgh is proud to be a non-smoking event.
Getting to Brillobox
Brillobox is located at 4104 Penn Ave (at Main) in the Bloomfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh, PA.
If you're driving, here's a map.
posted 2009.04.15
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