San Mateo Marriott - Connect 3
Sessions
1:30 PM
1:30 PM
- The Price of Immortality San Mateo Marriott - Connect 3
- 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
4:30 PM
4:30 PM
- AI Characters: Faves and Flops San Mateo Marriott - Connect 3
- 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- From Marvin to Data to Vision, who are some of the most interesting AI/robot characters? Who are some of the worst? What types of conflicts plague ...
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Keeping Our Children Involved San Mateo Marriott - Connect 3
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- Telling Good Science from Bad San Mateo Marriott - Connect 3
- 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- There are all kinds of bad science out there — simple errancy (cold fusion), crackpottery (HIV doesn't cause AIDS), fraud (vaccines cause autism), ...
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- Whatever Happened to the FFWs? San Mateo Marriott - Connect 3
- 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Back in the 1980s, critics and fans of SF sneered that fantasy writing was only for "girls", while "men" preferred SF. Then epic fantasy became rea...
2:30 PM
2:30 PM
- 10th Expeditionary Force Meeting San Mateo Marriott - Connect 3
- 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Is Friendship Ever Artificial? San Mateo Marriott - Connect 3
- 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- If you can't tell whether a virtual or online entity is "real" or not, does it matter? Suppose you make a friend online and then discover that your...
5:30 PM
5:30 PM
- Come Time Travel With Me San Mateo Marriott - Connect 3
- 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Come Time Travel with Me: The New Wave of science fiction begins!!Blast back to March 1964: Camelot has ended in a hail of gunfire; southea...
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
- Super Awesome Advice Panel! San Mateo Marriott - Connect 3
- 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Artistic Solutions Board of Directors Meeting San Mateo Marriott - Connect 3
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- Spontaneous Story San Mateo Marriott - Connect 3
- 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- Of Their Time San Mateo Marriott - Connect 3
- 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Studios and writers have been working to find new ways to inject life into 19th and 20th century franchises that depended on a cultural ignorance w...
2:30 PM
2:30 PM
- How Many Coins Would You Insert? San Mateo Marriott - Connect 3
- 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Our convention theme is "Insert Coin to Continue," so how much are you willing to pay to be entertained? Ten bucks lets you watch a movie that cost...
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Service is the Reward: When Recognition Leads to Toxic Expectations San Mateo Marriott - Connect 3
- 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Many fan groups offer awards to their members for work within the organization. This panel discusses how to avoid the pitfalls of doing something j...
8:30 PM
8:30 PM
- The Future Of Sex: A Discussion About the Possibilities San Mateo Marriott - Connect 3
- 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Ebooks, Audio, and Good Old Fashioned Paper San Mateo Marriott - Connect 3
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- How many hundreds of books do you keep in boxes? And yet, does your heart belong to e-books? If yes, why? If no, why not? Is there a future for mix...
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- Urban Legends in Science San Mateo Marriott - Connect 3
- 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Salt causes high blood pressure. We only use 10% of our brains. Vaccines cause autism. Where does this stuff come from, and why do these fallacies ...
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- Tales from the Lab San Mateo Marriott - Connect 3
- 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Those who've done lab/field/real-world testing of science or engineering share their more memorable stories of things that went right, wrong, or ju...