Location:  Southand North Buildings,

               McCormick Place

               2301 S. Lake Shore Drive

               Chicago, Illinois 60616

http://www.mccormickplace.com/attendees/getting-here.php

Attendance: 28,941

This event is not opento the public.

Why should you be there?

美国图书馆协会（ALA）2013年年会将于6月29日邀请傅苹在大会上发表演讲并将向全美国12万家公共图书馆推荐那本充满谎言的自传。

http://news.sciencenet.cn/htmlnews/2013/6/278936.shtm

http://ala13.ala.org/highlights#ping-fu

Auditorium Speaker Ping Fu
Saturday, June 29
12:00-1:00pm

Get inspired by Ping Fu’s journey from her childhood during China’s CulturalRevolution to becoming a top American innovator and tech entrepreneur whofounded Geomagic, a 3D digital reality solution company.

If you’re currently considering or implementing maker programs in yourlibrary, this program will resonate as more than an incredible personalstory.  “I was a maker all along,” she said in an interview with MAKEMagazine. She says that making and craftsmanship are highly revered in Chinaand her experience working in Mao’s factories led to her interest in connectingsoftware to the physical world, that in turn became her vision for Geomagic and3D technology.

Ping Fu’s story of personal and business resilience is told in her memoir Bend,NotBreak:  A Life in Two Worlds Portfolio/Penguin). The book relates howshe was separated during China’s Cultural Revolution from her parents at ageeight, was forced to work in factories rather than get a school education, andultimately exiled at 25 when she came to the U.S. She quickly made a new lifefor herself as an entrepreneur, worked at the National Center forSupercomputing Applications and AT&T Bell Labs,and is a member of PresidentObama’s National Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship and a board memberof Long Now Foundation.