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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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    Apature Film Night

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    September 25, 2003

    APAture 2003 Film Night was held Thursday evening at the SOMArts Cultural Center in San Francisco. I was last at SOMArts for a butoh performance by Harupin-Ha Butoh Dance Theatre. Rae’s documentary narrative film, Jingwei Girls, was selected along with 10 other works from filmmakers around the Bay Area. Here’s…

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    Jasper Ridge

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    September 22, 2003

    Today, the DVF group took a tour of the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve just outside of the Stanford campus. It was hot, hot, hot! I had never gone to Jasper Ridge when I was a student, though I knew of it through Alex Rubio during my senior year on campus.…

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    Held So Close Redux

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    September 21, 2003

    Facing East’s dance performance, HELD SO CLOSE…remembering the poets of Angel Island concluded its run on Sunday evening. We had a much bigger crowd than the previous week, which was certainly a good thing. Perhaps the article in the Bay Guardian helped, or my flurried posts to a variety of…

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    AQW Party

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    September 20, 2003

    AQW moved into their new headquarters in Sunnyvale this past week, and on Saturday night they held their christening party. Javi, Osv, Daniel, and Felix, along with Mark, Randy, and the rest of the gang assembled quite the guest list of their friends and co-workers. They did not, however, inform…

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    Dardy's End of Summer Party

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    September 19, 2003

    Dardy held his end of the summer party on Friday night. Notable people that I ran into included Aileen Chen, whom I haven’t seen in ages (and she’s been in SF this whole time!) and Tony Lo, a graduate from 96 who looks vaguely familiar. There is a connection that…

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    IDEO Workshop

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    September 18, 2003

    IDEO University kept the DVF fellows busy for Thursday and Friday of last week. I once took a class with the founder of IDEO, David Kelly, at Stanford. CS447/ME296 was my first experience with working in a multi-disciplinary group. My group designed SportsScope, the video for which you can view…

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    Intel Museum and Stanford

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    September 17, 2003

    Today, the DVF troupe went to the Intel Museum in Santa Clara. Dave Libby was our tour guide through the museum, which explores the history of Intel from the company’s beginnings in the 1960’s to the present day. Moore and Noyce were going to name the company after themselves, but…

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    Held So Close

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    September 17, 2003

    Facing East Dance & Music is holding the final two performances of HELD SO CLOSE…remembering the poets of Angel Island this weekend. It’s being held at the McKenna Theatre at San Francisco State University at 8:00 pm on Saturday (9/20) and 7:00 pm on Sunday (9/21). Prices are $22 general…

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    Cantor Art Museum

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    September 16, 2003

    The DVF troupe was given a tour of the Iris & Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University today. The museum was reopened in 1999, 10 years after the Loma Prieta Earthquake of 1989. Alas, that was two years after I had graduated, though to be honest, I’m…

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    T-Mobile International

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    September 14, 2003

    The 2003 T-Mobile International, formerly known as the San Francisco Grand Prix, cycling race was held yesterday in downtown San Francisco. Thousands of cycling fans descended and ascended the hills of SF to see a 120-person strong international team of riders, including 5-time Tour de France champion, Lance Armstrong and…

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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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