Media

Tuesday, February 10th, 2010 — Martin Ringle, Ph.D.
Chief Technology Officer, Reed College

"What We Learned About E-Books from the Kindle Pilot Project"
Reed College is one of seven institutions selected by Amazon to participate in a pilot project to evaluate the Kindle DX e-book reader in higher education. During the fall semester (2009) roughly 40 Reed students in three upper-level courses used the DX in lieu of conventional textbooks. We will discuss the highlights of the project, including feedback provided by students and faculty and observations about the potential impact of e-book technology on college libraries, bookstores, publishing, and instruction. Trina Marmarelli, an instructional technologist who worked closely with students and faculty during the project, will join Dr. Ringle in the discussion.


March 9, 2010 — Jinesh Varia
Technology Evangelist, Amazon Web Services, Amazon.com

"New Technology Trends: Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Web Services"
In this session, Jinesh Varia, Evangelist for Amazon Web Services, will discuss the latest innovations from Amazon.com, and will focus on new technology trends like Utility computing (Paying by the hour, paying by the Gigabyte usage), Virtualization and Web Services in the Cloud and most importantly, discuss some of the innovative business models for Start-Ups, Enterprise companies and Universities.


Upcoming Roundtables

The Berglund Roundtables will return in the Fall, leading off with Michael Schaub, the editor of "Bookslut," the largest and best-established book review site on the internet.


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