CACTUS Meeting Schedule and Map

CACTUS meets on the third Thursday of each month at The University of Texas' Applied Research Labs (UT:ARL) in the JJ Jake Pickle Research Campus (JJ PRC) in Austin, Texas. We'll meet in the main auditorium located directly behind the guard's desk and main lobby. The program starts at 7:00pm with refreshments served at 6:30pm.

2004 Meeting Schedule

January 15 Elections. Randy Zagar on electronic voting technology February 19 Joe Barr on "Open Source in Austin and Texas." March 18 Siva Vaidhyanathan on "Copyright and Intellectual Property"

Meeting Location

Please do not show up earlier than 6:20 pm on the specified day. Enter through the main entrance at 10000 Burnet Road for Applied Research Laboratories of the University of Texas (ARL:UT) Tell the guard that you are there for the CACTUS meeting. You will be required to sign a log book, but not required to wear a badge. The guards will direct you to the auditorium entrance.

Limited parking in the front of the building is available, but more extensive parking is available in the large parking lot just north of the ARL building on the J.J. Pickle Research Campus (JJ PRC). After 6:30 pm, all entrances to the JJ PRC, except for the Burnet Road entrance (Read Granberry) are closed and locked. You can still enter the parking lot in front of the ARL building. No parking tags are necessary after 6:00 pm. See map for further details.

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Program Subjects

March 18	The topic of the meeting will be Copyright and Intellectual Property. Our presenter will be Siva Vaidhyanathan, a noted author on intellectual property and the creative culture. I.P. issues are becoming increasingly important for computer professionals, because they affect our ability to create and innovate both within the I.T. community and our culture as a whole. In addition to being the author of "Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity", and "The Anarchist in the Library", Dr. Vaidhyanathan has also written for The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times Magazine, MSNBC.COM, Salon.com, openDemocracy.net, and The Nation. Dr. Vaidhyanathan is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and currently is the Director of the undergraduate program for Communication Studies in Culture and Communication at New York University.

March 18

The topic of the meeting will be Copyright and Intellectual Property. Our presenter will be Siva Vaidhyanathan, a noted author on intellectual property and the creative culture. I.P. issues are becoming increasingly important for computer professionals, because they affect our ability to create and innovate both within the I.T. community and our culture as a whole.

In addition to being the author of "Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity", and "The Anarchist in the Library", Dr. Vaidhyanathan has also written for

The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times Magazine, MSNBC.COM, Salon.com, openDemocracy.net, and The Nation.

Dr. Vaidhyanathan is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and currently is the Director of the undergraduate program for Communication Studies in Culture and Communication at New York University.

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