Speakers

Program

Friday, April 27
9:00 − 10:00	Continental breakfast / Check-in
10:00 − 10:15	Welcome (RIT Provost Jeremy Haefner)
10:15 −10:45	Charles Bigelow "Introduction"
10:45 − 11:15	Gordon Legge "Reading Digital With Low Vision"
11:15 − 11:45	Kevin Larson [TBA]
11:45 − 12:15	Steve Matteson "Type, Tech, and Tools to Change the Way We Read"
12:15 − 1:30	Lunch @ RIT SAU (Student Alumni Union)
1:30 − 2:15	Tom Rickner "Hints about Hinting - the Achille's Heel of Type on Screen"
2:15 − 2:45	Gary Munch "Oh, gee! Curves, entasis, and seeing triple."
2:45 − 3:15	Mark Changizi "Nature-Harnessing in Writing...and also Speech and Music"
3:15 − 3:45	Denis Pelli [TBA]
3:45 − 4:15	Timothy Engström "Sight Regained: Bringing Vision to Mind"
4:15 − 4:40	Afternoon Break
4:45 − 5:20	Panel Discussion + Q&A "Reading: Art to Science"
5:30 − 6:15	Frederic W. Goudy Lecture & Award - Kris Holmes "Moving Right Along"
6:30 − 8:30	Reception at Cary Collection, 2nd floor Wallace Center Library

Saturday, April 28
8:00 −9:00	Continental breakfast
9:00 −9:10	Announcements/Introduction
9:10 − 9:45	Mario Garcia "Storytelling in the Age of the Tablet"
9:45 − 10:15	Christine Heusner "Teaching Tablet Publishing: the leading edge",Zack Smith "Learning Tablet Publishing: the bleeding edge"
10:15 − 10:45	Andy Charron "Quark XPress and Publishing Apps"
10:45 − 11:15	Refreshment break
11:15 − 11:45	David Brailsford - "Flexibility vs. Quality: the challenges for e-book layouts"
11:45 − 12:15	Robert Li Volsi, Richard Zanibbi, Charles Bigelow "Google Books, Readability, and Culturomics"
12:15 − 12:45	Panel Discussion + Q&A "Reading: Print to Screen"