BIL 2009
February 7-8
Long Beach, California
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an open, self-organizing, emergent, and anarchic science and technology conference.
Nobody is in charge.
If you want to come, just show up.
If you have an idea to spread, start talking.
If someone is saying something interesting, stop and listen.
Short Film Festival
Choreographer and filmmaker Aileen Mapes will be curating a short film festival comprising of original submissions as well as her personal favourites. Pieces will be accompanied by lively discussion, insight, and opinion.
Hacking the Human Fantastic
The boundaries between the human and his environment have been thinning for thousands of years, and this session will trace the co-evolution of the human mind and the technology it has created. From the cuniform and cartouch to the iLife, the impact and significance of artifacts on the human experience are [...]
An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything
In his much talked about paper An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything, physicist Garrett Lisi proposed a novel model for all fundamental interactions ever observed. At BIL Garrett will be fielding questions and discussing everything and anything.
Booze. Intellectuals. Learning.
That’s what we first thought of. But we want it to mean more than that. We’re trying to think up words that start with B, I, and L, and then we’ll have them randomly come together on the homepage. Every time you visit this site, BIL will stand for something else, or at [...]
BIL is to TED, what BarCamp is to FooCamp.
We’re all huge fans of TED. We love that they’ve opened up the TED talks to everyone by putting them online for free. But some of us would like to be more engaged and involved. We want to interact with the presenters and attendees, and share our [...]
We’ve finally put together a website for our conference. There’s still some work that needs to be done on it, but it’s looking good.
This is going to be the marketing website for BIL; the official website is the wiki: http://bilconference.pbwiki.com Use the wiki to sign up, say what you’ll be speaking about, and help organize [...]