Roger Malina is a space scientist and astronomer, and currently a Distinguished Professor of Art and Technology, and Professor of Physics, at the University of Texas at Dallas and Directeur de Recherche, for the CNRS in France. He founded the ArtSciLab at UT Dallas. In 2012-13 Malina chaired the National Science Foundation funded study "Steps to an Ecology of Networked Knowledge and Innovation". He previously served as director of the Observatoire Astronomique of Marseille and was NASA Principal Investigator for a project at the University of California, Berkeley. Malina is an elected member of the International Academy of Astronautics. He has served on the Comite National of the French CNRS for Astronomy and on the French National Commission on Cosmology. He has received a number of prizes and awards including the International Academy of Astronautics Social Sciences Award, several NASA Public Service Awards, "Laser d'or " Prize, from the International Video Art Organization. Since 1982 he has served as Executive Editor of the Leonardo Publications at MIT Press. He is Chairman Emeritus of Leonardo ISAST (International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology).

Manual creation of massive and detailed 3D models may take weeks, or months, even for experienced artists. In contrast, generative algorithms enable efficiently creating content coherent with the reality, as long as the representations are good approximations of the real world. In this talk, I will introduce "proceduralization" to discover such generative representations from 2D and 3D data for synthesis, modeling, and reconstruction; combining computer vision, machine learning, and computational geometry approaches. I will briefly introduce geometry processing algorithms to discover artistic elements, and grammar discovery methods to extract procedural rules. The rest of the talk will be devoted to proceduralization applications for content creation, interactive editing, localization, mapping, and reconstruction. I will conclude by some new directions in geometric deep learning for generative models.

Transnational Play approaches gameplay as a set of practices and a global industry that includes diverse participation from players and developers located within the global South, in nations outside of the First World. Players experience play in game cafes, through casual games for regional and global causes like environmentalism, through piracy and cheats, via cultural localization, on their mobile phones, and through urban playful art in Latin America. This book offers a reorientation of perspective on the global developers who make games, as well as the players who consume games, while still acknowledging geographically distributed socioeconomic, racial, gender, and other inequities. Over the course of the inquiry, which includes a chapter dedicated to the cartography of the mobile augmented reality game Pok‚mon Go, the author develops a theoretical line of argument critically informed by gender studies and intersectionality, postcolonialism, geopolitics, and game studies, problematizing play as a diverse and contested transnational domain.

Margot Gerritsen is Professor of Energy Resources Engineering, Senior Fellow of the Precourt Institute for Energy, and former Director of the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University. For a number of years she was the Senior Associate Dean for Educational Affairs in the School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences. She is also the co-founder of the global Women in Data Science www.widsconference.org and the host of the WiDS podcasts. Her primary interest is computational mathematics, including search algorithm design and matrix computations, computer simulation and mathematical analysis of engineering and natural processes, and including applications to sustainability, and renewable and fossil energy production. She is also active in coastal ocean dynamics and yacht design.