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Kara Walker RISD 2015 Commencement Alumni Address

presented by Kara Walker

I came with the intention of speaking about my experience at RISD and wishing President Somerson a good tenure here, but all I could write on my sketchbook page was “blank page.” I wrote “tabula rasa.” I wrote “a clean slate.” And I wrote those words several times, and I realized as I was writing them that that’s how I arrived at RISD.

What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World

presented by Foster Young, Sara Hendren

In ten years of doing research and collaborations and being mentored, I’ve learned to see disabled people as doing the most creative work that is also the most urgent work of body meeting world. And I think it’s really critical to keep both of these things closely together.

The Reality of Racial Bias

presented by Phillip Atiba Goff

I want to talk to you just a little bit about how the science of racism, how racism actually functions, can bring a little bit of hope to these difficult issues, without even needing to be especially political. And better than that, how the science of racism can lead to some actionable solutions to these seemingly impossible problems.

The Breakdown: Daphne Keller Explains the Communications Decency Act

presented by Daphne Keller, Oumou Ly

The key thing that Congress realized…was that if you want platforms to moderate, you need to give them both of those immunities. You can’t just say, “You’re free to moderate, go do it,” you have to also say, “And, if you undertake to moderate but you miss something and there’s you know, defamation still on the platform or whatever, the fact that you tried to moderate won’t be held against you.”

2019 Internet Hall of Fame Inductee Interviews: Adiel Akplogan

presented by Adiel Akplogan

One of the key challenges is the language barrier. In Africa there are three major languages spoken, or used in professional environments: French, English, some Portuguese. And trying to bring the community from all those different language backgrounds to focus on a project like AFRINIC was hard.

2019 Internet Hall of Fame Inductee Interviews: On Behalf of Suguru Yamaguchi

presented by Hiroshi Esaki, Rui Takita, Suguru Yamaguchi

He’s a founding member of the WIDE Project that is the initiating R&D and business of the Internet in Japan, as well as collaborating with global partners in order to make the Internet the real infrastructure for everyone.

2019 Internet Hall of Fame Inductee Interviews: Michael Stanton

presented by Michael Stanton

This is something which we believe has to be stressed, that there are users which cannot be served by the commercial networks at the moment at a decent price. Everything eventually comes down to price and the idea of being able to have aggregated networks which can be used by high-performance users as well as the less-aggressive people, if you like, can be built and operated economically if you have the right conditions.

Computer, Stop
Why Star Trek only goes so far and we need to try harder than science fiction

presented by Dan Hon

Star Trek’s vision of a voice interface to computing was and remains incredibly compelling. So much to the extent that about three years ago, Amazon included “Computer” as a wake word to the Echo so that we can pretend to talk to the first mass-market voice assistant as if we’re on a spaceship in the 24^th century.

2019 Internet Hall of Fame Inductee Interviews: Larry Irving

presented by Larry Irving

None of us predicted YouTube, none of us predicted Facebook, none of us predicted Twitter, none of us predicted so many things we take for granted today. I’m not gonna get in the guessing game anymore. What I do think is, the more people of good intentions get involved in this, the more this becomes about people and less about profit, the better off we’ll be.

2019 Internet Hall of Fame Inductee Interviews: Klaas Wierenga

presented by Klaas Wierenga

I was getting a bit annoyed with the fact that I was traveling to universities all over the country and always had to go through all kinds of trouble to get online. You may not know this but back in the time you would have to register your MAC address at the IT center of the university or get a card to stick into your laptop. And it was such a hassle and I thought, but why?