Morgan, I'd love to hear more but unfortunately I'll be in Israel/Palestine that day. I just ran across your name when I saw an announcement of a talk by someone from OLPC and looked up Wikipedia to see it's current state. The Wikipedia article says "Mark Warschauer, a Professor of University of California at Irvine and Morgan Ames, at the time of writing, a PhD candidate at Hawaii University, have pointed out that the laptop by itself does not completely fill the need of students in underprivileged countries." Should I trust anything else it says? I'd love to catch up some time, and congratulations on finishing the dissertation. --t
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Morgan G. Ames <morga...@stanford.edu>wrote: > I am thrilled to announce that I will be defending my dissertation, *From > MIT to Paraguay: A Critical Historical and Ethnographic Analysis of One > Laptop Per Child, *at noon on May 6, 2013. The first portion of my > defense is a public talk and all are welcome to attend (and there will be > food!). Details are below. Please add yourself to the Facebook invite at > https://www.facebook.com/events/440879955993620/ or the Google+ invite at > https://plus.google.com/events/can6q664pea0ta5epvdhc7mqqes so I know how > much food to order and chairs to put out. > > - *What*: Morgan's dissertation defense > - *When*: Monday, May 6, 2013, 12pm-1pm (public talk/questions) > - *Where*: Mendenhall Library, 101a McClatchy Hall (building 120 in > the main quad), Stanford, CA. > - *Who*: me! <http://morganya.org/> Also my advisor > Fred<http://fredturner.stanford.edu/>; my > committee Cliff <http://www.stanford.edu/~nass/>, > Jeremy<http://comm.stanford.edu/faculty-bailenson/> > , Tanya<https://www.stanford.edu/dept/anthropology/cgi-bin/web/?q=node/105> > and John <https://ed.stanford.edu/faculty/willinsk>; and my outside > chair Scott <http://hci.stanford.edu/srk/>. And hopefully you! > - *Why*: because I'm FINALLY FINISHING yo. And I'll be serving up some > yummy lunch stuff if you come to listen to my talk. > > In addition to (or instead of) watching my defense, join me later that > afternoon, at 4pm, at Martins West Gastropub (http://www.martinswestgp.com) > at 831 Main Street in Redwood City for drinks in either celebration or > condolences. Note that Martins West has free corkage for Monday happy hour! > Again, please add yourself to the Facebook invite at > https://www.facebook.com/events/530231990360654/ or the Google+ invite at > https://plus.google.com/events/cu8i2222i2f22nhihk8r32ulslo so I have an > approximate headcount. > > Maps, directions, and more information at > http://research.morganya.org/defense.html > > Cheers, > Morgan > > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Morgan G. Ames > http://morganya.org > > > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech >
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