Hello futurists,

I received a flyer in my mailbox today announcing the following talk at the UCSC
science library, which looks quite interesting
and a relevant topic for the Santa Cruz Futurists.  As of today, we have not
scheduled a speaker for May, and it doesn't look
like we are going to.  This will be the first non-speaker month since the
inception of the club (aside from during the summers).
We've discussed this, and agreed that it's fine and we don't absolutely need
someone to come and lecture to us every month--it's
just a convenience to give us something to talk about.  We can either all get
together and discuss some topic without a speaker
(which is entirely in line with the original mission of our club) or we can let
it slide and wait till June.  Either way, I think
it would be good for some of us to go to this talk by Dr. Mangel, and if we want
we could even have aging (and the possibility of
anti-aging technologies) be the theme for this month.  Also, if there is enough
interest!
, we could all go out to eat afterwards or something.

Why We Age, What Makes Us Age, and What Can Be Done About It
http://library.ucsc.edu/science/synergy/

"Dr. Mangel will address the issue of why we age (or why we live as long as we
do) and will explain some fundamental concepts in
demography concerning lifespan. He will also explain why aging is the inevitable
outcome of natural selection and that, even so,
aging itself can evolve.

The mechanism of aging can be understood as the accumulation of damage to
molecules, cells, and tissues that express themselves
in mortality and declining physiological capacity. Anti-aging intervention takes
three possible routes: avoiding causes of
premature death, making various kinds of dietary changes, and applying
nanomedicine technologies to repair damage. Dr. Mangel
will explain why the effects of these interventions on human lifespan are not
clear."

Also, don't forget to go to Maker-Faire on the 19-20th!

Cheers,

--
Jeff L Jones <jeff@...>     "Nothing in life is to be feared.
UCSC Physics Dept, PhD student            It is only to be understood."
                                                              - Marie Curie
Santa Cruz Future Salon, Co-moderator
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scfuture

Tickets are now on sale for Yuri's Night Bay Area, to be held in Hangar 211 at NASA Ames Research Center, April 13, 2007. This unprecedented event will bring together thousands of people from the science, technology, music, art and dance communities in celebration of humanity's accomplishments in space.

Featuring a keynote talk by Anousheh Ansari, local and international music acts including Plaid, Telefon Tel Aviv and Bluetech will be woven through a schedule chok full of live demonstrations from astronomy, robotics, physics, engineering, and technology late into the night.

Celestial light performances and unique acrobatics will dazzle and entertain. Large scale sculpture, interactive multimedia installations,  and awe-inspiring NASA footage and documentaries will be displayed both in the hangar and outside on the adjoining tarmac.

Visit www.worldspaceparty.com for details on local hotels and ticket sales.  Get your tickets soon-- they are likely to sell out!

April 4, Wednesday, 7:00 PM @ Borders Bookstore, Santa Cruz.
The Santa Cruz Future Salon hosts Patrick McKercher on "Flying through
Human Knowledge"

Patrick McKercher, UCSC Lecturer and Project Manager of the "K-Web",
will peer into the digital future of education.  The K-Web is a
powerful, interactive and intuitive exploratory open source omnipedia
— a learning and teaching tool fostering multiple intelligences and
complex thinking in more systemic ways; it allows understanding
knowledge in context, generating new ideas, and exploring a universe
of data to discover how seemingly unrelated people, events and ideas
are connected across time and space.  Fans of author – historian James
Burke will recognize many of these people, events, and ideas.

More information: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scfuture/

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With TJ Rodgers as the keynote, this promises to be a very entertaining
banquet. Please help get this announcement out to all Silicon Valley
engineers.
  ~ Elise, SVEC Director, Banquet chair

Tickets at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/9497
Ticket cost: $85, Table of ten: $850

The Silicon Valley Engineering Council (SVEC) proudly presents its 2007
Silicon Valley Engineers Week Banquet on February 22, 2007. The SVEC
will honor several outstanding individuals for their remarkable
contributions by welcoming them into its Hall of Fame.  The banquet will
also feature a distinguished keynote speaker and award scholarships for
academic excellence.

Keynote: "Clean Energy" - Dr. T.J. Rodgers,
Founder, President and CEO, Cypress Semiconductor & Chairman, SunPower
"Solar energy is no longer a dream. The industry prevented [the need
for] a big power plant being built last year."  Hear what interesting
thoughts TJ has on this topic!

The distinguished Hall of Fame inductees will include - -

* Dr. Paul Baran, Chairman of NovoVentures
     Inventor of Digital Packet-Switching

* Dr. Bradford W. Parkinson, Professor Emeritus, Stanford
     Chief architect of GPS, Air Force NavStar GPS Joint Program Office

* Dr. James Spilker, Jr.,  Consulting Professor,
     Electrical Engineering & Aeronautics/Astronautics, Stanford
     Co-architect of GPS, Co-founder of  Stanford Telecommunications

Location: Hyatt Santa Clara http://santaclara.hyatt.com/
Tickets at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/9497

Agenda
5:30 PM Reception and No-Host Bar (Don't miss this terrific networking
opportunity!)
6:30 PM SVEC President's Welcome
6:45 PM Dinner with Friends
7:15 PM Recognition of Sponsors & Distinguished Guests
7:30 PM E-Week Presentation, Rick Peters, National E-Week Chair
7:45 PM Discover-E Presentation, David Levinson
8:00 PM Keynote, TJ Rodgers
8:30 PM Scholarship Presentation
8:45 PM SVEC Engineering Hall of Fame Induction
9:15 PM Close

Dinner includes a fresh green salad, seasonal vegetables, dessert,
coffee, and international teas plus a choice of Filet Mignon, Mahi Mahi
or Vegetable Wellington (dinner choices received after Friday Feb 16th
are not guaranteed).

We encourage you to help sponsor the SVEC and Engineers' Week 2007
* Platinum Sponsor ($15,000) includes three student scholarships and
special project support
* Gold Sponsor ($10,000) includes two student scholarships and special
project support
* Silver Sponsor ($5,000) includes one student scholarship and special
project support
* Bronze Sponsor ($2,500) includes special project support (Discover-E,
MathCounts and others)
* Blue Ribbon Sponsor ($1,000) includes special project support
* Display table only ($300)
All sponsorships include a display table at the reception.
For further sponsorship and banquet information call:  Elise Engelhardt
408-360-0669, e-mail: engelhardte@...

Silicon Valley Engineering Council
The Alliance for Engineering Leaders in Silicon Valley, SVEC is
dedicated, through a network of volunteers and local engineering
societies, to meeting the needs of the engineers of today and of
tomorrow.
(www.svec.org)

Robert Cormia's talk has been moved to 7:30. The location, Cowell 131,
is the same. Here is a detailed <a
href="http://cowell.ucsc.edu/cowell_map.html">map</a> of Cowell College.
-Nick Ernst

Robert Cormia, Professor @ Foothill College, presents:

Al Gore's Award Winning film 'An Inconvenient Truth' awakened America
that not only is global warming real, but climate change is here now.
See how individuals organizations can develop a Carbon Management
Strategy, emphasizing fuel switching, energy efficiency, trip
reduction / ridesharing, and investment in carbon offsets to achieve
significant reductions in CO2 emissions. Learn how we as individuals
can develop our own personal climate action plans, and how the
decisions and investments we make as individuals can collectively
achieve the reductions in GHGs that start us towards a carbon free future.

February 18, Sunday 7:00 pm @ Cowell 131, UCSC
Map: http://maps.ucsc.edu/cm1c.html
List: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/scfuture/

Megan Goddard, Geographic Information Specialist for Google Earth will
speak at our January 28 Future Salon:  "Google Earth: Your Backyard
and Beyond"

Have you ever used Google earth to zoom into your house and
neighborhood using imagery on Google Earth?  Would you like to learn
more about how to use Google Earth?  This presentation of Google Earth
just may open a whole new world for you - learn about how the United
Nations, Jane Goodall, National Geographic, and the European Space
Agency use Google Earth as a platform for sharing unique and
compelling datasets. .  The purpose of this demonstration is to
introduce  and investigate spatial content in Google Earth, explore
the concept of "geo-literacy", and discuss future directions in
digital cartography.

7:00 PM, Sunday, January 28. Basking Engineering 152, UC Santa Cruz

On December 8, a power blackout affecting several blocks of downtown
Santa Cruz closed Borders Bookstore and preempted our salon on
technological literacy.  We have rescheduled for one week later,
Friday, December 15, at 7:00 PM.  Our gratitude and apologies to those
who fought through the rain to find a dark store (especially to
Andrew, who drove two hours).

Please return to discuss what is it about technology that does not
change (Would you include "the more useful a technology, the greater
our dependence" as electrical blackouts demonstrate?).

At the December 8 Santa Cruz Future Salon, the author of "Technology Challenged" and director of nonprofit corporation KnowledgeContext, Miguel F. Aznar, will share stories about Hawaiian bobtail squid, North Korean radios, and nanotechnology to illustrate a strategy for understanding and evaluating any technology.  This strategy is the seed for a technological literacy curriculum that KnowledgeContext has been offering in a grassroots attempt to change how we teach technology.  This Salon presentation will provide a tool to promote critical thinking to help us guide technological change and welcome roundtable discussion of the issues and approaches.

7:00 PM, Friday December 8 @ Borders Bookstore Santa Cruz (1200 Pacific Ave, 95060).  More information at Santa Cruz Future Salon website: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/scfuture/.

I'm helping put on this event.  It's totally free (please RSVP though)
and has a very distinguished speaker - Dr. Bernard Widrow.  ~Elise

Silicon Valley Engineering Council
The Alliance for Engineering Leaders in the Silicon Valley www.svec.org

SVEC Open House
Tuesday, November 14, 2006, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Hosted at the headquarters of Ultratech, Inc.
2880 Junction Avenue, San Jose
Please RSVP http://svec2006openhouse.eventbrite.com

You are cordially invited to attend our annual open house when the 2007
SVEC Engineering Hall of Fame recipients will be announced.  The evening
includes a complimentary light buffet and engineering camaraderie.

Welcome Reception:  6:00pm-7:00pm
SVEC Open House:  7:00pm-9:00pm
Welcoming Remarks and Acknowledgements:
     Barbara Roberts, President, Silicon Valley Engineering Council  SVEC
Educational Outreach Programs Announcement of 2007 Silicon Valley
Engineering Hall of Fame Inductees

Keynote speaker: Dr. Bernard Widrow
     SVEC Engineering Hall of Fame 1999 recipient

"Cognitive Memory: Human and Machine"
Expand your understanding of human memory.  Hear about new advancements
in computer memory that will use artificial neural networks to simulate
how memory is stored in the human brain.

Bernard Widrow is Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford
University. His fields of teaching and research are signal processing,
neural networks, acoustics, and control systems. Before coming to
Stanford in 1959, he taught at MIT where he received the Doctor of
Science Degree in 1956. Dr. Widrow is the author of two books: "Adaptive
Signal Processing," and "Adaptive Inverse Control," both published by
Prentice-Hall. Each is the first of its kind, establishing new fields of
research and engineering that are being pursued worldwide by students,
faculty, and practicing engineers. Dr. Widrow is the inventor or
co-inventor of 17 patents. One of his inventions, an adaptive filter
based on the LMS (least mean square) algorithm, is used in almost all
the computer modems in the world, making high-speed digital
communications (such as the internet) possible. He is co-inventor of a
directional hearing aid that will enable many people with severe to
profound hearing loss to regain speech recognition and communication
ability. Dr. Widrow has started Cardinal Sound Labs to develop and
commercialize the technology.  He has been honored many times for his
research. The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE),
elected him a Fellow in 1976. In 1984, he received the IEEE Alexander
Graham Bell Medal. He was inducted into the National Academy of
Engineering in 1995. Dr. Widrow is currently supervising ten doctoral
students at Stanford. Over the years, more than sixty students have
completed their Ph.D.'s under his supervision. Many of his former
students have become founders and top scientists in Silicon Valley
companies. About ten have become university professors, four have gone
on to medical school and become MD's, and two have become Admirals in
the U. S. Navy.

The Silicon Valley Engineering Council gratefully acknowledges our Open
House Sponsors:
Ultratech, SEMI and the Pipe Trades Training Center

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This is an annoucement/reminder about our October Future Salon.  Since
our September one was slightly before school started, this is technically
the first one of the school year.  Come join us at Borders and find out
what we're all about.

Sunday October 22, 7pm at Borders bookstore in downtown Santa Cruz
(on Pacific Ave).

Our guest speaker this month is Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, and the title
is The End of Cyberspace.  As usual, he'll give his talk and then we
will have a related discussion afterwards.

So what does "the end of cyberspace" mean you ask?  Well, in Dr. Alex
Pang's words:
******************************************************************
The End of Cyberspace

Cyberspace is a "metaphor we live by," born two decades ago at the
intersection of computers, networks, interfaces, and culture. In this
talk, I argue that the concept of cyberspace, for all its rhetorical
power in the past, is doomed. As the Internet becomes more pervasive--
as it moves off desktops and screens and becomes embedded in things,
spaces, and minds--the rules that define the relationship between
information, places, and daily life will be rewritten, and cyberspace
will disappear.

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang is a Research Director and Blogger-In-Chief at
the Institute for the Future (IFTF), a Palo Alto-based think-tank.
Trained as an historian of science, he studies the coevolution of
technology and society.
******************************************************************

Hope to see you there,

--
Jeff L Jones <jeff@...>     "Nothing in life is to be feared.
UCSC Physics Dept, graduate student       It is only to be understood."
                                                             - Marie Curie

Sunday at 7

Enter your vote today!  A new poll has been created for the
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When (approximately) could you attend on-campus meetings and events Fall quarter
of 2006?

   o Sunday, 1:00pm
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Thanks!

After the last Future Salon, Nick brought up the idea of having a table
for our club, for incoming UCSC students to visit during the beginning
of Fall quarter.  I believe Miguel, Nick, Max, and I all agreed that
this Thursday would work the best to meet and plan how to carry this out.

So, unless there are any conflicts or objections, let's meet at Joe's
Pizza and Subs on UCSC campus this Thursday at 4pm.  Anyone who wishes
to become more involved in the club is highly encouraged to come.
Hopefully you've met at least one of us before, or can figure out who
we are (if not--we usually have at least one laptop out, and someone
jotting things down on a sheet of paper as we're talking, which might
help in identifying us.)  Please respond to this message if you want
to come and 4pm won't work... we can still change it.

Thanks once again to John Smart for giving a stimulating talk on
accelerating change on Friday night.

--
Jeff L Jones <jeff@...>     "Nothing in life is to be feared.
UCSC Physics Dept, graduate student       It is only to be understood."
                                                              - Marie Curie

Dear All,
My name is Sha LaBare and I'm a grad in the History of
Consciousness department where I work on science
fiction as a mode of awareness and production.  I'm
writing you to post a strange kind of "call for
papers" for a strange kind of project - see below.
Remain in light,
Sha Lar

XENOMORPH: ALIEN AGENCY (Xaa) provides an internet
home for innovative, experimental work on and in the
science fiction mode.  Sf is not only a genre, but
also a mode of awareness and production
particularly relevant in these First Days of the 21st
century.  In the
recent past, the sf genre has produced unprecedented
"sf fx" in the
able handminds of Gwyneth Jones, Ken Macleod, Octavia
E. Butler and
many others.  At the same time, sf has exploded beyond
the limits of
genre and begun to make waves in fields as disparate
as music, art,
critical theory, architecture, and politics.  Sf
theory, for example,
has left the confines of "SF Studies" per se and taken
new forms in
the work of Donna Haraway, Jean Baudrillard, and
Manuel Delanda.  SF
music and art, too, have produced exciting sf agents
like Sun Ra, Ebon
Fisher, and the Center for Tactical Magic.  Sf
technoscience should of course be very familiar to
futurists; the sf mode productions of K. Eric Drexler,
Hans Moravec, and Nicholas Negroponte spring to mind.
And, of course, the sf mode is wider still: Xaa aims
to bring these and other strands of sf mode activity
together, focusing especially on sf fx,
anthropocentrism, ecological ethics and alien agency,
among other
possible topics.  Neologistic by nature, Xaa actively
seeks new ways
of thinking, speaking, writing, worlding, and playing.


Submissions are open to any and all, in all fields,
disciplines, and media; an interest in thinking the
future before it gets too late is the only
requirement.  For our first edition, we are accepting
short texts (300 word maximum) and small widgets
(images, video, etc), with preference for the
experimental and creative.  The idea is to open up
questions that you don't know how to answer.

Deadline for First Edition: September 20, 02006.
contact: sfmode@...

ALSO: Xaa is looking for a web designer to collaborate
(for "free") on the look and feel of the site.  I can
and will do this myself if need be, but I'd rather
find some innovative web worker to collaborate with.


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