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November 11th, 2008 — Christie Gehring
Liquid Development

Pixel Permeation: The Influence and the Future of the Game Industry
With a projected revenue of $57 billion dollars in 2009, the video game and interactive media industry is becoming one of the most powerful and influential enterprises domestically as well as worldwide. Criticized for being violent, objectifying women and overall degenerative, videogames are misconceived and are overlooked for the positive contributions they have made to society. Come take a closer look at this emerging media in a new light; see how it diffuses across different practices and applications, both culturally and in the business world, and explore the future of this lucrative and evolving industry.

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October 14th, 2008 — Mark Bailey and Mike Charles
College of Education, Pacific University

"One Laptop Per Child: Informal Learning Around the World"
Join us for a Berglund Roundtable presentation about current progress with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Initiative, a worldwide effort from an international consortium to produce and provide an affordable laptop for children around the world.

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September 9th, 2008 — William Hooker
PostDoc, Biomed Research, Portland, Oregon

"Science 2.0"
Open Source to Open Access, the idea and implementation of knowledge as a public good is making progress -- but we can do much better, particularly in science. This Roundtable will focus on Open Science, the process of discovery at the intersection of Open Access (publishing), Open Data, Open Source (software), Open Standards (semantic markup) and Open Licensing.

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April 2008 — LUNARR
The latest international venture from Toru Takasuka

Lots of Why's and What is LUNARR?
Toru Takasuka quit his fast-rising Panasonic career 10 years ago and founded the #1 groupware venture company in Japan. Next, he quit his own wildly successful company in 2005. Then, for his second startup company, he chose to start it in quiet Portland over Silicon Valley. Why?

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March 18th, 2008 — Jerry Jones
Computer Forensics instructor and course developer for the National White Collar Crime Center

"The Internet: Cloak of Anonymity"
This discussion will examine how the Internet has and does change peoples' lives--sometimes for the worse. Also discussed will be the use of social networking sites and their future including "Virtual Worlds".

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February 19th, 2008 — Barb Frederiksen
Forensic Software Analyst
Johnson-Laird, Inc.

"Will Peer to Peer Disappear?: An Inquiry into the Current State of File Sharing"

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Upcoming Roundtables

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
The Berglund Center Roundtable series will start off the new semester with Martin Ringle, the Chief Technology Officer at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He will reveal what Reed learned from the Kindle Pilot Project, where a number of students were given a Kindle DX in lieu of Textbooks.


All roundtables will be held from noon until 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time zone unless otherwise noted.