<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">All,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">one last reminder to fill out the form below if you want be part of the lab’s ‘excursion’ to see Dreamcatcher at the CMU's film festival. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><a href="http://goo.gl/forms/CrqD86ohEt" class="">http://goo.gl/forms/CrqD86ohEt</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
===============================<div class="">Benedikt Boecking</div><div class="">Research Programmer</div><div class="">Auton Lab, School of Computer Science</div><div class="">Carnegie Mellon University</div>
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 2, 2016, at 12:40 PM, Artur Dubrawski <<a href="mailto:awd@cs.cmu.edu" class="">awd@cs.cmu.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Thanks Ben!<br class=""><br class="">A few points to add:<br class=""><br class="">1. The Lab buys the tickets.<br class=""><br class="">2. More on the movie can be found here:<br class=""><a href="http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/reviews-recommendations/film-week-dreamcatcher" class="">http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/reviews-recommendations/film-week-dreamcatcher</a><br class=""><br class="">3. It looks like we will have the main character present in the room in<br class="">person.<br class=""><br class="">4. Those of us who are involved in anti-trafficking research sometimes<br class="">feel frustrated upon realization that relatively little is being done<br class="">to support victims pulled from circulation by law enforcement, and how<br class="">many of them return to the old business after being rescued. We have<br class="">imagined better effectiveness of rescue. This movie and the presence of<br class="">one of the survivors gives us a chance to improve understanding of these<br class="">issues. Recall that our original intention behind Traffic Jam was helping<br class="">the victims. Our current technology supports law enforcement and it<br class="">clearly leads towards that goal, but somewhat less directly than we have<br class="">imagined. Could more be done?<br class=""><br class="">Artur<br class=""><br class="">On Tue, March 1, 2016 9:02 pm, Benedikt Boecking wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Dear Autonians,<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">This yearâs theme of the Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival is<br class="">'Faces of Conflict'. Maria discovered that one of the feature films is<br class="">Dreamcatcher, a documentary about human trafficking. Given our labâs<br class="">active involvement in fighting human trafficking, we would like to invite<br class="">you all for an evening out at the movies. Please answer the following<br class="">poll if you are interested in attending and if you would like to bring a<br class="">+1 so that we can organize tickets. There will also be a special<br class="">appearance and Panel/Q & A with Brenda Myers-Powell, Co-Founder and<br class="">Executive Director of the Dreamcatcher Foundation.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">http://goo.gl/forms/CrqD86ohEt <http://goo.gl/forms/CrqD86ohEt><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Dreamcatcher (UK/USA, 2015, 97 min)<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">FRIDAY, MARCH 18<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">7:00 pm | McConomy Auditorium, CMU University Center<br class="">+ Special Appearance and Panel/Q & A with Brenda Myers-Powell,<br class="">Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Dreamcatcher Foundation<br class="">+Dessert Reception<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">===============================<br class="">Benedikt Boecking<br class="">Research Programmer<br class="">Auton Lab, School of Computer Science<br class="">Carnegie Mellon University<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>