GSLIS to be well represented at 'Interpreting the Information Age' conference

Bonnie Mak
Bonnie Mak, Associate Professor
Alistair Black
Alistair Black, Professor Emeritus

GSLIS will be well represented at the upcoming conference, "Interpreting the Information Age: New Avenues for Research and Display," which will be held at the Science Museum in London on November 3-5.

The conference is linked to the opening of a new permanent gallery in the museum, which is named "Information Age: Six Networks That Changed Our World." The gallery will expose, examine, and celebrate how information and communication technologies have transformed our lives during the last two hundred years. The conference will address how the history and material culture of information can be made relevant for today's audiences.

GSLIS participants and their paper titles are as follows:

Professor Emeritus W. Boyd Rayward, "Envisioning the Digital Future in a Pre-Digital World: Paul Otlet, Global Networks and Information Machines"

Associate Professor Bonnie Mak,"Performing a History of Information"

Professor Alistair Black (and Professor Anthony Bryant, Leeds Beckett University), "From 'Front Page' to 'Home Page': The Evolution of the In-House Magazine in Britain"

Former GSLIS Visiting Research Fellow, Professor Charles van den Heuvel (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands), "The Display of Global Knowledge Objects and the World Wide Web: Experiments with Information Retrieval and Visual Interfaces to Science 1915-2015"

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