June Geek Dinner Wed. the 20th 5:30-9pm at AS220 Featuring Public Display’s First Public Demo
Posted by Jack

Wednesday, June 20, 2007, 5:30pm – 9pm+
AS220
115 Empire Street, Providence, RI
I know a lot of you have been looking forward to this one – Wednesday’s dinner will feature a presentation by the Providence Geeks regulars of Public Display!
Public Display, a Providence-based startup, has embarked on a research-intensive technology project with the mission of collecting various kinds of unstructured information from the Web and organizing it into a structured and useful format. During the presentation, we’ll learn a bit about the field of Information Extraction, witness the first public demonstration of one of their apps, and hear about some lessons learned in their attack of this extraordinarily difficult problem – including some geek-speak about Ruby and Mozilla’s Gecko rendering engine.
The folks at Public Display are no strangers to the start-up scene with many team members having started companies of their own in the past. Bill O’Farrell, CEO, has had a number of successes in the software world including SpeechWorks, a speech-recognition software company which went public in 2000.
Please RSVP in the comments section of this post so that we can give the good folks at AS220 an estimated headcount. And while you’re at it, subscribe to Providence Geeks’ RSS feed (see sidebar) and/or join our very-low-volume email announcement list (for the announcement list, send an email to Jack Templin, jtemplin over at Gmail with your name and affiliation).
As always, for first-timers here are the details on the Geek Dinners:
- It’s totally casual. Wear whatever, bring whoever, arrive and vamoose whenever… And don’t worry about eating or not – come famished or full – eating is optional, and frankly, the least of the festivities (that’s not say the food isn’t good—it’s actually great).
- Topics of conversation will vary as they will at any gathering of geeks, but many of us will be talking about AJAX, mash-ups, start-ups, new devices, innovative business models, interaction design, social computing, digital art, web services, etc. etc. etc.
- Food and beverages are for sale at the adjoining Taqueria Pacifica and bar.
- There is WiFi so bring your connected device of choice.
June 14th, 2007 09:16
Yes, and by yes I mean, yes.
June 14th, 2007 10:14
Fine. Twist my arm.
June 14th, 2007 11:05
Count on me!
June 14th, 2007 11:11
RSVP yes
June 14th, 2007 12:06
I’m in.
June 14th, 2007 13:58
I will attend.
June 14th, 2007 16:14
I’ll be there!!
June 15th, 2007 10:13
Oh, yes. I’m there. Definitely.
June 15th, 2007 10:16
I better be there
June 15th, 2007 11:01
I’m so there.
June 15th, 2007 11:20
Looking forward to it!
June 15th, 2007 11:49
[...] Don’t miss this month’s Providence Geek Dinner (Wednesday June 20!); Providence Geeks regulars Public Display will be giving their first public demonstration and you don’t want to miss it! Details and RSVP here. [...]
June 15th, 2007 11:51
See you there!
June 15th, 2007 12:27
Will be there!
June 15th, 2007 13:55
Alas, I’ll be giving a talk in Maine! Someday I will return to the Geek Dinners…
June 15th, 2007 15:04
Wish I could make it. Will be in SF.
June 15th, 2007 19:17
I will attend.
June 17th, 2007 19:37
I will be there.
June 18th, 2007 07:02
Sounds good – will be there.
June 18th, 2007 09:20
I wouldn’t miss it—Public Display has changed my life!
June 18th, 2007 09:53
I will attend
June 18th, 2007 14:54
I plan to attend.
June 18th, 2007 14:58
Probably will be there!
June 18th, 2007 15:46
Please put me down for two.
June 18th, 2007 17:44
I’ll be there
June 18th, 2007 20:24
I’m in.
June 18th, 2007 20:34
I will be there.
June 18th, 2007 20:35
I’ll be there with my wife, who is a high school librarian and claims she is not a geek??!!???
June 19th, 2007 23:20
oh, me me!
June 19th, 2007 23:23
oh, me me! And I recommend staying for the film, “The Holy Mountain”, at 9:30 for it will be supreme!
June 20th, 2007 10:04
I don’t know if this is too late for a headcount, but I’ll be there (first timer!) and probably with a friend.
June 20th, 2007 10:24
Maybe. There’s a meeting about schools on the East Side that conflicts.
June 20th, 2007 12:41
I hope to stop by at least for awhile.
June 20th, 2007 12:42
I’m in.
June 20th, 2007 12:44
My calendar goes up to 32 days.
June 20th, 2007 12:56
See you this evening…
June 20th, 2007 13:00
I will be coming with a couple of colleagues.
June 20th, 2007 13:38
See you there.
June 20th, 2007 14:01
We will see you this evening, looking forward to it!
June 20th, 2007 14:10
[...] at AS220 and will feature a presentation by the Providence Geeks regulars of Public Display. Click here for more [...]
June 20th, 2007 15:09
Me and the CS reps from the URI REU crew will be there. thats 5 in total.
lookin forward to it!
July 19th, 2007 16:25
1st timer – I’ll be there
July 25th, 2007 08:27
I’ll be there. Geek on!