. The Australian National University Department of Computer Science Seminar
"I wake to the burble of an electronic voice"
by Lynette Chiang, Author
Wednesday, August 6, 2003 Time: 4:00 pm to 5:00pm
Room N101, CSIT Building, North Road
How does a graduate of Computer Science at the ANU come to be writing about Cuba from the seat of a
folding bicycle? Lynette will talk about how she went from learning IT on the ANU's DEC-10, through
being an "Oracle oracle", to marketer and author. She will show photos from, and talk about, her new
book "The Handsomest Man in Cuba":
"Jose and Kenia are already up and puttering about. He explains that, as a surgeon, he has performed
many operations for foreigners living in Cuba, and to express their gratitude a group of them has
banded together and bought him a personal computer. He can't access the internet, nor does it have
much software, but it does tell the time in a most optimistic manner. One day, they will have
Internet."
Biography:
The great-grand-daughter of one of the first Chinese gold prospectors in Australia, Lynette Chiang
comes from a long line of adventurers. The former creative director of Saatchi and Saatchi
Advertising in Costa Rica and winner of a coveted Bronze Lion at Cannes, she left the highflying
world of advertising to live in a cabin in the Costa Rican cloudforests with a view across to the
Mountain of the Dead.
Lynette is now at a small Oregon company that custom built the bike she took to Cuba. Having
bicycled alone for 6 years throughout Great Britain, Central America, up and down volcanoes and from
one end of Cuba to the other, Lynette is already a legend in the world of solo cycle touring.
For more information on Lynette Chiang, see <http://www.bikefriday.com/lynette/cuba/cuba.html>
This announcement: <http://cs.anu.edu.au/lib/seminars/seminars03/dept20030806>
This is a free talk. No need to RSVP. The Computer Science and Information Technology (CSIT)
Building is on North Road (across from the sports centre): <http://cs.anu.edu.au/building.html>
ps: It happened that Lynette and I shared an interest in folding bicycles
<http://www.tomw.net.au/2003/bb/brisbane.html> and IT, so I invited her to give this talk.
All welcome.
Tom Worthington FACS [email hidden] Director, Tomw Communications Pty Ltd ABN: 17 088
714 309 tomw.net.automw.net.auOpen ↗ PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617 Visiting Fellow, Computer Science,
Australian National University Publications Director, Australian Computer Society