From the oogachaka baby to Nyan Cat, the graphics interchange format, better known as the GIF, has come a long way since the days of floppy discs. The modern-day GIF was introduced to the world 25 years ago by Steve Wilh…

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, , Fernando Alfonso III, Lindsey Weber

GPS has its limits. My students and I at the University of Texas Radionavigation Lab work to find them. For 20 years, GPS was so reliable it became navigation and timing crack for engineers. We all got addicted. We p…

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Todd Humphreys

The nation's space agency has embraced the use of social media to reach out, engaging new audiences in new ways and giving people behind-the-scenes access to areas rarely seen by the public. By using tweets, blog posts a…

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John Yembrick, Ron Garan

As an exploration of the intersection of art and technology, the panel will present and discuss several large-scale sculptures that strongly leverage various forms of engineering. Consisting of a mix of artists and engin…

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Heather Shaw, Jen Lewin, John Taylor, Maurice Conti

A new addition to the 2013 lineup, SXSW Home Rooms are where you get the most current information about all the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities for the day ahead. SXSW Home Room also provides a great …

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What happens when accidents become the building blocks of the art-making process? Glitches point toward new ways of seeing the world, an echo or document of the technology, politics and humans that co-produce them. Both …

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Alan Sondheim, Bishop Zareh, Jon Satrom, Jon Cates

Before Time’s Person of the Year was “You” – a corporate powerhouse was already putting “You” in control. Since 2006, PepsiCo has been at the forefront of crowdsourcing – letting fans produce the Doritos brand’s Super Bo…

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Jen Saenz, Kevin Knight, Shiv Singh

Space promises enormous opportunities to those who first explore it. Can we all be part of this endeavor? Will you be part of it? With the arrival of the crowd-sourcing and open-source movements, never before have hum…

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Anousheh Ansari, Christopher Gerty, Darlene Damm, Edward Wright

Back by popular demand! Building on last year’s packed Show & Smell showcase combining inspiring emerging technologies and sensory marketing, this hands-on crowd experience of leading edge technologies, continues to defi…

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David Polinchock, Kurt Karlenzig, Warren Kronberger

3D technologies of all forms are evolving at a rapid pace and quickly expanding its uses in the Fashion industry. This panel will show, not just discuss, how constant advancements in 3D is revamping the world of Fashion …

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Daniel Stillman, Kimberly Ovitz, Liz Bacelar, Mary Huang

This talk will show you how to brainstorm new ideas, products, campaigns, and services using a technology-first approach. In the past, you might have brainstormed using a blank canvas approach. While this can lead to go…

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Will Turnage

Once upon a time, our phone, the fridge and TV were distinct devices, manufactured in distinctly different environments. Not anymore. Today, our devices share technologies in an unprecedented manner. We can use our phone…

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Joe Weinman, Karen Bartleson , Oleg Logvinov, Wael Diab

As president of The University of Texas at Austin, Bill Powers has become a thought leader on the role of the research institution in our rapidly transitioning economy. He rejects the notion that large institutions stifl…

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Bill Powers

Everybody is talking about user experience design, but what does experience actually mean? And how can we work with experience in design? Experience is what we do and what we feel, together in a flow. It corresponds to …

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Daniel Rosenberg

The availability of open source libraries and frameworks has spawned rapid explorations in new expressional forms and has provided a common environment for collaboration between artists and creators. Further the wide ac…

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Daitio Manabe, Kaoru Sugano

Many people think of science as abstract and numerical. But most of science is remarkably visual. Design plays an important role in science communication, but it’s more than just creating pretty pictures. Joe Hanson (bio…

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, Jennifer Jongsma

There is beauty in the brain's electric, neural storm when it knows what you’re doing just isn’t good enough. Yet many people abhor criticism, direct conflict resolution, or a task that truly challenges their brains. Gen…

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Niki Weber

Nathan Martin is the CEO of innovation studio Deeplocal, best known for the creation of the Nike Chalkbot street painting robot seen at the Tour de France. Before working for brands, Nathan screamed in a touring metal ba…

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Nathan Martin

Human activity – good and bad, legal and criminal, ethical and unethical – has become increasingly bound up in data-driven systems. For organizations of all kinds – government, non-profit, businesses – discovering bad be…

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Greg Ebert, Ray Mooney

We are aging but are we aging well? There are currently 17,000 nursing homes in America, and the same number of reasons not to move into them. These facilities could be construed as little more than warehouses for the el…

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Hunter Tura, José Colucci, Matthias Hollwich, Sari Gilman

In a world where VCs often shy away from funding hardware inventions, entrepreneurs are finding new ways to ensure hardware innovation makes a comeback. Start-ups were afforded new flexibility in how they raise funds whe…

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Adam Ellsworth, Jesse Harrington Au, Mark Hatch, Mitzi Montoya

A new addition to the 2013 lineup, SXSW Home Rooms are where you get the most current information about all the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities for the day ahead. SXSW Home Room also provides a great …

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will be the most ambitious telescope ever constructed. Hubble’s tennis court-sized successor will be 100 times more powerful and orbit far beyond Earth’s Moon, where it will beam back im…

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Alberto Conti, Blake Marie Bullock, Charles Mountain, Jonathan Fay

Local Motors has pioneered how to achieve crowd-powered design and development of complex cyber-mechanical devices. In short, we have crowd-sourced the first production cars in the world. Further, we have pioneered new w…

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John Jay Rogers Jr.

Enough of caped crusaders, crazed criminals and post-apocalyptic kooks! Despite talk of graphic novels as a maturing, alternative art form, most of the genre is still dedicated to elementary entertainment...but that is c…

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John Boyer, Katie Pritchard

Poetry, stories, and speeches aren’t just what we read or what we hear - they're how we make meaning and celebrate history. Hundreds of thousands of spoken text audio files - including poetry readings, American Indian s…

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Paul Vinelli, Tanya Clement

People with disabilities are often confined to using assistive equipment that is ugly and badly designed for their needs. Wheelchairs, crutches, handrails, vehicles, cutlery - most things in life - are given no aestheti…

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Carrie Bishop, Dominic Campbell

Hacker journalism is going global. The Hacks/Hackers movement has spread around the world, and this panel will bring together organizers from Africa, South America, the Middle East and the U.S. to talk about how the jour…

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Burt Herman, Justin Arenstein, Mariano Blejman

People spend a lot of time thinking about their ideas. It’s impossible not to. Because ideas live in the same place they are born: inside our heads. In fact, the inside of the creative mind can feel like a sort of or…

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Arthur Jones, Starlee Kine

If technology is a pimp, our language is its favorite bitch. The tricks that our words are asked to turn on the streets of social media and online publishing are lauded in our dictionaries and style guides. Googling and …

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Gail Marie, Kristina Eastham, Neal Ungerleider, Sean Carton

One of the latest genres in New Media art is that of Augmented Reality, or the overlay of digital content onto physical reality through the use of smart phones and computer vision. Marshall McLuhan heralded artists as e…

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Jon Lebkowsky, Patrick Lichty

What is the future of manufacturing, design, and creativity? How are 3D printing and the maker movement shifting the global economy? Mike Senese, Senior Editor at Wired, and Peter Weijmarshausen, CEO and Co-Founder of …

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Mike Senese, Peter Weijmarshausen

A tweet that will live in infamy, "GALE CRATER, I AM IN YOU" heralded a new era of space exploration and conversation between NASA and the general public. As the Curiosity Mars rover touched down on the Red Planet, the …

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Doug Ellison, John Beck, Stephanie Smith, Veronica McGregor

Drones often get cast as dystopian killing machines, or Big Brother's newest eyes-in-the-sky. But drones are here to stay -- and coming to a sky near you as soon as September 2015. Will drones live up to the nightmare? A…

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Chris Anderson, Erin Rapacki, Nabiha Syed, Ryan Calo

ConnectiCity aims at gaining deeper understandings about the near future scenarios of cities and citizens. A vision on human-centered smart cities. A narrative experience through experiments, prototypes and services whic…

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Salvatore Iaconesi

The publishing industry is evolving as authors, indie app and game creators and musicians are empowered to self-publish and distribute real time, on demand content to millions of potential customers. There are more oppor…

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Aaron Rubenson, John Densmore, Libby Johnson Mckee, Steve Carpenter

What kind of software would you design to support astronauts aboard a space station? Well, in this session, we'll show you. We are two NASA designers who want to share a little about what we do, the situations we design…

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Sam Hashemi, Steve Hillenius

A new addition to the 2013 lineup, SXSW Home Rooms are where you get the most current information about all the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities for the day ahead. SXSW Home Room also provides a great …

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Around the world, libraries, archives and museums are opening their doors to hackers, makers, enthusiasts and creatives of all kinds. By publishing Open Data, cultural heritage institutions are finding new ways to open …

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Antoine Isaac, Emily Gore, Rachel Frick, Sam Leon

Most of us dream about space exploration - but haven't yet touched those stars ourselves. Can earth science and other open data connect us physically and personally to the exploration of the universe? It could be that th…

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, Ali Llewellyn, David McGloin, Jon Rogers

Margarita Benitez and Markus Vogl work within a collaborative art praxis called //benitez_vogl. //benitez_vogl concentrates on open source projects such as the development of the open source loom, interactive installatio…

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Margarita Benitez, Markus Vogl

Natural language processing enables new ways for people to interact with computers. Widely-available open source tools are making NLP more powerful and easier to incorporate into your application. This panel will introdu…

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Catherine Havasi

Last year, only 45 African American students took the Computer Science AP exam in California, a state known for being a hub of innovation. Hear from the White House and Level Playing Field Institute about innovative ways…

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Brian Forde, Nicole Sanchez

The emergence of incredibly strong and meaningful social relationships being formed by a community through a collective elaboration of meaning, especially when it's related to the pop culture arts and creative collaborat…

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Angelo Sotira, Ron Martino

Like artists in other fields, the creators of today’s comics and graphic novels face a lively new landscape of publishing and distribution. The internet, new software tools and an array of social media now equip maverick…

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Calvin Reid, Josh Frankel, Karl Stevens

Will we ever understand complex human experiences such as consciousness or emotions? Will there ever be a way to build synthetic brains or brain-like computers? The brain is a network of billions of interconnected cells …

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Paul Laurienti

Tempers run hot in the tech community anytime you mention the names Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla. At the dawn of the 20th century both men had incredibly accurate predictions for the future and each were talented inven…

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People can earn a living doing what they love. We’ve all heard this before. But most people don’t realize they don’t need to earn as much money as they think to live contently. And with the fear-of-money obstacle out of …

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Courtney Carver, Joshua Becker, Joshua Fields Millburn, Ryan Nicodemus

Complex stories and information can often be difficult to explain. Presented poorly, they can come across as too dense or intimidating to understand. And that can leave you and your audience frustrated. Join our panelist…

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Tristen George, Vanessa Ruiz

The vast majority of data journalism is based on data collected by the government. What if the government doesn't keep the data you need? What if that data is incomplete or questionable? A few journalists and curious cit…

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John Keefe, Matt Waite, Nadav Aharony, Sarah Williams

In the era of today's socially-driven Web, being first to discover breaking trends, opinions and news is a major strategic advantage. But search engines can only show us what has happened in the past; they can not see th…

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Nova Spivack

No longer is it necessary to create a mold and make 10,000 of an item in order to get it produced. Today, 3D printing allows almost anyone to create just about design they can imagine. The technology is being used to mak…

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, Alice Taylor, Avi Reichental, Scott Summit

In 2005, Etsy made a splash, allowing anyone with knitting needles to reach an audience, and MySpace helped musicians like Adele get their big breaks. While the internet has long aided creators trying to get the word out…

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Claire Mazur, Danielle Strle, Jamie Beck, Jen Bekman

The Sketchbook Project is a constantly evolving library of handmade artists’ books, contributed by more than 22,000 people from 130+ countries. The Project encourages creative people from diverse backgrounds — working ar…

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Shane Zucker, Steven Peterman

A new addition to the 2013 lineup, SXSW Home Rooms are where you get the most current information about all the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities for the day ahead. SXSW Home Room also provides a great …

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The online and offline worlds are now melting together, thanks to smartphones and social media. But as our life shifts into the cloud, we’re starting to realize that 0s and 1s lack the tangibility and permanence of paper…

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Ryan Bigge

A geek’s breakdown of the history of comic books and the parallels and principles to modern experience design. From their shared roots in the 1930s and 40s, with Siegel and Shuster’s Superman ushering in a Golden Age an…

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Timothy Parcell

The Pentagon has fast become one of the leading agencies funding -- and conducting -- neuroscience research. From prosthetics for soldiers controlled directly by the brain's signals, to Terminator-like cameras that are c…

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Sharon Weinberger

Supercomputing is for solving BIG problems, and doing so faster than 'regular' collections of servers. Supercomputing is fundamental for scientific advances, and is increasingly being used by companies industries to prod…

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Jay Boisseau

Inspiration comes to us free of charge. But that’s just the start of the creative process. Making a work of art, launching a business or even starting a career requires a holistic mental and emotional skill set. Josh Go…

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Josh Gosfield

The 21st century has introduced an array of technologies that strive to enable the seamless mix of virtual content and real-world environments. The ability to augment the human senses holds great potential, but could the…

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Alex Olwal, Jamie Zigelbaum

Chris Ruppel demonstrates some bleeding-edge creative concepts you can achieve using CSS3. Examples aren't as practical as they are inspiring, showing off the possibilities of CSS3 and touching on components like animati…

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Chris Ruppel

All design requires some speculation—after all, a designer must predict an individual’s uncertain reaction to her work. What of design that teaches by speculating on what our future might look like? Orwell and Huxley hav…

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Gabriel Schaffzin

Over the past three years, hackathons have spun up into a hurricane gale of headline and hype for the hacker culture we all know and love. Builders of every stripe flock to these events held on themes ranging from music…

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Dave Haynes, Jarod Reyes, Joel Franusic, Kara Silverman

The Smile Epidemic session will teach us how to shift our limited attention, using an innovative, science-based social sharing tool that increases levels of happiness in individuals and organizations. Pro-athlete and Fou…

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, Jim Moss

The last few decades of the American theater have seen a rapid growth in the number of ‘devising ensembles’—playwrights, actors, directors, and designers working together in collaborative groups to develop plays. It's ag…

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Gwydion Suilebhan

With the landing of the space shuttle Atlantis in July of 2011, NASA effectively took itself out of the manned spaceflight game—at least for now. In the months that followed, an array of private companies have filled tha…

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Jeffrey Kluger, Marsha Ivins, Michael Griffin, Sara Seagar

Hotel Second Play Stage performance. Free and open to registrants and public.……

Hotel Second Play Stage performance. Free and open to registrants and public.……

Hotel Second Play Stage performance. Free and open to registrants and public.……

Hotel Second Play Stage performance. Free and open to registrants and public.……

Hotel Second Play Stage performance. Free and open to registrants and public.……

Hotel Second Play Stage performance. Free and open to registrants and public.……

Hotel Second Play Stage performance. Free and open to registrants and public.……

Hotel Second Play Stage performance. Free and open to registrants and public.……