About the Author
Cyrus Farivar
سیروس فریور
English: [suh-ROOS FAR-ih-var]
Persian: [see-ROOS-eh fàr-ee-VÀR]
Freelance Technology Journalist
Freelance Radio Reporter/Producer
Author, "The Internet of Elsewhere"
cfarivar [at] cfarivar [dot] org
Current location: Oakland, CATwitter
Conferences Archive
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Cyrus speaking in Grand Rapids, MI (Oct. 6, 2009)
Posted on September 13, 2009 | No CommentsI have the honor of speaking at the “Emerging Technologies & Media Mythologies” conference at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich. on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. I’ll be the Tuesday lunchtime speaker, where I’ll be talking about the Iranian Internet, before and after the recent... -
Ars Electronica 2009 – Cloud Intelligence
Posted on September 5, 2009 | No CommentsSo I’ve been so busy with my New York gig that I’ve barely had time to blog, but I’ve been in Linz for the last couple days, working at the Ars Electronica 2009 conference. I’m moderating the cloud computing panels today, which you can watch... -
Liveblogging the CCDCOE conference, Tallinn (Day 2 / June 18)
Posted on June 17, 2009 | No CommentsCCDCOE conference, June 18 Nart Villeneuve, “Tracking GhostNet”: One of our staff has been working with Tibetian communnities for 10 years. Art of investigation: raise more questions than answers. This is good, as we have limitations. Data is hard to come by. Organizations are not... -
Liveblogging the CCDCOE conference, Tallinn (Day 1 / June 17)
Posted on June 16, 2009 | 1 CommentCCDCOE conference, June 17 Kenneth Geers, American representative to CCDCOE: - Even if you took a tank or a jet fighter, you could hardly count the number of processors on it. - Next year US military will have more unmanned than manned aircraft - It’s... -
“A continent, not a crisis” talk slides now available
Posted on April 21, 2009 | No CommentsMy presentation from the Engineers Without Borders Conference in Milwaukee (March 27-28, 2009) is now online. You can view it online here, or download the PowerPoint file (.ppt) here. Everything is made available under a Creative Commons license, naturally. -
May 27: Cyrus to moderate a session at Global Health Conference (DC)
Posted on April 20, 2009 | 1 CommentI’ll be moderating this session on May 27 at the Global Health Conference in Washington, D.C. Transformations: Discovering New Strategies Using Proven Technologies 9-10:30 am The technology evolution is sparking a health-care revolution. The rapid adoption of mobile technology throughout the world, with more than... -
Cyrus to speak at Conference on Cyber Warfare – June 17-19, 2009 (Tallinn)
Posted on March 24, 2009 | 3 CommentsFriends, I’ve just been invited to speak at the Conference on Cyber Warfare, sponsored by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence in Tallinn, Estonia. The topic of my talk will be “‘Web War One’ ? Really? Media Coverage of Cyberattacks.” Wow, it’s such...
