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updated 2010.08.30
16 September Meeting Details
We'll meet Thursday, 16 September, 7:30pm, upstairs at Brillobox.
Jonas Loh - Jonas works in the fields of interaction design, generative design
and speculative design on research prototypes for future interactive
systems, applications and products and parallel realities. His work
deals with past, recent and future technologies and (anti-) social
objects in which we reflect ourselves and our complex human desires.
He holds a B.A. in interface design from the University of Applied
Science in Potsdam, Germany. He is currently an interaction designer
and developer at Disney Research, Pittsburgh, in between winter
graduate studies at the Royal College of Arts in Designing
Interactions.
Derek Lomas - Derek is a PhD student in the Human-Computer Interactions
Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where he is researching the
underpinnings of fun and learning within commercial video games and
helping to develop new design processes for building effective
computer-aided learning games. Lomas is a co-founder of the Playpower
Foundation, which recently received support from the MacArthur
Foundation to further its goals of building affordable, effective and
fun learning games to improve education around the world. Lomas
received his Master of Fine Arts degree in Visual Arts from UC San
Diego and his BA in Cognitive Science from Yale University.
Finally, we'll have a special 5 minute follow up presentation from previous dobktopgh speaker Ben Peoples.
The Gory Details
Dorkbot pittsburgh meets upstairs at Brillobox on a regular basis. dorkbotpgh is open to the public, all-ages, and admission is always free.
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.
Fall 2010 dates!
The Fall, 2010 dorkbotpgh dates are:
- 21 October
- 18 November
- 9 December
As always, we'll meet from 7:30pm until 9:00pm.
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.
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.
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