SXSW 2015

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Well Designed: Creating Empathy-Driven Products

“Where do great products come from?” This was one of the first questions Jon Kolko, the Founder and Director of the Austin Center for Design and Vice President of Consumer Design at Blackboard, asked the audience at his Friday-morning SXSW Interactive panel, Well-Designed: Creating Empathy Driven Products. “Is it vision?  Process?  Or just hard work?” He continued […]

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Security of Things: Who Will Save Us?

By now, we’ve all heard of the “Internet of Things” (if you haven’t, educate yourself because it is the future), but what exactly will keep our “things” safe from hackers? In his Friday SXSW Interactive session, Nicholas Percoco, VP of Strategic Services at Rapid7, explained what the government is doing, what the industry has done, […]

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The Evolution of Audio in the 21st Century

Traug Keller, SVP Production, Business Divisions at ESPN said that 92% of audio listeners used FM/AM radio this past week but there has been rapid growth in digital audio channels, primarily podcast; 25% of the current audio audience for ESPN uses digital channels. The primary avenue for digital audio growth for ESPN, and other talk […]

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#nofilter - Krystine Batcho on Constant Connection and Students

We are connected to the Internet and social media 24/7. Technology has transformed our lives in ways no one thought possible 25 years ago. So how are these digital experiences influencing the younger generation? Krystine Batcho, psychology professor at Le Moyne College, said that being constantly connected has both positive benefits and negative consequences for Generations Y […]

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Young Astronomers & JWST

At SXSW gaming expo NASA contractor Northrop Grumman has some young University of Texas Astronomy post docs and undergrads talking about the new James Webb Space Telescope. The JWST is launching in  2018 and will work with Hubble in our investigation of the cosmos. Eventually taking over Hubble’s role. Testing is going on right now […]

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NASA & Cine Space

Frontiers and images, learning and inspiration, these are things at that core of how the NASA mission affects us. A new video aggregation service and competition was announced after  Astronaut Don Pettit gave is talk about life on the International Space Station. NASA is teaming up with the Houston Cinema Arts Festival for their new […]