Ben Shneiderman on 'Leonardo's Laptop' - London

Ben Shneiderman, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, will be discussing his new book which imagines what Leonardo would have created with today's technologies. The talk will be followed by an in conversation between Shneiderman and journalist Nico Macdonald, an audience discussion, and a reception. The evening will be introduced by Gresham College Professor of Geometry Harold Thimbleby.

Where: Barnard's Inn Hall, Gresham College, Holborn, London EC1N 2HH (nearest tube: Chancery Lane)
Cost: £10 in advance, £15 on the door
Booking: Call (020) 7269 9234 or email Sandy.Starr@spiked-online.com

Shneiderman's forthcoming book, 'Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies' (MIT Press, October 2002), re-states a broad agenda for the application of computing in society. He presents issues whose scope and significance have been obscured for most of the last decade, and imagines what one of the great minds of the Renaissance would have created with our wonderful information technologies.

Additionally Shneiderman challenges hardware and software developers to build products that better support human needs and goals (shifting focus from what computers can do to what users can do) and that are usable at any bandwidth. He proposes new computing applications in education, medicine, business, and government, and explores the computer's potential to support creativity, consensus-seeking, and conflict resolution.

Further information about 'Leonardo's Laptop', which will be on sale at the event for £13.00 (list price £16.50), can be found at:
http://mitpress.mit.edu/leonardoslaptop

This event is part of a series entitled 'Information Technology: Prospects and barriers'. The series, produced by spiked in partnership with Hill & Knowlton and the M3 Research Lab, runs until the end of October.

Associated Link: spiked-IT | events | Information Technology: Prospects and barriers

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