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Time: March 6, 2013 from 4pm to 6pm
Location: Atlas
City/Town: Boulder, CO
Website or Map: http://www.colorado.edu/atlas…
Phone: cs-colloquia@lists.Colorado.EDU
Event Type: meeting
Organized By: CS Colloquia
Latest Activity: Feb 28, 2013
How technology, analytics & social networking helped secure a reelection:
. Meet the social media engineering team that helped reelect Obama
4-6 p.m. Wednesday, March 6, downstairs ATLAS Black Box theater, lowest basement level, B2
Free and open to the public; reservations recommended.
Reserve your seats - http://ofaatlasstudent.eventbrite.com
Seating is limited and first-come, first-served.
Audience members are advised to arrive at least 10 minutes early.
Engineering team participants (Obama for America) will discuss the strategies and technologies they used to help reelect the president. The team includes: Chris Gansen, Engineering Lead, Dashboard; Jason Kunesh, Director of User Experience and Product; Dylan Richard, Director of Engineering.
Learn more about their work:
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/when-the-nerds-go-marching-in/265325/
http://www.latimes.com/business/ct-biz-1125-brain-pool--20121125,0,5244051,full.story
http://mashable.com/2012/12/26/obama-digital-success/
This event is presented by Silicon Flatirons - CU-Boulder's Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship - and ATLAS Institute.
http://www.siliconflatirons.com/index.php
Directions to ATLAS:
http://www.colorado.edu/atlas/newatlas/about/directions.html
http://www.colorado.edu/campusmap/map.html?bldg=ATLS
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