Kevin Moloney, a 27-year veteran of photojournalism who has spent 18 years as an educator at CU, will explore how disruptive technologies have impacted photography’s almost 200-year history. How have technological advances changed the meaning of the photographic image, ideas of professionalism and authorship , and photography’s role in society? Moloney holds a master’s degree in digital media studies from the University of Denver and is currently a PhD candidate at CU-Boulder’s ATLAS Institute. His writing and photography have been published internationally.
4 p.m. Monday, February 23
Northern Lights
Featuring composers Kaija Saariaho and Osvaldo Golijov
Presented in part by the Cultural Events Board and the Colorado New Music Ensemble. More…
ATLAS Black Box theater
Friday & Saturday, Jan. 30-31, 8 p.m. (Pre-concert talk: 7:30 p.m.)
Entrepreneurs Unplugged features NCWIT’s Lucy Sanders
Silicon Flatirons and ATLAS moderators Brad Feld and Jill Dupré welcome Lucy Sanders, co-founder and CEO of the National Center for Women in IT (NCWIT). Join us for discussion of entrepreneurship and leadership as Sanders shares her experiences as accomplished computer scientist and technology executive. She will discuss the career path that led her to co-found and lead NCWIT, a national organization inspiring the next generation of young women to careers in computer science.
6 p.m. Wednesday, January 28
The Launch of a New Social Network, Ello
Join Ello co-founders Paul Budnitz, Todd Berger and Lucian Föhr as they discuss their journey to the anti-Facebook! Last year a new social network busted onto the scene and toppled the status quo. Meet the team that did it! Ello co-founders, including entrepreneur Paul Budnitz and Boulder-based designers Todd Berger and Lucian Föhr, will discuss their new venture and how it is redefining privacy and digital communities.
4 p.m. Monday, Jan. 26, ATLAS 100, Cofrin Auditorium, 1st floor
Revi Sterling
ICTD: How technology is changing humanitarian work
See a video of this talk.
Learn about the tremendous changes, opportunities and trends in
Information and Communication Technology for Development (MS-ICTD).
• Which development efforts show the most promise for changing lives and livelihoods?
• What communities, groups or regions are still missing out on the benefits of technology?
• Where are we making progress to address these gaps?
The speaker, Revi Sterling, is the founding director of the ATLAS practitioner-based
ICTD track, the only program of its kind in the United States.
Previously, Sterling served as a software engineer and program manager at Microsoft,
where she also spearheaded the corporation’s efforts in gender equity in computing.
She currently works with graduate students on field projects in Africa, India, South
America and the United States.
Sterling is the distinguished recipient of the national 2012 Anita Borg Women of Vision
ABIE Award for Social Impact.
4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 17, ATLAS 100
Following the talk, attend a reception celebrating the 5th anniversary of the ATLAS Master’s Program and the ICTD track.
Really, Why Are There Fewer Women in Tech? Mythbusting and How to Shift the Status Quo
Look around your computing and engineering classes, your hi-tech startups and your tech departments. Chances are you will see very few women.
Wendy DuBow will share why many common explanations for the lack of women in techology are not true. Learn what research points to as key factors. Get a deeper understanding of the societal forces at work, information to dispel common myths, plus techniques you can use to help shift the status quo.
DuBow is a Senior Research Scientist at the National Center for Women & Technology, NCWIT.org. Their gender diversity efforts help increase the participation of girls and women in computing.
4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 10, ATLAS 100
ATLAS Conversations: Education, Innovation & Technology
Explore the issues, hurdles and opportunities of technology, education and the digital age. The panel will feature graduate students from the ATLAS Technology, Media and Society Ph.D. program and will be moderated by Mark D. Gross, Director of the ATLAS Institute.
The ATLAS Ph.D. student panelists include:
Katherine Goodman
focuses on STEM learning to improve
students’ creative problem-solving skills.
Kevin Moloney
researches media ecology, networked narrative
and transmedia storytelling in journalism.
Jackie Cameron
explores novel uses of technology to engage
students in democratic, creative practices.
Zack Jacobson-Weaver
investigates Hacker culture as
a public education model.
4-5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 24, ATLAS 100, Cofrin Auditorium
Documentary Film Screening:
The Internet’s Own Boy with Reception and Panel Discussion
See the story of the life and tragic death of Aaron Swartz, internet prodigy/activist
Panel Discussion on Civil Liberties, Open Source Software and Technology with Panelists:
– Alicia Gibb, Executive Director, Open Source Hardware Association and CU ATLAS Instructor
– Paul Ohm, CU Law, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
– Blake Reid, CU Law Professor
– Michael Skirpan, CU Ph.D. Student, Computer Science
Aaron Swartz, programming prodigy, helped create the Web feed format RSS, technology that helps make Web content freely available.
In 2011, he was prosecuted for cyber-crimes – accused of illegally downloading literary and scientific journals at M.I.T. In 2013, at the age of 26, Aaron Swartz committed suicide.
In the wake of his death, questions arise. To what extent shall we have unrestricted access to the Internet? How shall the law protect us online? When is a prosecution overreaching?
See an interview with the film’s director, Brian Knappenberger. Read about computer crime law reform.
Co-sponsors: ATLAS Institute, Silicon Flatirons Student Group and the Samuelson-Glushko Technology Law and Policy Clinic (TLPC); photo credit: Sage Ross, license: CC BY-SA 2.0
5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 20, ATLAS 100, Cofrin Auditorium, first floor
Experience Design (UX): How do we build what people love?
When designing or building a new product, how deeply do you consider the behaviors of your user?
What emotions do they experience when holding your product? How do we build in more of what users and customers love? That’s what experience design (UX) is about: creating what people love.
Brian Baker began his career leading the number-one usability firm in San Francisco in the 1990’s.
Today, he serves as the Managing Partner of the experience design and product development
company First User Group in Boulder.
4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 13, ATLAS 100
How User Generated Content (UGC) can Drive Sales and Build Strong Brands
Explore the creative, effective use of UGC in a top retailer’s eCommerce marketing strategy.
Launched in 2013, Free People’s fully shoppable iOS mobile app includes a program called FP Me, a social network that allows customers to share inspiration and styling photos, view an Instagram-like gallery and interact in numerous ways. Jed Paulson will discuss the role of the app in launching a social engagement program, as well as the effects of the FP Me program on the brand and its customers.
Paulson is a CU alum and Director of Marketing & eCommerce for Free People, a women’s specialty apparel and accessories retailer within the Urban Outfitters Inc. portfolio. He joined Free People in 2010 and previously held technology and marketing leadership roles at eBay and Accenture.
4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 6, ATLAS 100
Google: Creating a Culture of Innovation
How do we create environments that encourage creativity and innovation?
Michele Weslander-Quaid will discuss Google’s culture of innovation and creativity as well as the successful approaches to complex issues that come when work environments encourage collaboration and interdisciplinary teams. She will share insights and recommendations drawing from more than 20 years of leading change and innovation in both industry and government.
Weslander-Quaid is Google’s Chief Technology Officer (Public Sector) and Innovation Evangelist. Before joining Google, her work included 10 years in industry as an image scientist and chief engineer. She also served in the U.S. government in various leadership roles. Read more of her bio and an Entrepreneur Magazine article that discusses her accomplishments.
4 p.m. Monday, Sept. 22, ATLAS 100
Computational Thinking and Thinking about Computing
Jeannette M. Wing is corporate vice president at Microsoft Research. She has been on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University since 1985, where she twice served as head of the Computer Science Department.
She was the assistant director of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate at the National Science Foundation.
Wing received her SB, SM and PhD degrees from the Massachussetts Institute of Technology.
4-5 p.m. Thursday, April 17, downstairs ATLAS Black Box theater, lowest basement level, B2
The Integration of Art & Science
Ruth West is an interdisciplinary media artist/researcher working with emerging technologies. She envisions a future in which art/science integration allows us to open new portals of imagination, knowledge and communication across cultures. Her work has been presented or featured in SIGGRAPH, WIRED Magazine’s NextFest, UCLA Fowler Museum, CAA, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, the American Journal of Human Genetics, Genomics, Leonardo, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, NPR’s The Connection, NY Times, Genome News Network, AMINIMA and Artweek. Learn more about Ruth West.
4 p.m. Monday, April 14, ATLAS 100
Drones, War & Privacy
In the words of the Harper’s magazine art director Stacey D. Clarkson (also a CU alumna):
“Tomas’ photo essay is 16 pages long—the longest in our history—and explores questions of domestic and foreign drone policy in an elegant and creative way.
Tomas van Houtryve made the work by attaching his camera to a drone he bought on Amazon and photographing landscapes across the US. As he explains, the technology for drone photography is ahead of the laws on it….so he has created this work in a moment when laws about drone usage are being drafted. The project is timely and forward-thinking.” A text portion of the Harper’s Magazine article is available here.
4:15 to 5:30 p.m. Monday, April 7, ATLAS 100
Ann Mei Chang – Information Communications Technology for Development: Oasis or Mirage?
Ann Mei Chang, an eight-year senior engineering veteran of Google, spoke on information communications technology for development (ICT4D): policy, practice, and practicalities, during an ATLAS Speaker Series presentation on March 31. As chief innovation officer at Mercy Corps, she builds highly scalable social enterprises and leverages mobile/internet to improve the lives of the poor. Previously, at the U.S. Department of State, she served as the senior advisor for Women and Technology in the Secretary’s Office of Global Women’s Issues.
There, she helped bridge the gender gap in access to mobile phones and the Internet, leveraging technology in improving the lives of female populations in developing countries and increasing the representation of women in the technology sector. At Google, she oversaw 20x growth of Google’s mobile business in just three years, delivering over $1B in annualized revenues.
For a video of her presentation, click here.
Making Data Beautifully Meaningful
Working at the intersection of science, art and design, Jer Thorp stretches the possibilities of infographics. He will speak about data visualization, information design and opportunities to make data more useful, meaningful and accessible. How do we dig through our increasingly vast terrain of data? How do we put data in a human context? How can data build empathy?
He is the co-founder of the Office for Creative Research and an adjunct professor at New York University’s ITP program.
From 2010 to 2012, he was the data artist in residence at the New York Times R&D Group. Learn more.
4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 19, ATLAS 100
For a video of his presentation, click here.