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KTRK-TV, channel 13, is an owned-and-operated television station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company, located and broadcasting in tne Houston, Texas, USA market. KTRK's studios and offices are located in the Upper Kirby district of Houston,^[1] and its transmitter is located in unincorporated northeastern Fort Bend County.

History[link]

The station grew out of the VHF "freeze", when three entities vying for the channel 13 assignment, including the Houston Chronicle, decided to merge as Houston Consolidated Television. They bought the studio facilities of the defunct KNUZ-TV (channel 39), a DuMont affiliate which had gone dark. As the Chronicle was the largest shareholder in the company, the station went on the air on November 20, 1954 as KTRK-TV, derived from the Chronicle's radio station, KTRH. The station was an ABC affiliate; during the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network.^[2]

The original studio facilities were located at 4513 Cullen Blvd (at the defunct Texas Television Center district in the University of Houston campus); this studio later housed KHTV (later KHWB and KHCW, now KIAH, the present channel 39) and PBS member station KUHT (channel 8).

In 1955, the Chronicle bought out its partners. Although this theoretically left the paper free to change its calls to "KTRH-TV" to match its radio sister, it opted not to do so. However, for years it called itself "The Houston Chronicle Station." Soon afterward, the station moved to its current Bissonnet Street location. The studio was the first domed structure in town, preceding the better-known Astrodome by 10 years. Both projects were built by the same architect, Hermon Lloyd. Like many stations located on "unlucky" channel 13, it used a black cat as its mascot.

Early programs involved a heavy emphasis on local flavor and reflected themes of the day. Some of the more popular local shows included:

• Kitirik: a children's oriented program, hosted by an actress in a cat costume.
• Cadet Don: A Space-themed adventure program for children, focusing on the exploits of an interstellar adventurer and the locations he visited.
• Dialing for Dollars: A game show of sorts where a viewer would be phoned by the host and would win a cash prize by answering questions.
• Good Morning Houston: The successor to Dialing for Dollars which debuted in the late 1970s and expanded to include discussions on local events and topics important to viewer's lifestyles.

In 1967, the Chronicle sold KTRK to Capital Cities Broadcasting (later to become Capital Cities Communications). CapCities bought ABC in 1986, making KTRK an ABC-owned and operated station, and one of two Capital Cities-owned stations already affiliated with ABC alongside WPVI-TV. With that distinction, KTRK would become the first network-owned station in Texas. After 1991, the station's only preemption was the first half-hour of The Home Show, an arrangement which continued when the show morphed into Mike and Maty.

The KTRK-TV studios in the West University area

Capital Cities/ABC was sold to the Walt Disney Company in early 1996. Not long after, the new Disney-led ownership directed KTRK-TV to clear the entire ABC schedule, though there have been times when local special events are aired in place of network programming (the annual running of the Chevron Houston Marathon is one notable example of this, when the Sunday edition of Good Morning America is pre-empted for live race coverage, anchored by the Eyewitness News team).

On April 30, 2000, a dispute between Disney and Time Warner Cable forced KTRK off cable systems within the Houston market for over 24 hours during the May sweeps period. Other ABC stations in markets served by Time Warner Cable, such as New York City, Los Angeles, and Raleigh/Durham, were also affected by the outage as well before the FCC forced TWC to restore service to those areas on May 2. [1] In 2007, Time Warner traded the Houston franchise for Dallas-Fort Worth's Comcast.

Digital television[link]

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Analog-to-digital conversion[link]

KTRK-TV ended programming on its analog signal, on VHF channel 13, on June 12, 2009, as part of the DTV transition in the United States.^[3] The station then moved back to channel 13 for its post-transition operations.^[4]

Programming[link]

Network and syndicated programming[link]

Under CapCities' ownership, KTRK preempted some ABC programming, though not nearly as much as other ABC affiliates, such as sister station WPVI-TV in Philadelphia. The programs which channel 13 preempted were not widely run in many markets, though for many years KTRK pre-empted the first half-hour of Good Morning America in favor of a local newscast. This practice continued into the early 1990s, before the newscast was moved back to a pre-7:00am start time. Despite these preemptions, ABC was more than satisfied with KTRK, one of its strongest affiliates.

Channel 13 is also different from many ABC owned-and-operated stations in that it has never aired the syndicated versions of Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!. Those programs have aired on CBS affiliate KHOU-TV (channel 11) since 1986, while they have been mainstays on most of ABC's owned-and-operated stations for years. Another such program, The Oprah Winfrey Show, was carried over KHOU for its entire 25-year run. In fact, at one point during the late 1980s to early 1990s, Donahue was the only daytime syndicated program on KTRK's lineup. This was largely due to its hour-long 6:00 p.m. newscast as well as its popular movie showcases and local programming at the time, including Good Morning Houston.

Since 2001, with the debut of the 4:00 p.m. newscast, channel 13 no longer has enough syndicated daytime hours of programming to back up its strong news programming outside of network programming. Thus the remaining two hours are filled by these syndicated programs during weekdays: Live! with Kelly, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (both of which are distributed by corporate cousin Disney-ABC Domestic Television), and Inside Edition.

Sports coverage[link]

KTRK-TV was the original television home of the Houston Astros, from the team's inaugural season in 1962 until 1971; however the station only televised Sunday afternoon road games.

Channel 13 has been the official television home of the Houston Texans since the expansion year in 2002. The station has televised all of the Texans' preseason games not carried on national networks since the team's inception. On Sundays during the Texans' season, it televises a post-game show, Houston Texans Inside the Game at 10:35 p.m. hosted by Bob Allen and Spencer Tillman, following its Sunday newscast. On Mondays during the regular season, it televises Look Back with Kubiak, in which sports director Bob Allen looks over the previous Sunday's game with Texans head coach Gary Kubiak, during its 6 p.m. newscasts. On Saturdays, its Extra Points sports show is converted to a special edition entitled Extra Points: Houston Texans Edition at 6:30 PM.

As ABC lost NFL rights at the end of the 2005 NFL season and with the Texans' regular season games broadcast on KHOU-TV (through the NFL on CBS), and sometimes KRIV (through Fox NFL Sunday and occasionally the NFL Network and ESPN Monday Night Football) and KPRC-TV (through NBC Sunday Night Football), the preseason games will be the only games broadcast on KTRK for the foreseeable future.

News programming[link]

KTRK is widely noted for having the most experienced news team in Greater Houston, the tenth-largest media market in the United States. Many of the station's anchors and reporters have been at the station for at least 20 years, some even dating back to the station's days under Capital Cities ownership. Dave Ward has been the station's main anchor since 1965, longer than anyone in Houston television history. Two other notable long-time personalities are sports director Bob Allen, who has served in that position since 1974, longer than any other major-market sports director, and investigative reporter Wayne Dolcefino, who has worked for KTRK since 1985 and has won many awards for a number of high-profile civic and consumer investigations with his 13 Undercover franchise.

KTRK also became known for its legendary consumer and investigative reporter, Marvin Zindler, whose week-long 1973 reports on a brothel in La Grange, Texas led to the closing of the Chicken Ranch, a bordello that was later immortalized in the musical and film, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and ZZ Top's hit song "La Grange." Zindler was also widely noted in Houston for his Friday night Rat and Roach Report on Houston restaurants that failed health inspections, which ended with his trademark line "Slime in the Ice Machine". Zindler signed a lifetime contract with KTRK in 1988, making him the first person ever offered such a contract by then-owner Capital Cities, which was known as a financially frugal company. Zindler continued to work for the station until his death in 2007 from pancreatic cancer, even filing reports from his hospital bed during treatment. Since his death, Zindler's former producer, Lori Reingold has picked up where he left off. She was instrumental in helping find "Marvin's Angels", wrote much of his copy and will be continuing under the segment name, "Action's Angels".

In the 1970s and 1980s, Ward, along with Allen, Zindler, and weatherman Ed Brandon, led Houston's top-rated news team at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. The lineup was later revised to include a female anchor, Shara Fryer in the 1990s, followed by current chief meteorologist Tim Heller in lieu of Brandon at 10 p.m. in 2002, and the replacement of Fryer with Gina Gaston the following year. In 2007, Brandon retired from the station after a 35-year career, but has occasionally filled in.

The station's newscast, 13 Eyewitness News, has been number one in the Houston market for most of the last 30 years. It is also one of the highest-rated newscasts in the country. In recent years, however, KTRK has faced strong challenges from rival CBS affiliate KHOU-TV, often battling with KHOU for number one during its evening newscasts. In the beginning of 2005, CBS affiliate KHOU-TV stepped up its news operations, and overtook KTRK during evening newscasts and at one time ousted KTRK's longtime No. 1 position in the mornings. KHOU-TV's victory in the ratings was mainly credited to the turn to hard news, the switch to HD, and its dedicated news team with Greg Hurst and Lisa Foronda at the helm of channel 11. KTRK-TV recently took the lead again in the mornings, as well as at midday, and 5 p.m. The rivalry is so intense that KTRK has even gone as far as advertising its newscasts as the most watched in Houston in terms of total households for all of its newscasts. KTRK-TV has always led in household ratings, something it continues to do. It broadcasts more hours of local news than any other Houston television station with six hours on weekdays, two and a half hours on Saturday and four hours on Sunday.

ABC13 Studio in December 2009

On August 12, 2007, KTRK began fully producing Eyewitness News in HD (HD helicopter and HD tower cam since mid-2006), making KTRK the second Houston station after KHOU and the seventh ABC owned-and-operated station after KABC in Los Angeles, WPVI in Philadelphia, WABC in New York City, WLS in Chicago, KGO in San Francisco and KFSN in Fresno to make the transition, although technically, KTRK had the first HD images broadcast during its newscasts (helicopter and weather camera) before any other station in Houston.

The victory for Channel 11 ended in 2007, as it slipped into the #2, and even #3 in some time slots. Since November 5, 2007, KTRK has reclaimed its victory as Houston's most watched station from sign-on to sign-off. Station promos state based on Nielsen's October 2007 ratings, 13 Eyewitness News is Houston's #1 newscast in Eyewitness News This Morning (5:00–7:00 am), Eyewitness News at 4 (4:00–5:00 pm), Live at Five (5:00–5:30 pm), Eyewitness News at 6 (6:00–7:00 pm) and Eyewitness News Tonight (10:00–10:35 pm). However KTRK wasn't able to recover from its 11am newscast, which came in second to KHOU's noon newscast (channel 13 was #1 at 11am though; but not for the entire midday block) until 2009, when it took the midday time slot from channel 11 which runs a noon newscast. The station also had major victories for 2008 election night and 2009 inauguration day, all the victories were won by a wide margin. This widens channel 13's lead over all other stations in the market, marking 30+ years that KTRK has remained number 1 in Houston. In the November 2009 sweeps period, Channel 11 regained the midday news lead. ABC 13 continues to dominate its competition in every other dayparts, except midday. In addition, KTRK ranks #1 among various demographics such as young women (25-35), African Americans, and suburban audiences.

On August 17, 2009, it was the first station in the market to begin airing a 4:30 AM newscast, beating KPRC by one week and KHOU by three.

Skyeye 13 HD[link]

Skyeye HD is owned by Helicopters Inc. and leased to Metro Networks/Westwood One. On October 13, 2008 around 11 AM, Skyeye HD crashed in W.G. Jones State Forest located near the intersection of FM 1488 and Peoples Road in southern Montgomery County, Texas. The aircraft, operated by a contractor, was in route to a breaking news story on a reported shooting when it went down. Pilot John Downhower and photographer/reporter Dave Garrett were killed in the accident.^[5][6][7] Hooks Airport, the closest airport to the crash site, confirmed that no distress call was heard prior to the crash. The last images fed to KTRK were before the crash, which showed the landing skid as the helicopter banked hard to the right. An investigation by the NTSB concludes the loss of power came from an undetermined source. When asking an accident reconstructionist about the preliminary report, he pointed to a device that didn't function properly that would have prevented an emergency landing. The malfunctioning part wasn't mentioned in the final report without an explanation.^[8]

News/station presentation[link]

Newscast titles[link]

• KTRK Television Newsreel (1954–1962)
• The Texas News (1962–1964)
• Channel 13 Information Center (1964-1965)
• Channel 13 News (1965–1971)
• Channel 13 Eyewitness News (1971–present; used as 13 Eyewitness News since 1971)^[9]
• 13 Eyewitness News (1998–present)^[10]
• 13 Eyewitness News HD (2007–present)

Station slogans[link]

• "The Houston Chronicle Station" (1954–1971)
• "Houston's Choice for News" (1971–1984; news slogan)
• "Houston's Great!" (1985–1987; used during period station used Frank Gari's "Turn To News")
• "Together We Care" (1987–1992; primarily for PSAs)
• "Caring Makes The Difference" (1989–1992)
• "13 Cares About Texas" (1992–present; often read as "We Care About Texas", still used for PSAs)^[11]
• "Share the Experience" (1993–1994)
• "Houston's News Leader" (1995–present)^[10]

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[edit] On-air staff^[12]

Anchors

• Tom Abrahams - Saturdays at 6, Sundays at 5:30, weekends at 10 p.m.; also weekday reporter
• Erik Barajas - weekdays at 4 p.m.; also weeknight reporter
• Ilona Carson - weekdays at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m.
• Gina Gaston - weeknights at 6 and 10 p.m.
• Tom Koch - weekday mornings (4:30-7 a.m.)
• Melanie Lawson - weekdays at 11 a.m. and weeknights at 5 p.m.
• Katie McCall - weekend mornings; also weekday morning reporter
• Sharron Melton - weekday mornings (4:30-7 a.m.)
• Art Rascon - weeknights at 5 p.m.
• Elissa Rivas - weekend mornings; also weekday morning reporter
• Adela Uchida - Saturdays at 6, Sundays at 5:30, weekends at 10 p.m.; also weekday reporter
• Dave Ward - weeknights at 6 and 10 p.m.

13 Eyewitness Weather

• Tim Heller (AMS and NWA Seals of Approval) - chief meteorologist; weeknights at 5, 6 and 10 p.m.
• Casey Curry - meteorologist; weekday mornings (4:30-7 a.m.)
• Travis Herzog (member, AMS; member, NWA) - meteorologist; weekdays at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m.
• David Tillman (AMS and NWA Seals of Approval) - meteorologist; weekend mornings, Saturdays at 6, Sundays at 5:30, weekends at 10 p.m.

Sports team

• Bob Allen - sports director; weeknights at 6 and 10 p.m.
• Tim Melton - sports anchor; Saturdays at 6, Sundays at 5:30, weekends at 10 p.m.
• Bob Slovak - sports reporter; also fill-in sports anchor
• Hugh Lewis - sports anchor; fill-in^[13]
• David Nuno - sports anchor; fill-in^[14]

Reporters

• Sonia Azad - general assignment reporter
• Wayne Dolcefino - investigative reporter
• Christine Dobbyn - general assignment reporter
• Jeff Ehling - consumer reporter
• Demond Fernandez - general assignment reporter
• Samica Knight - general assignment reporter
• Crystal Kobza - general assignment reporter
• Pooja Lodhia - general assignment reporter^[15]
• Patricia Lopez - consumer reporter
• Christi Myers - health reporter
• Don Nelson - weekday morning traffic and entertainment reporter
• Ted Oberg - "InFocus" feature reporter
• Kevin Quinn - general assignment reporter
• Miya Shay - general assignment reporter
• Jessica Willey - general assignment reporter
• Deborah Wrigley - general assignment reporter

Notable former on-air staff[link]

• Bob Boudreaux - weekend news anchor
• Andy Cerota - general assignment reporter/fill-in anchor (2003-2012; now at KPRC-TV)
• Cynthia Cisneros - general assignment reporter (1989–2012; now KTRK's vice president of community affairs)
• Troy Dungan - meteorologist (?–1976; hosted Dialing for Dollars and Turn On on KTRK; later at WFAA-TV in Dallas-Fort Worth; retired)
• Sylvan Rodriguez - anchor (1977–1987; later at KHOU-TV, deceased in 2000)
• Marvin Zindler - consumer anchor (1973–2007; died in 2007)

Station management[link]

• David Strickland - vice president of news
• Henry Florsheim - station president

Logos[link]

KTRK's "Circle 13" logo is loosely patterned after the Circle 7 logo long used by ABC stations and affiliates. It is similar to that of former sister station WTVG in Toledo, Ohio, only that KTRK calls itself ABC 13 while WTVG is known as 13 ABC (also WTVG's version of the logo does not include a design of the Texas state flag).

Its previous logo, which ran from 1971 until 1995, was a crooked "Circle 13." It recalled livestock branding of the Old West and was set in Helvetica font, with the bottom of the "3" trailing off out of the circle (similar also to the way the stem of the number 7 terminates at the bottom of the Circle 7 logo). In 1986 because of the Capital Cities/ABC Merger, the trailing portion was "trimmed" as the logo was turned slightly horizontal in a similar fashion to today's version. Since July 3, 1992, both logos have been superimposed over a stylized version of the Texas state flag.

See also[link]

Houston portal

• Circle 7 logo (The Circle 13 is the derivative of the Circle 7.)

External links[link]

• KTRK-TV Website
• KTRK-TV mobile
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KTRK-TV
• Program Information for KTRK at TitanTV.com

References[link]

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Al Freeman, Jr.
Born	Albert Cornelius Freeman, Jr. (1934-03-21) March 21, 1934 (age 78) San Antonio, Texas,  United States
Years active	1958–2004
Spouse	Sevara Clemon (1960–present)

Al Freeman, Jr., (born Albert Cornelius Freeman, Jr., on March 21, 1934, in San Antonio, Texas)^[1] is an American actor and director.

Freeman has made appearances in many films, such as My Sweet Charlie, Finian's Rainbow, and Malcolm X, and television series such as The Cosby Show, Law & Order, Homicide: Life on the Street and The Edge of Night. He is mostly recognized for his portrayal of Police Captain Ed Hall on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live, a role he played from 1972 through 1987, with recurring roles in 1988 and 2000. He won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor for that role in 1979, the first actor from the show as well as the first African American actor to earn the award. He was also a director of One Life to Live, and was one of the first African Americans to direct a soap opera.

After leaving One Life to Live, Freeman appeared in the motion picture Down in the Delta. His Broadway theatre credits include Look to the Lilies, Blues for Mister Charlie, and Medea. His portrayal of NOI leader Elijah Muhammad in the motion picture Malcolm X earned him the 1995 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. Coincidently, he had previously played Malcolm X in the 1979 miniseries, Roots: The Next Generations.

Freeman currently teaches acting as a professor at Howard University in Washington, D.C..

Selected filmography[link]

• Dutchman (1967)
• Malcolm X (1992)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Al Freeman, Jr. at the Internet Movie Database

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Bruce Sterling
Born	(1954-04-14) April 14, 1954 (age 58) Austin, Texas, U.S.
Pen name	Vincent Omniaveritas (in fanzine Cheap Truth)
Occupation	Writer, speaker, futurist, design instructor
Nationality	American
Period	1970s-present
Genres	Science fiction
Subjects	Cyberpunk
Literary movement	Cyberpunk/postcyberpunk
Influences J. G. Ballard, Alfred Bester, Samuel R. Delany, Chad Oliver
Influenced Charles Stross, Alastair Reynolds[1]
Signature
www.well.com/conf/mirrorshades/

Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which helped define the cyberpunk genre.^[2]

Writings[link]

Sterling is, along with William Gibson, Rudy Rucker, John Shirley, Lewis Shiner, and Pat Cadigan, one of the founders of the cyberpunk movement in science fiction, as well as its chief ideological promulgator, and one whose polemics on the topic earned him the nickname "Chairman Bruce".^[3] He was also one of the first organizers of the Turkey City Writer's Workshop, and is a frequent attendee at the Sycamore Hill Writer's Workshop. He won Hugo Awards for his novelettes Bicycle Repairman and Taklamakan.

His first novel, Involution Ocean, published in 1977, features the world Nullaqua where all the atmosphere is contained in a single, miles-deep crater; the story concerns a ship sailing on the ocean of dust at the bottom, which hunts creatures called dustwhales that live beneath the surface. It is partially a science-fictional pastiche of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville.

From the late 1970s onwards, Sterling wrote a series of stories set in the Shaper/Mechanist universe: the solar system is colonised, with two major warring factions. The Mechanists use a great deal of computer-based mechanical technologies; the Shapers do genetic engineering on a massive scale. The situation is complicated by the eventual contact with alien civilizations; humanity eventually splits into many subspecies, with the implication that many of these effectively vanish from the galaxy, reminiscent of The Singularity in the works of Vernor Vinge. The Shaper/Mechanist stories can be found in the collection Crystal Express and the collection Schismatrix Plus, which contains the original novel Schismatrix and all of the stories set in the Shaper/Mechanist universe. Alastair Reynolds identified Schismatrix and the other Shaper/Mechanist stories as one of the greatest influences on his own work.^[1]

Bruce Sterling at the 2010 Augmented Reality Event

In the 1980s, Sterling edited the science fiction critical fanzine Cheap Truth, under the alias of Vincent Omniaveritas. He wrote a column called Catscan, for the now-defunct science fiction critical magazine, SF Eye.

He recently contributed a chapter to Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture (The MIT Press, 2008) edited by Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky. He also contributed, along with Lewis Shiner, to the short story Mozart in Mirrorshades.

From April 2009 through May 2009, he was an editor at Cool Tools.^[4]

Since October 2003^[5] Sterling has blogged at "Beyond the Beyond", which is hosted by Wired.

Projects[link]

He has been the instigator of three projects which can be found on the Web -

• The Dead Media Project - A collection of "research notes" on dead media technologies, from Incan quipus, through Victorian phenakistoscopes, to the departed video game and home computers of the 1980s. The Project's homepage, including Sterling's original Dead Media Manifesto can be found at http://www.deadmedia.org
• The Viridian Design Movement - his attempt to create a "green" design movement focused on high-tech, stylish, and ecologically sound design.^[6] The Viridian Design home page, including Sterling's Viridian Manifesto and all of his Viridian Notes, is managed by Jon Lebkowsky at http://www.viridiandesign.org. The Viridian Movement helped to spawn the popular "bright green" environmental weblog Worldchanging. WorldChanging contributors include many of the original members of the Viridian "curia".
• Embrace the Decay - a web-only art piece commissioned by the LA Museum of Contemporary Art in 2003.^[7] Incorporating contributions solicited through The Viridian Design 'movement', Embrace the Decay was the most visited piece/page at LA MOCA's Digital Gallery, and included contributions from Jared Tarbell of levitated.net and co-author of several books on advanced Flash programming, and Monty Zukowski, creator of the winning 'decay algorithm' sponsored by Bruce.

Neologisms[link]

Sterling has a habit of coining neologisms to describe things which he believes will be common in the future, especially items which already exist in limited numbers.

• In the December 2005 issue of Wired magazine, Sterling coined the term buckyjunk. Buckyjunk refers to future, difficult-to-recycle consumer waste made of carbon nanotubes (aka buckytubes, based on buckyballs or buckminsterfullerene).
• In July 1989, in SF Eye #5, he was the first to use the word "slipstream" to refer to a type of speculative fiction between traditional science fiction and fantasy and mainstream literature.
• In December 1999 he coined the term "Wexelblat disaster", for a disaster caused when a natural disaster triggers a secondary, and more damaging, failure of human technology.^[8]
• In August 2004 he suggested a type of technological device (he called it "spime") that, through pervasive RFID and GPS tracking, can track its history of use and interact with the world.^[9]
• In the speech where he offered "spime", he noted that the term "blobject", with which he is sometimes credited, was passed on to him by industrial designer Karim Rashid. The term may originally have been coined by Steven Skov Holt.^[10]

Personal[link]

Sterling at Robofest '94

In childhood, Sterling spent several years in India; today he has a notable fondness for Bollywood films.^[11] In 2003 he was appointed Professor at the European Graduate School where he is teaching Summer Intensive Courses on media and design.^[2] In 2005, he became "visionary in residence" at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. He lived in Belgrade with his second wife, Serbian author and film-maker Jasmina Tesanovic^[12] for several years. In September 2007 he moved to Turin, Italy.^[13] He also travels the world extensively giving speeches and attending conferences.

Awards[link]

• 2000 Clarke Award winner for the novel Distraction^[14]
• 1999 Hayakawa Award winner Taklamakan Best Foreign Short Story
• 1999 Hugo Award winner for the novelette Taklamakan
• 1997 Hugo Award winner for the novelette Bicycle Repairman
• 1989 Campbell Award winner for the novel Islands in the Net^[15]

Bibliography[link]

Lectures and speeches[link]

• http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP992407 SXSW 2012 keynote talk
• Bruce Sterling at SXSW 2011 (part 1 of 3) part 2 of 3 part 3 of 3 South by South West, March 15, 2011, Austin, Texas ^[16][17]
• "Atemporality & The Passage of Time". Video lecture at European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, June 2010
• "On Favela Chic, Gothic High Tech and where we are heading." Reboot 11, Copenhagen, July 2009
• "Computer Entertainment Thirty-Five Years From Today". Flurb 6 Speech at the Austin Game Developers Conference. (Fall-Winter 2008).
• "A look at 2008, the boring year ahead". Lift08. Opening Keynote. 2008
• "Spimes and the future of artifacts" Lift
• "Mobiles and the urban poor" Lift Asis 08
• "The Internet of Things. What is a spime." Google, April 30, 2007
• Closing talk by Bruce Sterling South by South West, March 13, 2007, Austin Texas.
• Opening keynote speech at Ubicomp 2006 conference, Orange County, California. Bruce's speech begins at 0:10:20.
• "Impact and Sustainability of Technology." Video lecture @ European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland. 2006
• "The Wonderful Power of Storytelling". Keynote address to Computer Game Developers' Conference, San Jose, 1991.

References[link]

External links[link]

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