scifoo06 – Made by Mikal

Nice write up of sci foo 06

Post author:mikal
Post published:September 12, 2006
Post category:Conference

Forbes has a nice write up of Sci Foo 06: Many of the SciFoo "campers" were the people that other conferences are built around: Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people ) and inventor of Berkeley UNIX; Danny Hillis, co-founder of Thinking Machines, one of the first massively parallel supercomputers; Esther Dyson, long-time technology pundit and now venture capitalist; the Google duo, Larry and Sergey, along with their new compatriot, Larry Brilliant, who helped squash smallpox and is now running the billion-dollar Google Foundation; and Donald Hopkins, who directs health programs at the Carter Center and is leading the fight to eradicate guinea worm disease.

I don’t think of myself as photogenic

Post author:mikal
Post published:August 14, 2006
Post category:Conference

This is the least worst photo of me take recently. A free sample: Mikal at SciFoo

Nature’s write up of SciFoo day one

Post author:mikal
Post published:August 14, 2006
Post category:Link

By the time I got to the SciFoo venue at the Googleplex yesterday evening, it was already swarming with other great people, most of whom I knew only by name and reputation. After some food, beer and chat in the evening sun, the event proper kicked off with a brief introduction by Tim O'Reilly and me, some very brief (3 words each) self-introductions from the other 200-or-so attendees. Then one of the most fun parts of any Foo Camp: writing the agenda. Three huge bright white boards were soon littered with pen marks describing proposed sessions. http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nascent/2006/08/scifoo_friday.html

SciFoo 2006

Post author:mikal
Post published:August 13, 2006
Post category:Conference

The first Science Foo camp is being hosted by O'Reilly, Nature Magazine, and Google. I'm going and I am excited like other people.