I’m very much looking forward to the next Geek Out Summit /slash/ self birthday gathering at Monkey Town HQ later this month. What better way to close out the 4-day Thanksgiving weekend than to indulge yourself in some geeky mental stimulus?
The Details:
Date/Time: Sunday, November 26th at 8PM
RSVP: recommended but not necessary; send me an Email; Please forward onto friends!
Place: MonkeyTownHQ; 53 N 3rd St (Wythe & Kent); Williamsburg, Brooklyn; Great dinner menu & drink selection
Map | About the GOS
Itinerary:
Silvio – Aging Agents and how to slow them down
Over the past three generations life expectancy in the US has grown a stunning 20%. Will this keep rising? Will our grandchildren live to be 100+ on average? Silvio will discuss efforts & research in the academic medical industry that are identifying aging agents (say that fast three times) and how to slow them down.
Jonathan - Online Identity Aggregation , Misdirection & Sleight of Hand - FindMeOn.com
Internet users increasingly collect 'identities': online accounts, social network / forum profiles, blogs, email addresses and the like... On their own, these identities are disparate entities- but when cross-referenced against one another, multi-dimensioned personalities and complex webs of chained friendships emerge. The talk is planned to compare and contrast the new project FindMeOn ( which was originally developed to link indie rock band websites together ) with open source and commercial identity management / aggregation tools-- stressing the importance of Open Standards , Identity Abstraction / Privacy , and Verifiability / Reputation.
Matt – HIV Immunology & Medications
Think you know HIV and AIDS? Where did HIV came from, and how does it actually work? We'll take a look at the immunology of HIV, and what programs are out there currently (and why they work and don't work). Come find out more!
Greg – A tour of the Universe
Greg will give us a guided tour of the cosmos using some very cool astronomy software. During this presentation, we will plunge deeply into our seats and use Monkey Town HQ’s amazing projection capabilities to take a tour of the cosmos. Greg will guide us though the tour giving us interesting tidbits along the way.
Hope to see you all there!!!