Toronto Girl Geek Dinner: Leigh Honeywell on Disclosure Matters: Learning to Listen to Security Researchers When: Monday, January 25th, 2010
Time: 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Where: Fionn MacCools (181 University Ave at Adelaide) (map)
Fee: $10.00 (This nominal fee holds your spot and will pay for your first drink.)
TGGD #18: Leigh Honeywell on Disclosure Matters: Learning to Listen to Security Researchers
Leigh Honeywell is a jane of many trades. She works as a Malware Operations Engineer at Symantec while finishing up a degree at the University of Toronto. By night (and sometimes over lunch) she is a co-founder and director of HackLab.TO, Toronto's hacker space. She also serves on the board of advisors of the SECtor security conference, is a Google Summer of Code mentor, as well as an avid cyclist, book nerd, and traveller. (Bio via: Pycon 2010)
Leigh will give us a brief overview of her career thus far, and offer some insights into success, failure and lessons learned. Then she's going to give us a talk relevant to any company or organization which produces software or has a public-facing website. When security researchers discover bugs which impact the confidentiality, availability, or integrity of data, they are faced with a tough challenge: how to get information to the right people, and ensure that things get fixed or mitigated so that users are protected. Drawing on lessons from the free and open source software communities, Leigh will talk about how hackers (the good kind!) wish you'd deal with security vulnerability disclosure.
More TGGD Details:
The formal portion of the program kicks off at 7:00. Folks usually gather between 6:00 and 7:00. Meals/drinks are cash & carry. We charge a $10.00 fee to sign up for the event. This money will be directly allocated to your first drink at dinner. If you sign up to attend, please come. Our events frequently sell out and we have many people on the wait list. If you can't attend, please change your RSVP asap so that it opens the door to others who might want to join us.
Toronto Girl Geek Dinner: The Semantic Web and Artificial Intelligence
When: Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
Time: 6:30pm - 10:00pm
Where: Fionn MacCools (181 University Ave at Adelaide) (map) Fee: $10.00 (This nominal fee holds your spot and will pay for your first drink.)
TGGD #17: Dr. Sheila McIlraith, Computer Science, University of Toronto
What is the Semantic web and how will it change our lives and how we use the Internet? How far off is Artificial Intelligence - the stuff of dreams, books and movies? What type of research is happening in the robotics field right in our own city?
We are pleased to welcome Dr. Sheila McIlraith, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, as our featured speaker for our final Toronto Girl Geek Dinner of 2009.
As our guest speaker, Sheila will touch upon the following topics:
cognitive robotics -- creating thinking robots
what cognitive robotics has to do with the semantic web
some of the long-term societal influences of AI research
Sheila McIlraith is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto. Prior to joining U of T, Prof. McIlraith spent six years as a Research Scientist at Stanford University, and one year at Xerox PARC. McIlraith's research is in the area of knowledge representation and reasoning. She has 10 years of industrial R&D experience developing artificial intelligence applications. McIlraith is the author of over 50 scholarly publications. She is an associate editor of the journal Artificial Intelligence and past program co-chair of the International Semantic Web Conference. McIlraith's early work on Semantic Web Services has had notable impact. Her research has also made practical contributions to the development of next-generation NASA space systems and to emerging Web standards.
We're also really thankful for our awesome sponsor Hover. Check them out at Hover.com for your Domain and Email needs.
What's the Semantic web?
Here are two examples to get you thinking:
Hunch is a decision-engine designed to take our question responses and calibrate them. It is a teaching engine that gets smarter the more your share your responses. Who knows where that will lead us!
Or, take this new beta project by Xtranormal which allows simple instructions to build animation. Creating this web content is very intuitive and is just steps away anticipating your style or your content needs.
More TGGD Details:
The formal portion of the program kicks off at 7:00. Folks usually gather between 6:00 and 7:00. Meals/drinks are cash & carry. We charge a $10.00 fee to sign up for the event. This money will be directly allocated to your first drink at dinner. If you sign up to attend, please come. Our events frequently sell out and we have many people on the wait list. If you can't attend, please change your RSVP asap so that it opens the door to others who might want to join us.
There was certainly no shortage of stimulating conversation, interesting perspectives and opinions at this TGGD event. The panel discussed an incredible variety of topics such as:
The importance of reaching cultural audiences
Content producers as collaborators
Journalists as content curators
Hype versus reality, particularly when it comes to social media
The struggle to be a trusted news source while incorporating user-generated content
What applications such as Facebook Connect mean for how users engage with content online
The role of marketers in the social media landscape
Digital and information literacy
One only has to check out the TGGD hashtag on Twitter to get a sense of the breadth and depth of the conversation going on at this event. The audience and the panel engaged with one another, the result of which was an incredibly dynamic and frank discussion about such an all-encompassing topic.
If you were at the event last night, lets us know what topics you'd like to see covered in a potential 'Part 2' of this discussion.
Thanks to our event sponsor Hover – head on over to hover.com for all of your domain name registration needs. Keep your eyes peeled for the next TGGD event!
Wow, the Toronto Girl Geek Dinner on November 9th is close to sold out. We're very delighted you're joining us for the panel discussion on "The Future of Media".
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We look forward to seeing everyone out at the event:
A reminder, if you can't make it, please change your RSVP (at least 48 hours in advance), so a Girl Geek on the waiting list can come in your place. We cannot do refunds after that point. If the Meet-up group is full, do check back as folks tend to change availability closer to the date.
