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Michael Chorost

Washington, D.C.
Websitemichaelchorost.com
Author of two books, REBUILT (a memoir of getting a cochlear implant) and WORLD WIDE MIND (a thought experiment about technologically mediated mindreading.) Articles in Wired, New Scientist, Chron Higher Ed, and other places. Writing my third book now, a science fiction novel about three misfit graduate students who have to try to learn the language of a civilization of social insect colonies.
Saturday, May 26
 

10:00am

Sci-Fi Languages, Dialects, and Slang  Woodrow Wilson D

11:00am

In Saturn's Rings with NASA! A Journey for IMAX theaters  Annapolis 3 Humans, Cyborgs, Androids: Companions in the Exploration of Other Worlds  Annapolis 4

12:00pm

The Future According to David Brin  Woodrow Wilson A

1:00pm

Faith and Reason: Can Science Fiction Encompass Both?  Woodrow Wilson D

2:00pm

The 50th Anniversary of 2001: A Space Odyssey  Annapolis 3 Comparative Alien Anatomy  Annapolis 4

3:00pm

Cyborfication and Memetic Warfare  Annapolis 4

4:00pm

Movie: 2001: A Space Odyssey  Annapolis 3

5:30pm

EV Cocktail Hour, open to all!  Woodrow Wilson B

6:30pm

Escape Velocity Keynote, Film Awards, and Fashion Show/Costume Competition Awards  Woodrow Wilson A
 
Sunday, May 27
 

9:00am

The National Science Foundation’s Night of the Living Limb- How Bioengineering Can Solve the Zombie Apocalypse Problem  Baltimore 3

11:00am

The Hunt for Groot: Astrobiology at NASA  Woodrow Wilson B

12:00pm

Artificial Bodies in Contemporary Media  Annapolis 4 6 Blind Men, or How Will we Know Life on Other Planets?  Woodrow Wilson D

1:00pm

Disability in Science Fiction  Woodrow Wilson D

2:00pm

Why Are They Spiritual Machines? AI and Religion  Woodrow Wilson D

3:00pm

Transtemporal and Transdimensional Worlds  Woodrow Wilson D