Devin Chalmers
Devin Chalmers
Independent- Website: http://doormouse.org/
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Biography
Hobbyist programmer from a tender age, web developer since 1999, iOS freelancer and Reed graduate in math and philosophy since 2008 currently residing on Manhattan. Presented on citizen code at OSB 2010, active in the academic artificial life community, dabbler. Interested in making simple things well.
Open Source Bridge 2011
Sessions for this user
* Control Emacs with Your Beard: the All-Singing All-Dancing Intro to Hacking the Kinect
See! The Amazing Future of Human-Computer Interaction! Behold! The Awesome Power of Open-Source Libraries and Cheap Video-Game Accessories! Fake Beards!
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Hacks |
| Devin Chalmers, Greg Borenstein | |
* The Big Data Exploratorium: Data Mining, from Patents to Memes
Learn to use simple natural language processing and graph analysis tools in Python and R to explore the structure of the dataverse. From Reddit to the USPTO to Google Books, come try some data hacks!
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Cooking |
| Noah Pepper, Devin Chalmers | |
Open Source Bridge 2010
Sessions for this user
* HyperCard 2010: Why Johnny Can't Code (and What We Can Do About It)
Thomas Jefferson envisioned a nation of self-sufficient citizen farmers; programmers like Alan Kay and Bill Atkinson tried to help us code as easily as we might hang a poster on the wall. What happened to the HyperCard ideal? Have we settled for consumption over creation? I will explore the question through a case study, surveying the state of citizen programming in 2010 — from CouchApps to Shoes to plain-jane HTML5+JS to HyperCard 2.4 — and try to convince all comers that realizing the dream of the citizen coder is vital to continuing the ideals of open source.
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Culture |
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