[wplug] [Snapgh-announce] SNAPGH Meeting 6/28/2006 at 6pm "Perfect Data in an Imperfect World" CMU Wean 8220 (fwd)

[Beth Lynn]

Stop by at the System and Network Administrators of Pittsburgh meeting 
this Wednesday if you are interested.

Thanks,
Beth Lynn

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Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:45:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: Beth Lynn <bethlynn at wplug.org>
To: snapgh-announce at pmw.org
Subject: [Snapgh-announce] SNAPGH Meeting 6/28/2006 at 6pm
     "Perfect Data in an Imperfect World" CMU Wean 8220

Hello,

You are invited to the System and Network Administrators of Pittsburgh meeting
on Wednesday June 28, 2006 at 6pm. The main event at 6:30 will be Dan
Klein's talk:  "Perfect Data in an Imperfect World" in which he presented
as the keynote at Linux Forum 2006 in Denmark. The place will be Carnegie
Mellon University, Wean Hall 8220.

Agenda
6:00-6:15 Meet and greet, light refreshments served
6:15-6:30 System and Network Administrators of Pittsburgh organizational
announcements and discussion
6:30-7:45 "Perfect Data in an Imperfect World" by Dan Klein 8PM adjournment

Speaker: Dan Klein
Topic: Perfect Data in an Imperfect World
Abstract:
It is no secret that we are at the dawn of the digital age - our parents (and
for some of us, even our grandparents) have computers, digital cameras, MP3
players, etc. We each have more computing power in our cell phones than the
mainframes of 35 years ago, and everywhere we find data acquisition and
tracking systems.
Privacy has never before been more zealously guarded nor more freely abandoned,
and with the proliferation of digital data collection and dissemination have
come new worries.
What is being recorded, why, and by whom?
With literally billions of computers around us, how can we keep our data (and
ourselves) safe? How can we prevent misappropriation or misuse of information
about ourselves? How can we ever expunge flawed records, urban legends, or
embarrassing facts? We have become the elephant who never forgets, but what are
we remembering?
This talk will take a look at what our world is becoming, and perhaps suggest
what we can do to make it a little less imperfect.

Directions:
Wean Hall is part of Carnegie Mellon University on the West side of campus.
Directly to the North are Newell Simon and Hamburg Hall. Directly to the South
is Porter Hall. If you have not been to Carnegie Mellon Campus recently, you
may want to look at this map as it indicates the construction zones.
http://www.wplug.org/pages/wplugmap/campus2006.png

There are city meters that are free after 6pm on Frew Street near the South
entrance of Porter Hall.
The Address for use in your favorite online map is approximately
5005 Frew St, Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Morewood Gardens parking lot which is large Carnegie Mellon parking lot across
from Hamburg Hall on Forbes Ave is also free after 5pm.
The Address for use in your favorite online map is approximately
4955 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213

The hosts of this meeting are Esther Filderman and Beth Lynn Eicher.
You may contact us at info at snapgh.org

Thank you and hope to see you there!

Esther and Beth Lynn
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