David Friend grew up in New York and made his first oscillator using a dual-triode vacuum tube at about age 8. Throughout his teens he built many more, especially after he could get his hands on transistors. At Yale, Friend double-majored in engineering and music composition and designed and built most of the Yale Electronic Music studio as a bursary job. While he was in grad school at Princeton, he got a call from the best analog designer he's ever met named Alan R. Pearlman who wanted to start a company to make synthesizers.

TSO Music Director Peter Oundjian leads the world première of A Toronto Symphony: Concerto for Composer and City on March 9 at 8:00pm.

In accompaniment to the world première, the CN Tower will feature a customized light show which is synchronized to the music.

Tod Machover is curating the Toronto Symphony Orchestra's New Creations Festival. There are a host of events between March 2 and 9, including talks and workshops, and performances of Machover's orchestra and electronics works.

Some of the most distinguished thought leaders in the computing field share their views on technology and how it shapes our modern world.

Meet musician and inventor Tod Machover, the creator of technologies behind "Guitar Hero" and "Rock Band." Computer History Museum's John Hollar speaks to the influential composer, whose work has been performed internationally, about the future of digital music and his research as the professor of music and media at MIT Media Lab, where he directs the Opera of the Future group.

The show will be broadcast six times (all times are PT)

We live in a world made of networked computers, but we regulate them like they were toys, phones, entertainment devices. We get it wrong—really, really wrong—and it's only going to get worse. Without substantive reform to technology regulation, we face the possibility of remaking the most hopeful force for liberation into the most brutal form of control.

This talk is open to the public.

A presentation of WeMadeThis.Es featuring North American and Spanish digital artists along with Héctor Ayuso, author and director of OFFF festival.

How is design created today? Join leading designers from Spain, the US, and abroad as they talk about their work and the state of graphic design in today's global, connected design world.

Day Two: Saturday, January 19, 2013

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Coco Krumme develops methodologies to measure rates of change in individual human behavior, and to capture statistical regularities in change at the population level, in three pieces: i) a model of individual rate of change as a function of search and finite resources, ii) a structural analysis of population level change in urban economies, and iii) a statistical test for the deviation from a null model of rank churn of items in a distribution.