Education and Technology
August-2012 Event of SIPA
Educational technology is the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using and managing appropriate technological processes and resources.
Panel Discussion
- Internet and mobile devices such as the laptop, Ipad, Iphone, etc.
- Promoting access by ensuring a device for every learner irrespective of location
- Latest trends in learning and teaching including Wikipedia and Khan Academy.
Panel Moderator:
Camille Smith : President, Work In Progress Coaching
http://www.wipcoaching.com/about/
Panelist:
Preetha Ram Cofounder and Chief Academic Officer, Open Study, Assoc. Dean Emory
http://www.linkedin.com/in/preetharam
Avinash Patil : Worldwide Program Manager for PPS Attach Services, HP
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/avinash-patil/1b/651/246
Dr.Peter Norvig Director of Research, Google
http://norvig.com/bio.html
Pooja Sankar, Founder & CEO, Piazza
https://piazza.com/team.html/
Claire Schneeberger,
Founder & CEO, Monarch Media
http://www.monarchmedia.com/team-bios.html/
Bios
Dr.Peter Norvig
Dr. Peter Norvig is the Director of Research at Google Inc, where he has been since 2001. From 2002-2005 he was Director of Search Quality, which means he was the manager of record responsible for answering more queries than anyone else in the history of the world. He is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and the Association for Computing Machinery and co-author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach , the leading textbook in the field (with 94% market share).
Previously he was the head of the Computational Sciences Division at NASA Ames Research Center, making him NASA's senior computer scientist. He received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Award in 2001. He has served as an assistant professor at the University of Southern California and a research faculty member at the University of California at Berkeley Computer Science Department, from which he received a Ph.D. in 1986 and the distinguished alumni award in 2006. He has over fifty publications in Computer Science, concentrating on Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing and Software Engineering, including the books Paradigms of AI Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp, Verbmobil: A Translation System for Face-to-Face Dialog, and Intelligent Help Systems for UNIX. He is also the author of the Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation and the world's longest palindromic sentence.
Pooja Sankar
Founder & CEO Piazza Pooja (Nath) Sankar is the founder and CEO of Piazza, a social platform for students and teachers used by hundreds of thousands of students at hundreds of schools across the world. She has worked at Oracle, Kosmix, and Facebook, and has degrees from IIT, the University of Maryland, and Stanford. The genesis for Piazza and Sankar's passion for social learning came from her experience as one of a handful of women in the computer science program at IIT in the late 1990s. Sankar started Piazza while studying for her MBA at Stanford, where she failed a class in entrepreneurship because she was too busy running the business. We are @piazza on Twitter.
Location:
Oak Room, Building 48, Cupertino HP Cupertino Campus (click here for map)
19483 Pruneridge Ave
Cupertino, CA
Date:
Thursday, August 23rd, 2012
Agenda:
6:00pm - 6:45pm Dinner and Networking
6:45pm - 8:00pm Panel Discussion
8:00pm - 8:15pm Audience Q&A
8.15pm - 8:30pm Thanks and Networking
Online:
Member $0.00 - Non-Member $15.00 (Membership is 50$ yearly includes 10 Free Monthly events)
Onsite:
Member $0.00 - Non-Member $20.00
