[Linux-aus] Intel Fellow and cultural anthropologist Genevieve Bell to keynote linux.conf.au 2016 Geelong

Tue Jan 12 20:19:01 AEDT 2016

  Intel Fellow and cultural anthropologist Genevieve Bell to keynote
  linux.conf.au 2016 Geelong

Intel Fellow and Vice President of Corporate Strategy at Intel, 
Australian-born Genevieve Bell leads a team of social scientists, 
interaction designers, human factors engineers and computer scientists 
whose mission is to build products in tune with people’s needs and 
desires. An industry expert and commentator on the intersection of 
culture and technology, she has published widely around the societal 
challenges facing us all as computing becomes ubiquitous. An 
accomplished anthropologist and researcher, Bell joined Intel in 1998. 
She has been granted a number of patents for consumer electronics 
innovations throughout her career, with additional patents in the user 
experience space pending, and is the author of numerous journal papers 
and articles. She was named an Intel Fellow in 2008.

In addition to her position at Intel, Bell is a highly regarded industry 
expert and frequent commentator on the intersection of culture and 
technology. She has been featured in publications such as Wired, Forbes, 
The Atlantic, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal and the New York 
Times. She is also a sought-after public speaker and panelist at 
technology conferences worldwide for the insights she has gained from 
extensive international field work and research.

In addition to her position at Intel, Bell is a highly regarded industry 
expert and frequent commentator on the intersection of culture and 
technology. She has been featured in publications such as Wired, Forbes, 
The Atlantic, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal and the New York 
Times. She is also a sought-after public speaker and panelist at 
technology conferences worldwide for the insights she has gained from 
extensive international field work and research.
Her industry recognition includes being listed among the "100 Most 
Creative People in Business" by Fast Company in 2010, induction in the 
Women in Technology International Hall of Fame in 2012, and being 
honored as the 2013 Woman of Vision for Leadership by the Anita Borg 
Institute. Bell's book, "Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology 
in Ubiquitous Computing," written in collaboration with Paul Dourish, 
was published by MIT Press in 2011.
Bell holds a combined bachelor's and master's degree in anthropology 
from Bryn Mawr College and a master's degree and Ph.D. in cultural 
anthropology from Stanford University, where she was a lecturer in the 
anthropology department from 1996 to 1998.

She is attributed with formalising user experience as a discipline, and 
ensuring that its practises are recognised as not just valuable, but 
vital, for ongoing technical success.

Conference 2IC and Speaker Liaison, Kathy Reid, was delighted to 
announce Ms Bell as one of four outstanding keynotes for linux.conf.au 
2016.

“As Linux moves from servers and desktops into embedded hardware, into 
the cloud, into mobile devices, the need for those products to be in 
affinity with user needs becomes ever more important. Genevieve’s area 
of practise is such a natural fit for our conference theme - Life is 
better with Linux - and we can’t wait to learn from Genevieve!”

One of the most respected technical conferences in Australia, Linux 
Conference Australia (linux.conf.au) will make Geelong home between 
1st-5th February 2016. The conference is expected to attract over 500 
national and international professional and hobbyist developers, 
technicians and innovative hardware specialists, and will feature nearly 
100 Speakers and presentations over five days. Deakin University’s 
stunning Waterfront Campus will host the conference, leveraging state of 
the art networking and audio visual facilities.

The conference delivers Delegates a range of presentations and tutorials 
on topics such as open source hardware, open source operating systems 
and open source software, storage, containers and related issues such as 
patents, copyright and technical community development.

Linux <http://linux.org.au>is a computer operating system, in the same 
way that MacOS, Windows, Android and iOS are operating systems. It can 
be used on desktop computers, servers, and increasingly on mobile 
devices such as smartphones and tablets.

Linux embodies the ‘open source’ paradigm of software development, which 
holds that source code – the code that is used to give computers and 
mobile devices functionality – should be ‘open’. That is, the source 
code should be viewable, modifiable and shareable by the entire 
community. There are a number of benefits to the open source paradigm, 
including facilitating innovation, sharing and re-use. The ‘open’ 
paradigm is increasingly extending to other areas such as open 
government, open culture, open health and open education.

Potential Delegates and Speakers are encouraged to remain up to date 
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