Some upcoming events I will be involved in:

Burning Man Decompression, Sunday Oct 12

As I have for the past several years, I will show off my newest giant photographs of Burning Man at the "decompression" party, which takes place from noon to midnight on Sunday, Oct 12 (this coming Sunday) on Indiana St. south of Mariposa in San Francisco.

While decompression won't get you to understand what Burning Man truly is, it's the closest you'll come while staying in the city. Come by, I will be easy to find with the giant photo wall. Come in "playa wear," which means anything out of the ordinary, to get in for only $10.

Meet Jean Bartik, one of the world's first programmers

The world's first software team was a group of six women recruited to program the ENIAC. Jean Bartik was one of those six, and is giving a talk at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View on October 22 at 7pm. Prior to the talk, I am helping with a special VIP reception where you can meet Bartik, and see clips of a documentary-in-progress being done about the six earliest programmers. The producer is my friend Kathy Kleiman who needs financial contributions to complete the documentary. Unfortunately 3 of the women are now gone, but video interviews were made with them for this documentary.

If you would like to attend the VIP reception, send me a note.

Convergence conference on the Future

Foresight Institute, of which I am a director, is one of the organizations sponsoring Convergence 08 a futurist gathering with both scheduled debates on issues in AI, synthetic biology and longevity. Then there's an unconference component where the attendees make the program. I'll deliver my robot car talk, with video. This takes place the weekend of November 15, and Foresight Institute Senior Associates are also all invited.

On a side note, while I won't be there as I will be at Alternative Party in Finland, on Oct 25, Futurists can also attend (at a higher price) this year's Singularity Summit in San Jose.

eComm

Further in the calendar, check out eComm a conference on emerging telephony. This conference took up the mantle from the O'Reilly conference on the same topic, and now takes the mantle of the recently deceased VON conference. To find out what's happening in VoIP and not-plain-old-telephone-service, check it out in early March of 09. I'll be speaking on the EFF's battle with AT&T over wiretapping and what it means for the new generation of telephony.