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UCB BID/HCC RetreatGranlibakken Conference Center, Lake Tahoe
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This is a combined retreat for the Berkeley Institute of Design and HCC - the Human-Centered Computing group. The retreat is a 3-day event with faculty and students from UCB and collaborators from outside UCB. There are no costs for attending the retreat . You can find out more about Granlibakken here. We won't provide transportation, but if you'd like help finding a partner to carpool with, mail jfc@cs.berkeley.edu.
As well as general overviews, this retreat will have a focus on two topics: (i) teaching and industry relationship strategies for BID and (ii) educational technology opportunities.
The main HCC project page is here. BID has a skeletal website at bid.berkeley.edu
Program:
| Sunday, June 16 | |
| 12:00-1:30 | Check-in and Lunch |
| 1:30-2:00 | Introduction and updates on BID and HCC - John Canny |
| 2:00-3:30 | Lightning research overviews by BID
Faculty - James Landay - Bernd Hamann - Ellen Do |
| 3:30-4:00 | Coffee Break |
| 4:00-5:00 | More Lightning Overviews |
| 6:00-7:30 | Dinner |
| 7:30-later | Poster presentations |
| Monday, June 17 | |
| 8:30-9:30 | Panel on BID - Pedagogy and Industry
Relationships - John Canny - Maribeth Back - Aaron Marcus/Leslie Becker |
| 9:30-10:30 | Panel on Visualization - Carlo Sequin - Oliver Staadt - Dan Glaser |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00-1:00pm | Breakouts |
| 1:00-2:00pm | Lunch |
| 2:00pm - late | Free time: Kayaking, canoeing, running, horse-riding etc., |
| 6:00-7:30pm | Dinner |
| Tuesday, June 18 | |
| 8:30-10:00 | Reports from Breakout groups |
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30-12:00n | Industry Feedback |
| 12:00-1pm | Lunch |
Getting there:
Most people will be driving. Email me (jfc@cs.berkeley.edu)
if you'd like help finding a carpool.
Amtrak has trains and coaches to Truckee and Tahoe. There are train-coach combinations
(about 4 hours) from Berkeley (BKY) to Truckee (TRU) that arrive at noon. See http://reservations.amtrak.com.