Think Tank


Programme



FRIDAY, 27 July
17:00 Arrivals Meet at the Queen Mother Building
Evening Meal from 18:00


SATURDAY, 28 July
Time Topic
08.30 Registration
09.00 Welcome
09.15 Session 1: Keynote
Jinny Storr (Shirley McNaughton)

10.00 Session 2: Bliss as a Language
Ann Sutton: A reflection on the relationship of Blissymbolics with natural languages and picture based systems
11.00 Tea/Coffee
11.30 Session 3: Bliss as a Language
Sally Millar: tba
12.30 LUNCH
13.45 Session 4: Bliss as a Language
David McNaughton: Adoption of Blissymbolics and Diffusion of Innovations
14.50 Tea/Coffee
15.10 Session 5: Character sets / Fonts
Michael Everson: The Blissymbols Character Set and Font - Writing in the language of Bliss
16.15 Session 6: Character sets / Fonts
George Sutton: Blissymbolics: Path to the Future
17.15 Close of day
19.00 Ceilidh & Meal All Souls’
Church Hall
The Phenobarbitones Band
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SUNDAY, 29 July
Time Topic
08.30 Registration
09.00 Introduction to Day 2
09.00 Session 7: Technology/Fonts
Peter Watson: Font Development
10.00 Session 8: Applications
David MacKay: Bliss-Dasher - Efficient semantic writing with any muscle.
You might want to watch a general-purpose Dasher presentation on Google Video to get a better idea about what is going on in Dasher. Click here to open another window with the presentation.
11.00 Tea/Coffee
11.30 Session 9: Bliss and the WWW
Russell Galvin: How BCI can help overcome technological barriers to Blissymbolics Usage on the Internet
12.30 LUNCH
13.45 Session 10: Concept Coding
Andy Judson: The Internet and Concept Coding Framework
14.50 Tea/Coffee
15.10 Session 11:
Mats Lundälv: Blissymbolics - a Bridge to Communication
16.10 Session 12: The Way Forward
tba
17.00 Close of day
17.30 Walk along Tay River (Discovery Quay & Docks)
Followed by Chinese Buffet

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