| In this Issue- Tales of the Creation of the Video Game Industry
- Screening Eye Disease in Rural Nepal: Seminar, Music with Dr. Suman Thapa
- Environmental Exposure: Photography and Ecology after 1970
- Ocean Legacy: How the international community adopted the world's largest marine protected area in the Ross Sea, Antarctica
- BEAM Creative Industries Associate - 2017/18 Academic Year
- Research Intern - Emerging Technologies and Business Innovation
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| Tales of the Creation of the Video Game Industry
Allan Alcorn, Tales of the Creation of the Video Game Industry. Before Pong there were several attempts at using electronics with some kind of display to play games. Most prominent was Steve Russell’s Spacewar! but it only ran on a PDP 1 so only computer scientist could play it. Atari was formed to create a new kind of arcade amusement machine that used digital computer technology to deliver a new, cost effective form of entertainment to the public. Pong’s immediate success allowed Atari to grow rapidly and create a new industry that is very healthy today. I will talk about the many challenges we had to overcome to create a viable business from financing a new company to dealing with regulatory issues that threatened to shut us down. I will talk about the constraints that the technology placed on us and how those constraints led to creative solutions. Read more.
Tuesday, May 30, 2017 | 12:00PM-1:30PM | SAPP Center, Room 114
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Screening Eye Disease in Rural Nepal: Seminar, Music with Dr. Suman Thapa With over 80% of Nepal’s population living in rural areas, patients are often required to travel hundreds of miles for a brief visit with a physician. Invented by Stanford researchers, Paxos Scope is a universal adapter that converts any smartphone into an easy-to-use ophthalmic camera. This presentation will discuss the results of this novel way to screen for eye diseases by applying tele-ophthalmology on the existing infrastructure of eye care in a country challenged by a harsh geographic terrain and limited human resources. **With music to follow** Suman is a singer-songwriter and has composed several songs based on places visited and life experiences. His group, Suman & The Blue Frets, plays contemporary blues that incorporates the ethnic Nepalese instrument called the ‘Sarangi’, along with piano, cello, and guitar. Join us after the talk for a performance! Read more. Tuesday, May 30, 2017 | 5:00PM-6:30PM | Li Ka Shing Center, Room 120
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| Environmental Exposure: Photography and Ecology after 1970
Environmental Exposure: Photography and Ecology after 1970 draws on photographic prints and slides from the 1970s to explore a transformative moment in the visual culture of American environmentalism. Rejecting romantic myths of the unspoiled wilderness, photographers such as Lewis Baltz and Frank Gohlke presented depersonalized images of a “man-altered” American landscape, exploring tensions between nature, development and decay.
Exhibition curator, Michael Metzger, Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Curatorial Research Assistant and PhD candidate in the Department of Art & Art History, will discuss how a variety of American photographers sought new visual languages to address the urgent questions of energy use, waste and pollution, reflecting the changes in our environment and in our understanding of our place within it. Please join Michael Metzger after his talk at a reception from 7 - 7:30PM on the Geballe Balcony (Second Floor) of the Cantor Arts Center. Read more. Thursday, June 1, 2017 | 6:00PM-7:30PM | Cantor Arts Center Auditorium
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| Ocean Legacy: How the international community adopted the world's largest marine protected area in the Ross Sea, Antarctica Cassandra Brooks, Stanford University, I’ve worked in marine science and public outreach for more than fifteen years. My writing and research focuses on marine resource management worldwide, from local New England Rivers to the remote reaches of Antarctica. I've just completed a PhD with the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources at Stanford University studying international ocean policy with a focus on the process of marine protection in the Antarctic. Read more about Cassandra
John Weller is a critically acclaimed photographer, writer and filmmaker based in Boulder, Colorado. Nature photography has been his passion since childhood, and after graduating from Stanford University with a degree in Economics, John began pursuing media full time. He spent two years in California working for photographer William Neill and then moved home to Colorado, where he fell in love with Great Sand Dunes National Park. For one week of every month over more than three years, he walked with a 120-pound pack deep into the extraordinary landscape. With each trip, he further understood interconnections within the ecosystem, including his own. His goal solidified to communicate the value of pristine places, reminding people we are part of the same living system. Read more about John Friday, June 2, 2017 | 12:00PM-1:00PM | Hopkins Marine Station
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| BEAM Creative Industries Associate - 2017/18 Academic Year The BEAM, Stanford Career Education Associate Program is comprised of current undergraduate or graduate students who will represent and support the industry interests of Stanford University students. Associates are the pulse of the student body at BEAM. The Creative Industries Associate will focus their efforts on supporting students and working with employers in industries such as Arts, Media, Entertainment, Sports, Marketing, Advertising, Public Relations, Fashion, Retail, Food, and Travel.
Associates will have direct contact with employers and alumni in these industries and will gain skills in speaking with recruiters as well as professionals in their field. This is an amazing opportunity to develop valuable professional experience during the academic year. Read more.
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| Canon Research Intern - Emerging Technologies and Business Innovation
Canon Information and Imaging Solutions (CIIS), located in San Jose, CA, is seeking a student intern to help monitor and document emerging trends in Silicon Valley. Candidates must be active, enrolled students, available in March and continuing possibly through end of year. The intern will help research and synthesize information into reports related to emerging technologies and business models in a wide variety of product and market sectors. This ongoing research project assists multiple Canon groups in their pursuit of technology partnerships, engineering investigations, and in planning future solutions for the office, medical and imaging markets. Read more.
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