Consider the future of ubiquitous computing.
Complete our reading of Style.
I strongly encourage you to go to the First Year Introduction to the Career Development Office today at 4:15. The CDO is a great resource!
Consider attending the following campus event(s). For "short assignment" credit, email me a one-paragraph report giving your reaction to the event.
Today at 8 p.m. in JRC 101, Prof. Lloyd P. Gerson ’70 will speak on the "Morality of Nations" in the context of the working metaphor of a global village.
Testing the Echo, a play about immigration and citizenship, will be performed Thursday-Saturday at 8 pm and Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Flanagan Theatre.
On Monday at 7 p.m. in ARH 120, Jaimie Adelson ’07 and John Guittar ’07 speak about their Grinnell Corps year working at a field research station in Namibia's remote desert. Among other things, they will be discussing the effects of a growing uranium industry.
Does anyone have any events this weekend they would like to invite their classmates to?
Prepare for class by doing the following.
Read Nathan, L.P., Friedman, B., Klasjna, P.V., Kane, S.K., & Miller,
J.K. (in press). Envisioning systemic effects on persons and society throughout interactive system design.
This paper is available from http://depts.washington.edu/vsdesign/publications.php
Read Greenfield, A. (2006). How might we safeguard our prerogatives in an everyware world?
This book chapter is available through e-Reserve.
Bring your calendars to help us plan the end of the semester.
Happy Thanksgiving! Travel safely!
You will present your research for the "anatomy of a research project" during the last two weeks of class.
Your final paper, due during finals week, will be an essay reflecting on academic skills you have developed this semester.
Janet Davis (davisjan@cs.grinnell.edu)
Created November 19, 2008