My great friend, neighbor and brilliant ex-co-phd-colleague/trusted-conference-travel-companion Mads Bødker is defending his phd thesis at the IT-University, Auditorium 1 on Thursday, November 1. at 10.00 AM.
If you generally interested in the new breed of HCI research and issues relating to Risk and Reflective design you should stop by on Thursday for the talk.

“Trust Within Technology: Risk, Existential Trust, and Reflective Designs in Human Computer Interaction”

check out the abstract here:
http://www1.itu.dk/graphics/ITU-library/Internet/Forskning/Phd/PhD_Defences/2007/abstract_mads_b%F8dker.pdf
or go get the full monty here (worth a read, trust me):
http://www1.itu.dk/graphics/ITU-library/Internet/Forskning/Phd/PhD_Defences/2007/Thesis_Mads_Boedker.pdf
The assessment committee is:
John McCarthy, University of Cork, Ireland (who also was in my committee, a very nice fella!)
Hildur Kalman, University of Umeå, Sweden
Kjeld Schmidt, IT-University of Copenhagen, Denmark

The defence will take approximately 3-4 hours followed by the traditional ITU-treat snacks and vino!