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updated 2010.02.07
dorkbotpgh: 7:30pm, Thursday, 25 March, 2010
Ben Peoples: Ben is an artist, theatre consultant, tinker, and all-around geek. After graduating from the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama in 2002, he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he began working as an architectural consultant, designing theatres and performing arts facilities. While living in San Francisco, he became involved in the community of Kite Aerial Photographers there and began building and flying kite camera rigs. After returning to Pittsburgh last year, Ben discovered that the winds here are not steady or predictable enough for kite photography. His efforts to solve this problem led him to his next aerial photography endeavor: the development of small UAVs, which he plans to use to aerially document historic industrial sites around Southwestern PA.
Solomon Bisker: Solomon is a student at Carnegie Mellon, where he is pursuing a
Masters of Tangible of Interaction Design. The Masters of Tangible
Interaction Design (MTID) is a brand new interdisciplinary offering at
Carnegie Mellon University which focuses on the design and making of
interactive objects and environments. MTID is hosted by the CMU School
of Architecture and encompasses faculty across the university.
Before that, Solomon worked as an interaction designer at Cambridge Systematics, consulting with federal and state transportation agencies
to explore how their processes and public interactions could be
improved by technology. Before THAT, he conducted research into mobile
barcode interaction design in crowds and public spaces with MIT's
Mobile Experience Lab, part of the MIT Design Lab. He has a BS and M.Eng in Computer Science from MIT.
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.
updated 2009.11.01
Future dates
Speakers aren't confirmed for these dates, but we have reserverations at Brillobox.
- Thursday, March 25
- Thursday, April 22
We'll be announcing speakers on the dorkbotpgh-announce list and our dorkbotpgh twitter feed. And in case you need some unmoderated, hot nerd action, there's dorkbotpgh-blabber ready and waiting.
posted 2009.04.15
Mailing Lists, RSS Feeds, and twitter
The dorkbot pittsburgh mailing lists are:
We're on twitter as dorkbotpgh, posting pointers to interesting things related to pittsburgh and the dorkbot mindset.
Subscribe to the RSS feed for news and event listings or the podcast feed to see video of any meeting you might have missed.
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.
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