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02-23-1995, 09:51 PM
Chicago Circle Center, UIC
750 South Halsted, Chicago
March 2 - 4, 1995
Conference Schedule
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THURSDAY
MARCH 2
7:30 pm OPENING PLENARY
Jeremy Rifkin
author, _The End of Work: The Decline of the
Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-
Market Era_
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FRIDAY
MARCH 3
8:30 am REGISTRATION
9:00 am PLENARY #1: THE FUTURE BEFORE US
Nancy John (Chair)
Assistant University Librarian (UIC)
Ada Lopez (Welcome)
Board of Trustees, University of Illinois
Don Holt
Associate Dean, College of Agriculture
University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign
Thomas DeFanti
Professor of Electrical Engineering and
ComputerScience, University of Illinois - Chicago
Robert Wedgeworth
University Librarian
University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign
Jonathan King
Professor of Molecular Biology
Massachusettes Institute of Technology
11:00 am WORKSHOPS
Access to Education
For Whom the Bell Curves: Racism and the Violence
Initiative
New Technology and Our Workplace
Will Hard Copy Survive? Printing and Publishing in the
Digital Age
High Tech Work: Will Getting the Training Mean
Getting the Job
Let Us Proclaim! Chicago, from Hog Butcher to ... What
We Envision It (Writing Workshop)
plus: GETTING YOUR ORGANIZATION ONLINE: A special
workshop for representatives of community
organizations and non-profits to find out what it
takes to get your organization connected and online.
Presenter: Al Schorsch, Manager, UIC Neighborhoods
and NonProfits Network, at the Center for Urban
Economic Development.
12:30 pm LUNCH
2:00 pm WORKSHOPS
Who is Deciding?
Fighting Back Against the New Poverty
Work and the Global Economy
Plenty to be Done: What New Jobs Should Be Created?
The New Biology
Robots and Political Economy
Plus: DRIVING LESSONS ON THE INFO HIGHWAY: An
introduction to the Internet (Science & Engineering
Lab 2249). This intro will be repeated at 3:00 pm
Plus: CRUISIN' THE INFOBAHN: Open Internet
use (volunteers will be available give directions)
(Science & Engineering Lab 2249). 2:00 - 5:00 pm
4:00 pm PLENARY #2: THE MORNING AFTER: In the Wake of the
Technology Revolution
Wanda White (Chair)
Community Workshop on Economic Development
Richard Hatcher
Former Mayor, Gary, Indiana
Professor of Law, Valparaiso University
John Bentacur
Center for Urban Economic Development (UIC)
Dan Lane
Strike Negotiations Team
Staley Workers (Decatur, Illinois)
General Baker
UAW Veteran Worker/Activist
7:00 pm Cultural Event
TECHNO REVOLT -- A CYBER CABARET
plus
MAMBO EXPRESS -- Afro-Cuban dance music
NOTE: This event will be held at the HOT HOUSE,
1565 N. Milwaukee, Chicago. (At the Damen stop on
the Blue Line). For more info call: 312-907-2189
The Guild Complex presents poet, videographer, and
techmaniac Kurt Heintz featuring videos Vogues with
the War Dead, In Flight Magazine, and excerpts from
Telepoetics. Eric Leonardson performs electro-acoustic
music, or audio art, breaking orthodoxy to produce new
sounds with computer technology, digital sampling,
sequencing, and instruments of his own creation. Tim
W. Brown, author of On Sangamon - a novel on computer
disk, set in a post-industrial Chicago wasteland, read
from his works. Formerly homeless poet, and founder of
the Los Angeles Homeless Writer's Coalition, DINO
performs works concerning the social impact of
technology. Plus an onsite art gallery trip via the
INTERNET, and more. Admission to the Cyber Cabaret is
$5.00. Followed by Mambo Express, Afro-Cuban dance
music, admission $6.00.
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SATURDAY
MARCH 4TH
9:00 am PLENARY #3 MOVING FORWARD, PART 1: Local Initiatives
Alice Palmer (Chair)
Illinois State Senator
Dave Ranney
Center for Urban Economic Development
Lourdes Silva
Comite Latino
Hazel Johnson
People for Community Recovery
Phil Nyden
Policy Research Action Group (Loyola University)
11:00 am WORKSHOPS
Access to Information
Prisons, Police and Their Technology
Developing Our Communities
What Happened to Steel?
Is There a Future in the Software Industry?
Youth, Culture and Survival in a Jobless World
plus: DRIVING LESSONS ON THE INFOBAHN (see Friday pm
above)
plus: GETTING YOUR ORGANIZATION ONLINE (see Friday am
description for more info)
12:30 pm LUNCH
1:00 pm DRIVING LESSONS ON THE INFOBAHN: An Introduction to
the Internet (see Friday pm above)
2:00 pm PLENARY #4: MOVING FORWARD, PART 2: Seizing the Future
Trini Rodriguez (Chair)
Tribuno del Pueblo Editorial Board
Michael Warr
Guild Complex
Carl Davidson
Chicago Coalition for Information Access
Sally Lerner
University of Waterloo
Nelson Peery
National Organizing Committee
4:00 pm CLOSING REMARKS
Abdul Alkalimat
21st Century Books
Also
9:00 am - CRUISIN' THE INFOBAHN: Open Internet use.
5:00 pm See Friday pm above.
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CONFERENCE DETAILS
All events, unless noted otherwise, will be at the Chicago Circle
Center, 750 South Halsted, Chicago.
2 blocks south of the Halsted/UIC CTA stop (Blue Line)
Public parking available across the street.
Conference fee: $20.00 / $5.00 Student & Community / $2.00
Unemployed. Keynote is free and open to public. Plenaries and
Workshops require registration. Register at the conference.
Conference hotel: Quality Inn at Madison and Halsted. Phone: 312-
829-5000. Tell them you are attending the Technology conference at
UIC. This hotel is about 3 blocks from the student union where
most of the conference will be held. There are also lots of hotels
in downtown Chicago, which is less than a mile from campus.
For more information call 312-996-5463 or e-mail to jdav@mcs.com
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To participate in discussions around the conference and conference
issues, join the JOB-TECH mailing list. Send the following
message:
SUBSCRIBE JOB-TECH <your first name> <your last name>
to:
listserv@uic.edu
Visit the Conference Web Page at:
http://cs-www.uchicago.edu/discussions/cpsr/job-tech.html
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CONFERENCE SPONSORS: Center for Urban Economic Development, The
University Library, and the Academic Computer Center at the
University of Illinois at Chicago, Computer Professionals for
Social Responsibility/Chicago, Chicago Coalition for Information
Access, People's Tribune/National Organizing Committee, Policy
Research Action Group, Community Workshop on Economic Development
(partial list). This conference reflects the Great Cities effort
of UIC.
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750 South Halsted, Chicago
March 2 - 4, 1995
Conference Schedule
------------------------------------------------------------------
THURSDAY
MARCH 2
7:30 pm OPENING PLENARY
Jeremy Rifkin
author, _The End of Work: The Decline of the
Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-
Market Era_
------------------------------------------------------------------
FRIDAY
MARCH 3
8:30 am REGISTRATION
9:00 am PLENARY #1: THE FUTURE BEFORE US
Nancy John (Chair)
Assistant University Librarian (UIC)
Ada Lopez (Welcome)
Board of Trustees, University of Illinois
Don Holt
Associate Dean, College of Agriculture
University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign
Thomas DeFanti
Professor of Electrical Engineering and
ComputerScience, University of Illinois - Chicago
Robert Wedgeworth
University Librarian
University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign
Jonathan King
Professor of Molecular Biology
Massachusettes Institute of Technology
11:00 am WORKSHOPS
Access to Education
For Whom the Bell Curves: Racism and the Violence
Initiative
New Technology and Our Workplace
Will Hard Copy Survive? Printing and Publishing in the
Digital Age
High Tech Work: Will Getting the Training Mean
Getting the Job
Let Us Proclaim! Chicago, from Hog Butcher to ... What
We Envision It (Writing Workshop)
plus: GETTING YOUR ORGANIZATION ONLINE: A special
workshop for representatives of community
organizations and non-profits to find out what it
takes to get your organization connected and online.
Presenter: Al Schorsch, Manager, UIC Neighborhoods
and NonProfits Network, at the Center for Urban
Economic Development.
12:30 pm LUNCH
2:00 pm WORKSHOPS
Who is Deciding?
Fighting Back Against the New Poverty
Work and the Global Economy
Plenty to be Done: What New Jobs Should Be Created?
The New Biology
Robots and Political Economy
Plus: DRIVING LESSONS ON THE INFO HIGHWAY: An
introduction to the Internet (Science & Engineering
Lab 2249). This intro will be repeated at 3:00 pm
Plus: CRUISIN' THE INFOBAHN: Open Internet
use (volunteers will be available give directions)
(Science & Engineering Lab 2249). 2:00 - 5:00 pm
4:00 pm PLENARY #2: THE MORNING AFTER: In the Wake of the
Technology Revolution
Wanda White (Chair)
Community Workshop on Economic Development
Richard Hatcher
Former Mayor, Gary, Indiana
Professor of Law, Valparaiso University
John Bentacur
Center for Urban Economic Development (UIC)
Dan Lane
Strike Negotiations Team
Staley Workers (Decatur, Illinois)
General Baker
UAW Veteran Worker/Activist
7:00 pm Cultural Event
TECHNO REVOLT -- A CYBER CABARET
plus
MAMBO EXPRESS -- Afro-Cuban dance music
NOTE: This event will be held at the HOT HOUSE,
1565 N. Milwaukee, Chicago. (At the Damen stop on
the Blue Line). For more info call: 312-907-2189
The Guild Complex presents poet, videographer, and
techmaniac Kurt Heintz featuring videos Vogues with
the War Dead, In Flight Magazine, and excerpts from
Telepoetics. Eric Leonardson performs electro-acoustic
music, or audio art, breaking orthodoxy to produce new
sounds with computer technology, digital sampling,
sequencing, and instruments of his own creation. Tim
W. Brown, author of On Sangamon - a novel on computer
disk, set in a post-industrial Chicago wasteland, read
from his works. Formerly homeless poet, and founder of
the Los Angeles Homeless Writer's Coalition, DINO
performs works concerning the social impact of
technology. Plus an onsite art gallery trip via the
INTERNET, and more. Admission to the Cyber Cabaret is
$5.00. Followed by Mambo Express, Afro-Cuban dance
music, admission $6.00.
------------------------------------------------------------------
SATURDAY
MARCH 4TH
9:00 am PLENARY #3 MOVING FORWARD, PART 1: Local Initiatives
Alice Palmer (Chair)
Illinois State Senator
Dave Ranney
Center for Urban Economic Development
Lourdes Silva
Comite Latino
Hazel Johnson
People for Community Recovery
Phil Nyden
Policy Research Action Group (Loyola University)
11:00 am WORKSHOPS
Access to Information
Prisons, Police and Their Technology
Developing Our Communities
What Happened to Steel?
Is There a Future in the Software Industry?
Youth, Culture and Survival in a Jobless World
plus: DRIVING LESSONS ON THE INFOBAHN (see Friday pm
above)
plus: GETTING YOUR ORGANIZATION ONLINE (see Friday am
description for more info)
12:30 pm LUNCH
1:00 pm DRIVING LESSONS ON THE INFOBAHN: An Introduction to
the Internet (see Friday pm above)
2:00 pm PLENARY #4: MOVING FORWARD, PART 2: Seizing the Future
Trini Rodriguez (Chair)
Tribuno del Pueblo Editorial Board
Michael Warr
Guild Complex
Carl Davidson
Chicago Coalition for Information Access
Sally Lerner
University of Waterloo
Nelson Peery
National Organizing Committee
4:00 pm CLOSING REMARKS
Abdul Alkalimat
21st Century Books
Also
9:00 am - CRUISIN' THE INFOBAHN: Open Internet use.
5:00 pm See Friday pm above.
------------------------------------------------------------------
CONFERENCE DETAILS
All events, unless noted otherwise, will be at the Chicago Circle
Center, 750 South Halsted, Chicago.
2 blocks south of the Halsted/UIC CTA stop (Blue Line)
Public parking available across the street.
Conference fee: $20.00 / $5.00 Student & Community / $2.00
Unemployed. Keynote is free and open to public. Plenaries and
Workshops require registration. Register at the conference.
Conference hotel: Quality Inn at Madison and Halsted. Phone: 312-
829-5000. Tell them you are attending the Technology conference at
UIC. This hotel is about 3 blocks from the student union where
most of the conference will be held. There are also lots of hotels
in downtown Chicago, which is less than a mile from campus.
For more information call 312-996-5463 or e-mail to jdav@mcs.com
------------------------------------------------------------------
To participate in discussions around the conference and conference
issues, join the JOB-TECH mailing list. Send the following
message:
SUBSCRIBE JOB-TECH <your first name> <your last name>
to:
listserv@uic.edu
Visit the Conference Web Page at:
http://cs-www.uchicago.edu/discussions/cpsr/job-tech.html
------------------------------------------------------------------
CONFERENCE SPONSORS: Center for Urban Economic Development, The
University Library, and the Academic Computer Center at the
University of Illinois at Chicago, Computer Professionals for
Social Responsibility/Chicago, Chicago Coalition for Information
Access, People's Tribune/National Organizing Committee, Policy
Research Action Group, Community Workshop on Economic Development
(partial list). This conference reflects the Great Cities effort
of UIC.
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