[TriLUG] 2/5 3:30 EFF's Cory Doctorow at UNC

Jeremy Portzer jeremyp at pobox.com
Tue Feb 3 12:17:27 EST 2004


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From: Paul Jones <pjones at metalab.unc.edu>
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Subject: [Inet-announce] 2/5 3:30 EFF's Cory Doctorow at UNC
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 10:12:55 -0500

Please come and please forward as appropriate.
Paul

What:  A Public Talk on the Electronic Frountier Foundation and Copyright
When:  Thursday February 5 at 3:30
Where: Wilson Library's Pleasants Family Room, UNC-CH

Cory Doctorow is Outreach Coordinator for EFF. He's one of EFF's
spokespeople, works on policy research and participates in standards
bodies, and works to enlist the support of other organizations in EFF's
issues. In a previous life, he was a software entrepreneur, co-founding a
company called OpenCola. At the 2000 Hugo Awards, Cory Doctorow won the
John W. Campbell Award for best new science fiction writer. His first
novel, "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" was recently published by Tor
Books. His second novel, "Eastern Standard Tribe," is due out March 1,
2004. He is co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing and is a frequent
contributor to Wired Magazine and the O'Reilly Network. He enjoys googling
for interesting facts about long walks on the beach.

This just in: Cory Doctorow's short story "0wnz0red" is a finalist for the 
Nebula Award in Science Fiction.

Cory's books include:

Doctorow, Cory. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Tor Books. December 
 2003. Also online at http://craphound.com/down/
Doctorow, Cory. Eastern Standard Tribe. Tor Books. March, 2004.
Doctorow, Cory and Schroeder, Karl. Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing 
 Science Fiction. Alpha Books. 2000.
Doctorow, Cory. A Place So Foreign and Eight More. Four Walls Eight 
 Windows. October 2003. Also online at http://craphound.com/place/
Powers, Shelley (editor) with Doctorow, Cory et al. Essential Blogging. 
 O'Reilly and Associates. September 2002.
 
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