The CHOOSE executive board is pleased to invite you to a presentation by Dr. Bert Freudenberg on 'One Etoy Per Child on the $100 Laptop'.

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One Etoy Per Child on the $100 Laptop ==========================

When: 06.07.2007

Where: Institut fuer Wirtschaftsinformatik (IWI), Universitaet Bern, Engehaldenstrasse 8, 3012 Bern, Hoersaal 001

Travel instructions: http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Resources/Maps/

Speaker ------- Dr. Bert Freudenberg

Agenda ------

1 hour Talk and Q/A

Afterwards you are invited to a refreshment.

Abstract ======== Most of the two billion children in developing countries have unsufficient access to education. The non-profit "One Laptop per Child" project is working on a learning machine, a cheap, networked computer with software to support "learning to learn" for every child. One of its software components is "Etoys", a tile-based authoring environment written on top of Squeak. The talk will present the OLPC project, its current state of development in general and the progress on Etoys in particular.

Bio === Dr. Bert Freudenberg got a PhD from the University of Magdeburg (on non-photorealistic realtime rendering). He worked for impara GmbH in Magdeburg developing software for children. Currently he is a freelancing developer working for Alan Kay's Viewpoints Research Institute on porting the Squeak and Etoys environment to the 100 dollar laptop.

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