Can Hi-tech Hitchhiking Work? * 4:15PM, Wed April 22, 2009 in Gates B01

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: allison () stanford edu
Date: April 18, 2009 5:27:12 PM EDT
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Subject: [EE CS Colloq] Can Hi-tech Hitchhiking Work? * 4:15PM, Wed  
April 22, 2009 in Gates B01
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            Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium
                4:15PM, Wednesday, April 22, 2009
       HP Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B01
                  http://ee380.stanford.edu[1]


Topic:    Can Hi-tech Hitchhiking Work?

Speaker:  Jim Morris
         Carnegie Mellon University

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       | This is a special Earth Day[2] talk. Earth Day is      |
       | celebrated April 22 every year. Earth Day is intended  |
       | to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's  |
       |  environment.                                          |
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About the talk:

Cell phones and the web might breath life into this old form of
travel, but can it overcome the cult of the car? A lot of people
are trying to make it work, but many have failed in the past. See
bureau.sv.cmu.edu/~jhm/RideFriends.pdf[3] for the full story.

Slides:

There is no downloadable version of the slides for this talk
available at this time.

About the speaker:

Dr. James H. Morris is a Professor of the
Practice of Software and dean of the Silicon Valley Campus of
Carnegie Mellon University. He received a Bachelor's degree from
Carnegie Mellon, an MBA and Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT.
He taught at the University of California at Berkeley where he
developed some important underlying principles of programming
languages: inter-module protection and lazy evaluation. He was a
co-discoverer of the Knuth-Morris-Pratt string searching
algorithm. For ten years he worked the Xerox Palo Alto Research
Center where he was part of the team that developed the Alto
System, a precursor to today’s personal computers. From 1983 to
1988 he directed the Information Technology Center at Carnegie
Mellon, a joint project with IBM which developed a prototype
university computing system, Andrew. From 1992 to 2004 he served
as department head, then dean in the School of Computer Science.
He held the Herbert A. Simon Professorship of Human Computer
Interaction from 1997 to 2000. He has been the principal
investigator of several NSF and DARPA projects aimed at
computer-mediated communication. He is a founder of the MAYA
Design Group, a consulting firm specializing in interactive
product design. He also founded Carnegie Mellon’s Human Computer
Interaction Institute, Robot Hall of Fame, and the Silicon Valley
Campus.



Contact information:

Jim Morris
jim.morris () sv cmu edu[4]

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[ 1 ]    http://ee380.stanford.edu
[ 2 ]    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day
[ 3 ]    http://bureau.sv.cmu.edu/~jhm/RideFriends.pdf
[ 4 ]    "mailto:jim.morris () sv cmu edu

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