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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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    COBA and DVF

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    February 12, 2003

    Wednesday was a double dose of presentations. As is becoming customary, I went to the Digital Vision Fellowship Seminar series in the afternoon at Stanford’s Cordura Hall. The speaker this week was Iqbal Z. Quadir, fellow at the Harvard’s Center for Business and Government and at the Center for Business…

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    Dardy and Alan's Housewarming Party

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    February 8, 2003

    Saturday night, I went to see Cirque du Soleil for the first time. I had an opportunity to see the Quidam tour my senior year in college, but I didn’t go for some reason or another (even though I was the one who bought the tickets!). I’ve been missing out…

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    Digital Vision Fellowship

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    February 5, 2003

    Following a great lunch at the Bombay Oven in Cupertino with Kathy Ly, a former Palm colleague, I headed down to Stanford to hear Dan’l Lewin, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, give a talk on the .NET to the Fellows in the Digital Vision Fellowship Program. I last saw Dan’l…

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    Po Bronson

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    February 4, 2003

    This evening, Keplers featured Po Bronson, who in his latest book, poses the oft-asked, rarely answered question, What Should I Do with My Life? Bronson interviewed hundreds of people across the country in selecting fifty-five to profile in WSIDWML (doesn’t that sound like a tech term!). It’s not so much…

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    Chinese New Year

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    February 1, 2003

    The days, months, and years go by faster with age. It doesn’t seem that long ago when we were ringing in the Year of the Horse at Petrice’s house in Berkeley, and now the Year of the Sheep/Goat is here. The New Year didn’t get started off very well, of…

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    SNUG 9th Anniversary Meeting

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    January 28, 2003

    It’s been nearly 5 years since the Newton was “cancelled” by Apple, but the Newton community has kept it going strong. Tuesday night featured the 9th Anniversary Meeting of the Stanford Newton User Group, one of the first Newton user groups ever created. When I was a freshman at Stanford,…

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    MacWorld 2003 Keynote

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    January 8, 2003

    I’ve come to you now, at the turn of the tide. A number of my friends have inquiring why there haven’t been many updates from me lately. There’s a reason to my disappearance. I’ve been coding like a fiend since the beginning of December! You can see a preview of…

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    Kenny Liu

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    December 18, 2002

    This morning, I was tightening the quick-release plate onto the bottom of my camera when I heard a “shickt” sound. The top threads of the tripod socket stripped when I tightened the screw, making it impossible for me to attach the plate to the camera. This is not the type…

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    White Elephant

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    December 17, 2002

    Thanks to the efforts of Fanny, the former crew of the Content and Access Division at Palm has kept in touch following the aftermath of Palm’s frequent downsizings. A number of us have left the company for new opportunities and greener pastures, but fortunately our friendships remain. Today, we went…

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    Eric's Birthday

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    December 15, 2002

    Sophia organized a surprise birthday party for Eric this evening at Buca di Beppo’s in Palo Alto. Safe from the howling wind and the driving rain, Mike, Emile, Zhenya, Sophia, Benjamin, Rae, Mandy, Elliot, and I celebrated the newest entrant into the late twenties in grand style, downing plates of…

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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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