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Hacks/Hackers Heartland launches with lightning talks

Jennifer 8. Lee

Mar 30, 2011

Hacks/Hackers Heartland had a lightning talk event on March 24 at the Harper Center of Creighton University in Omaha.

Among the presenters: Matt Waite, formerly of St. Petersburg Times and Politifact (now a professor at University of Nebraska), who sees a need for more fundamental hacking. Here is pdf of the slides (light on text, but full of images from the Matrix.) and the video

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