Engineering and Technology Studies at Illinois

On Wednesday, 31 October 2007, Christian Sandvig of the Department of Speech Communications, UIUC, will speak on The Bad Neighborhoods of the Electromagnetic Spectrum in Room 2405, Siebel Center. A pdf file of the talk flyer may be downloaded here.

Jim Wicks of Motorola will speak tonight, 8 October at 5:30 pm, at 62 Krannert Art Museum on RAZR and Beyond as part of the Designmatters lecture series.

Please join me in welcoming the latest Engineering and Technology Studies at Illinois faculty affiliate, Dennis Baron of Engish and Linguistics.  Among other things, Professor Baron is interested in technology and writing, and his faculty affiliates entry (here) lists a number of cool links, including his popular Web of Language and his essay From Pencils to Pixels.

UIUC’s George Gross (Electrical & Computer Engineering) will speak this Wednesday, October 10, at 3:30-5 pm in Room 160 English Bldg. on Global Energy Trends: The Supply/Demand, the Technology and the Policy Dimensions.  This lecture is cosponsored by The Center for Global Studies and ETSI as part of the LOT Series (Limits and Opportunities of Technology).