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October 13th, 2009 — Tucker Childs
Applied Linguistics, Portland State University

The Technology and Tribulations of Documenting Dying Languages in West Africa
This presentation introduces a project documenting a dying language in Sierra Leone, West Africa, where a civil war has destroyed whatever infrastructure once existed in a place where no roads ever reached. Because only twenty very old speakers of the language are still around, the three-year project is something of an urgent salvage operation, and must acquire the most robust and high-quality data possible since this will be the only chance to document the language before it disappears entirely. Digitization and miniaturization technologies have served such enterprises well. So have computers and advances in storage and data capture possibilities.

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September 8th, 2009 — Anthony Jones
Social Media Analyst at Intel

Is Social Media More Than Just Surfing The Web?
Join us for a Berglund Center Roundtable presentation featuring Anthony Jones a Social Media Analyst at Intel. In this presentation Tony will be discussing how Intel and other businesses are using social media to betterinteract with their customers.

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May 15th, 2009 — Zachary Bingaman
Pacific University Senior

"Web Neutrality: Designing Websites to Adhere with the Americans with Disabilities Acts' Standards"
In this Information era the general public considers the Internet as a visual media. Sight, sound and interaction are common themes in websites, but what if you have a disability limiting your access and use of this media and its resources? And how do you design for accessibility to allow these individuals to fully experience the Internet and its resources?

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April 7th, 2009 — Jerald Block
Featuring students from Forest Grove High School and members of the Pacific University Gaming Club

"Community discussion of so-called "game-playing addiction."
Dr. Jerald Block will lead a community discussion on so-called "game-playing addiction" with students from Forest Grove High School and members of the Pacific University Gaming Club. Dr. Block is a leading authority on compulsive computer use, pathological computer use, and "Internet addiction." In addition to numerous lectures and papers on computers and pathological computer use, Dr. Block has testified before the FCC and the California Senate on issues ranging from illegal file downloading to pornography and the Internet. He has presented papers in Korea and in China. He has also recently published a psychiatric forensic analysis on the shootings at Columbine High School.

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March 10th, 2009 — Steven Wax
Lawyer and former head of Oregon's Federal Public Defender Office

"The Erosion of Civil Liberties in Electronic Communication in the Bush Administrations"
Steve Wax is the author of the best-selling work Kafka Comes to America. Steven is an Oregon attorney who headed Oregon's Federal Public Defender Office for 21 years. He is one of seven Oregon lawyers who volunteered to defend those held in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps. Wax defended Brandon Mayfield, the Oregon convert to Islam, who was falsely accused of a role in the Spanish al Qaeda train bombing. His talk will focus upon the erosion of civil liberties in electronic communication in the Bush administrations.

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February 23rd, 2009 — Joseph Howell
Managing Director, Financial Intelligence, LLC

"China, Globalization, and Evolving International Financial Reporting Standards"
Joseph Howell is the Managing Director of Financial Intelligence, LLC, a financial consulting firm headquartered in Mountain View, California. Joe's topic is China and the creation and implementation of international financial reporting standards that are language and culture-neutral. The program is to be served on the Internet to major Chinese business schools.

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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.