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  • Aboutu0026gt; bio I grew up in San Diego, and I lived there from the day I was born to the day I moved up to the Bay Area for college. SD’s a wonderful place to visit and live, with great beaches, beautiful weather, and a relaxing laid-back style to it. If your only impression of Southern California is Los Angeles, you owe it to yourself to visit San Diego! I graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Symbolic Systems. My focus was in human-computer interaction. Name: Adam Tow Year of Birth: 1975 Hometown: San Diego, CA Current Residence: SF Bay Area Education: See Curriculum Vitae Myers-Briggs Type: INFP Riso-Hudson Type: 7 – Enthusiast I was most recently a Reuters Digital Vision Fellow at Stanford University, where I am creating technology that enables the developing world to access Internet information and applications. Currently, I’m working on numerous projects in digital media, photography, videography, and online journaling. Previously, I led the MyPalm client team for the i705 handheld at Palm, Inc.. Prior to Palm, I founded and ran Foundation Systems, a software development and consulting firm specializing in mobile computing. I wrote and sold a number of acclaimed software packages for…
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    DVF Offsite

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    November 14, 2003

    This weekend, I attended an offsite for the Reuters Digital Vision Program at the Asilomar conference grounds in Monterey. I have known about Asilomar for several years now, but I never knew that it was run by the State of California. For some reason, I had always thought of the…

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  • Journal

    LJCDS 10-Year Reunion

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    November 8, 2003

    I felt the past ten years wash over me like rushing water on the shores when I walked into the Beach House Brewery Saturday night for my high school’s 10-year reunion. Memories enveloped me like the rising tide, around the feet, ankles, knees, and legs. I had thought my 5-year…

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  • Journal

    Halloween

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    October 31, 2003

    On Halloween, Rae and I went up to the City to the Rotten Tomatoes Halloween party at the 26 Mix Club. No time to write a recap, so I’ll leave you with some photos from the evening.

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  • Journal, Photography

    Stanford Golf

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    October 26, 2003

    Stanford hosted the Nelson Invitational this weekend at the Stanford Golf Course. Alex King and I went to take some photographs of the tournament on Sunday morning. We followed two groups of Stanford golfers, Pat Phillips and Brandon Lawson and Matt Savage and Scott MacDonald, through the front nine before…

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  • Journal, Technology

    Night of the Panther

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    October 24, 2003

    From 8:00 pm to midnight on Friday, October 24, 2003, the Apple Faithful descended upon Apple Stores across the nation to christen the Night of the Panther. The third major update to Mac OS X brings a number of innovative features and functionality to the Unix-based operating system, including Exposé,…

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  • Journal, Photography

    Robert Capa: In Love and War

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    October 22, 2003

    The United Nations Association Film Festival kicked off today at Stanford University. Robert Capa: In Love and War by Anne Makepeace takes us through the life of the celebrated photojournalist Robert Capa. His photos captured the brutal essence of the Spanish Civil War and World War II. You’ve probably seen…

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  • Digital Vision, Journal

    Sun Executive Briefing Center Tour

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    October 21, 2003

    DVF Fellow, Michelle Aden, arranged for the group to have a tour of Sun Executive Briefing Center in Menlo Park on Tuesday. The first thing I thought of when I walked through their briefing showroom was, “Man, they spent a lot designing this place!” Demos and prototypes of various technologies…

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  • Journal

    A Night at the Stork Club

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    October 18, 2003

    Following Mirrielees Reunion at Stanford, I headed up to the Stork Club in Oakland to see Rae, and Susan. Three bands were playing that night, Model A, Copper Ocean, and Astral. Through the magic known as Friendster, I knew the lead singer and guitarist for Astral, Dave Han, through Susan…

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  • Journal

    Mirrielees Reunion

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    October 18, 2003

    Stanford Reunion was this past weekend. I attended my fifth-year reunion last year and had a blast. This year, the only event that I attended was Garry Grundy’s Mirrielees Reunion party at Mirrielees. Garry and I go way back to my time studying abroad in Paris, France. I was a…

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    November COBA Meeting

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    October 12, 2003

    I reviewed the new Adobe Creative Suite software collection at the November 12, 2003 meeting of the Camera Owners of the Bay Area. I centered my talk on the new version of Photoshop, which 24 people out of the 26 in the meeting use as their image processing application. I…

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  • Aboutu0026gt; bio I grew up in San Diego, and I lived there from the day I was born to the day I moved up to the Bay Area for college. SD’s a wonderful place to visit and live, with great beaches, beautiful weather, and a relaxing laid-back style to it. If your only impression of Southern California is Los Angeles, you owe it to yourself to visit San Diego! I graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Symbolic Systems. My focus was in human-computer interaction. Name: Adam Tow Year of Birth: 1975 Hometown: San Diego, CA Current Residence: SF Bay Area Education: See Curriculum Vitae Myers-Briggs Type: INFP Riso-Hudson Type: 7 – Enthusiast I was most recently a Reuters Digital Vision Fellow at Stanford University, where I am creating technology that enables the developing world to access Internet information and applications. Currently, I’m working on numerous projects in digital media, photography, videography, and online journaling. Previously, I led the MyPalm client team for the i705 handheld at Palm, Inc.. Prior to Palm, I founded and ran Foundation Systems, a software development and consulting firm specializing in mobile computing. I wrote and sold a number of acclaimed software packages for…
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