Sooo, ummm, do you have to be Jewish? 

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> From: Tanya <[address removed]>
> Subject: [ai-94] Event, 11/10 - Can Robotic Cars save the world?; Plus networking
> To: [address removed]
> Date: Saturday, November 7, 2009, 12:11 AM
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> Event, 11/10 - Can Robotic Cars save the world?;
> Plus networking
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> Can
> Robotic Cars save the world?
> 
> Featuring Brad
> Templeton
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> When: Tuesday, Nov. 10th, 6:30 - 9:30 pm 
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> Where: Fenwick & West, 801 California St.,
> Mountain View, CA 
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> RSVP: http://www.jhtc.o...
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> Regular Admission: $10    
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> Student Admission: $5     (ID
> required)
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> Members Admission: Included (You can join at http://jhtc.org)
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> Agenda
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> 6:30 - 7:00: Networking, schmoozing and eating -
> Bring your job postings, business cards and resumes!
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> 7:00 - 7:10: Welcome, committee news and other group
> business
> 
> 7:10 - 8:30: Presentation and Discussion with our featured
> guests
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> 8:30 - 9:30: Informal discussions and networking with our
> guests and each other
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> About the Event
> 
> Prototype self-driving cars have been built by small,
> innovative teams thanks to a military-funded contest. But
> they can change the civilian world in astounding ways. This
> talk outlines how this technology could save millions of
> lives and make efficient electric (or other new technology)
> cars marketable and practical, resulting in major reductions
> in pollution and the elimination of the need to import oil.
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> The consequences extend into the realm of social
> interaction, manufacturing and the very nature of cities --
> perhaps the largest effect on the world that computers may
> have in the medium term. But the challenge is not just
> technological, but also political and social, and the
> results are not all upsides.
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> About the Speaker
> 
> Brad Templeton is currently early in the development of
> Caller App, the "reinvention of the telephone call
> itself" and chairman of the Electronic Freedom
> Foundation.
> 
> Templeton founded and ran ClariNet Communications Corp.,
> the first internet-based content company, then sold it to
> Newsedge Corporation in 1997. ClariNet publishes an online
> electronic newspaper delivered for live reading on
> subscribers machines.
> 
> 
> 
> He's been active in the computer network community
> since 1979, participated in the building and growth of
> USENET from its earliest days and in 1987 he founded and
> edited rec.humor.funny, the world's most widely read
> computerized conference and today the world's longest
> running blog. He has been a software company founder, and is
> the author of a dozen packaged microcomputer software
> products.
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> 
> Brad also sits on the advisory boards for a few internet
> startups, including BitTorrent, Inc and is also on the board
> of the Foresight Institute (A Nanotech think-tank). Via
> ClariNet, He was a plaintiff in the case to get the
> USA's Communications Decency Act successfully overturned
> in the supreme court. He was born in 1960, grew up near
> Toronto and now lives in Silicon Valley. He holds a Bachelor
> of Mathematics degree from the University of
> Waterloo.
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