Nathan Nichols
Talks

I've gotten to present my work in a variety of different venues. Below is a list of them (some with videos!) presented in loose chronological order.

I went back to my alma mater, DePauw University, to give a guest lecture to an HCI course in February 2009. My former advisor, Dave Berque, was nice enough to invite me, and it was a really great chance to be able to look back over my grad student career and try to draw out some general themes (which ended up being organized as a list of mistakes I've made.) The talk was originally done in DyKnow, which is a really excellent electronic whiteboard/note-taking application that was originally developed by Dave at DePauw (and I got to work on as an undergrad.) A PDF version is available here.

We have shown News at Seven at WiRED's NextFest, a sort of modern day tech-focused World's Fair, in 2007 and 2008. NextFest is really nice because there is a huge, diverse audience. Some of the people you chat with run major venture capital firms in the Bay, and some are grandmothers taking their grandkids around on a Saturday afternoon.

In August of 2008, I went to Cardiff, Wales to present Pivot at the Next-Generation Mobile Applications, Services, and Technology 2008 conference. I met a lot of exceedingly smart people doing really cool things in the mobile space, and Pivot got a great response. A PDF version of my talk is available.

In February 2008, I was invited to be on a panel at the Computational Journalism conference at Georgia Tech University. The panel was titled Information Mahsups: Aggregation, Syndication, and Web Services and I was there to talk about News at Seven. The conference was a really interesting mix of "journalists interested in technology" and "technologists interested in journalism." The journalists liked News at Seven, which was a bit of a relief because that isn't always the reaction we get when showing it to people in the news space. You can see a video of the talk here by clicking the Videos link, then clicking CNJ Panel Talk.