May 2007

Workshop on Philosophy & Engineering issues CFP

The 2007 Workshop on Philosophy & Engineering has issued its call for papers here. The workshop will be held at TUDelft, October 29-31, 2007 (Monday-Wednesday). Extended abstracts (1-2 pages) are due 17 August 2007.

Philosophy of technology reading seminar at UIUC Fall 2007

Cliff Christians is offering his Philosophy of Technology seminar, Comm 577, in Fall 2007 at the UIUC on Tuesdays from 3-5 pm. The course syllabus may be downloaded here, and those interested in further information should contact the instructor here.

Ray Fouche’s talk is available on video and in ppt

The video of Fouche’s Engineering Hip Hop is available here, synched video-ppt here, and pdf of ppt here.

Desperately seeking suggestions

for next year’s ETC lecture series.  We are looking for speakers from off-campus and on for next fall’s series. 

Send your suggestions to Michael Loui or me, Dave Goldberg.

ETSI country distribution

Is as follows:

  • UNITED STATES UNITED STATES 82.11%
  • CHINA CHINA 2.66%
  • VIET NAM VIET NAM 2.24%
  • JAPAN JAPAN 2.05%
  • CANADA CANADA 1.99%
  • GERMANY GERMANY 1.15%
  • ITALY ITALY 0.85%
  • INDIA INDIA 0.79%
  • TAIWAN TAIWAN 0.79%
  • MALAYSIA MALAYSIA 0.54%
  • Others 4.83%

Who’d a thunk we were so popular in Vietnam?

2 slideshows on engineering and creativity

I gave a couple of talks about engineering and creativity in the UK last week, and they are available over at The Entrepreneurial Engineer here and here (using www.slideshare.net viewers).