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    If you’d like to know what the Mind Candy team and I are getting up to at the E3 convention in Los Angeles, check out our Flickr Photo Blog for lots of fun and illicit photos of various E3 exhibits and cool stuff.

  • Let me back in

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    Right now I’m on a Virgin Atlantic flight to Los Angeles, to attend the E3 convention. I have inevitably ended up directly behind someone who has chosen to tilt his seat back as far as it can go, and slightly further besides. This sort of thing is like the tragedy of the commons – if…

  • NotCon and FreeFire

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    I visited NotCon ’04 yesterday and had a lot of fun being able to go into maximum geekitude along with the rest of the 300+ attendees. I didn’t hear anything particularly new at the conference apart from the announcement of the wonderful TheyWorkForYou.com website, but I met a bunch of interesting people and reveled in…

  • More neuroscience

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    The theme of today’s conference sessions was on attention, on which William James famously said, “Everyone knows what attention is.” (I never want to hear that phrase again. Ever. I heard it enough today) I wasn’t too enamoured with the first three talks today, which were arguably given by the big-hitters of the conference. I…

  • Neuroscience

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    So Bhisma has requested a few long posts on the cognitive neuroscience conference I’m currently attending in Oxford (that’s my life – one long, endless round of conferences…). The conference, properly named the Autumn School in Cognitive Neuroscience, began on Monday at the Department of Experimental Psychology. Some thoughts on the sessions: First talk was…

  • The TEDMED3 Experience: Day 1

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    A review and summary of the presentations given on the first day of the TEDMED3 conference in Philadelphia.

  • Notes from the Front

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    Wired recently wrote an article on how bloggers are violating gag rules at conferences. In the article, they mention the organiser of the TEDMED3 conference I’m going to tomorrow: Richard Saul Wurman, organizer of the long-running TED conference (which is now TedMed), said reporting restrictions are meaningless, a smoke screen to make attendees think they…

  • TEDMED3

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    Long-time followers of my weblog (all three of you) will remember that back in 2001, I was a speaker at the 11th Technology Entertainment Design conference in Monterey, California. It was an incredible experience and the old line, “Yeah, I had dinner with Matt Groening,” never fails to impress. The idea behind the TED conferences…

  • GDC2003

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    Game Developers Conference 2003 Coverage – Adrenaline Vault’s providing a nice ongoing summary of the highlights of this year’s GDC. Avault generally does these types of things well – they have a high quality of writing that feels much more personal.

  • Wishlist for Mars

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    The Speaker Wishlist for the Mars Society 2003 Convention – Chris Isaak? ‘Any of the cast of Survivor’? Arnold Schwarzennager? (sic) Any female astronauts? I hate to think of who made this list, and how they did it. And in any case, isn’t it a bit late to be signing up speakers for a date…