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My contribution:
Primarily I will be working on the groupsATstanford project, especially the group intranet portion, with the goal to transfer knowledge of the “elder statesmen” to the group as a whole.
How to grow/learn:
I hope to use the design process to learn connections between different parts of design and team projects, and to learn how to […]

What do you want to contribute?
My 2 cents and a few hours from the big ol’ bag of free time. Finish some last remaining Blender action items, strip a few IKEA screws, install Roble, hack the planet, get E@S to the point that people are tatooing its logo on their most modest body parts.
How do […]

ISIS Thoughts

20Jan04

I know I haven’t been around much recently and it probably won’t get better as my thesis picks up but:
– What do you want to contribute?
I would like to finally create some momentum around my ideas and goals. Specifically these include:
Getting started on observations of user interaction/helping in any way I can
Helping to develop […]

– What do you want to contribute?
I really want to help CONNECT ISIS with individual students, groups, and the general Stanford community by helping to PACKAGE and MARKET ISIS projects.
*I want students to feel more connected to the Events @ Stanford System. I’d really would to work with ISIS team members and University Communications on […]

– What do you want to contribute?
This Winter I would like to continue to safeguard our growing network of screen drivers from malicious attacks on the outside as well as provide each node the leanest and cleanest distributions possible.
By working with others on the Production Team, I would like to setup the file sharing system […]

Continuing on Phil’s Howard Dean theme, CNN has a great article on how many things in society are now built from the “bottom up”. As much as possible, let’s let our users do our work for us!
Smart companies are already embracing this: Motorcycle maker Ducati is posting specs for several new prototype motorcycles online and […]

Alumni Magazine

06Jan04

Nice article in the Alumni Magazine, guys! Check it out on page 21, right above the picture of the couple making out at Full Moon on the Quad.

Last year some of us went up to Macworld in San Francisco and had a good time. This year’s event is next week Tuesday through Friday, and you can still get tickets for the exhibit floor (i.e. no tutorial classes, etc.). That’s the fun part, anyway.
I’m hoping to go on Wednesday or Friday, taking the […]

…since the retail stores are his domain. Check out the line outside the first Apple store in Tokyo, which goes for block after block, at least a mile long.
Can we get that for the Blender opening?

Ok, not exactly…but he does have a phenomenal speech from the new Library of Alexandria. His premise is that the emergence of a new medium (or type of “memory”, in this case “vegetal”) does not always make the old type obsolete. We’ve concentrated on deprecating flyers; but instead we must concentrate on what the technological […]


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