Internet pioneer, Ethernet inventor, entrepreneur, and now UT professor, Bob Metcalfe, entertained SXSW attendees for an hour with his newest goal of trying to “make Austin a better Silicon Valley” through his “One Semester Startup” course at the University of Texas.
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The Integrated Media Association will be holding their 10th annual conference in conjunction with SXSWi this March 7 and 8. The iMA is an organization created in the late 1990s (officially incorporated in 2004) as a common landing ground for public media operations around the nation. The main goals of iMA are to enable public […]
Lisa Bodell is coming to SXSWi as the author of Kill the Company, and as an exemplary free thinker who’s out-of-the-box mindset feeds the spirit of the convention. “This book is about the hypocrisy that exists within many businesses when it comes to innovation. Too often, when leaders say they want their teams to “be […]
“It is 6a.m. and you are dreaming of electric sheep,” said Dan Willis, of SapientNitro. In the imagined future, when one wakes up from dreamland, he or she will simply thrust a hand into the air and digital sensors will project onto the hand an assortment of information including time, weather, family vital information, and […]