Associate Professor Lori Kendall, Associate Professor Jerome McDonough, and doctoral candidate Rhiannon Bettivia presented their research recently at the Digital Memories 5th Global Conference, held at Mansfield College, Oxford University, at the end of September.
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…
GSLIS faculty, students, and staff will participate in the 77th American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting, which will be held October 31-November 5 in Seattle. The ASIS&T Annual Meeting is the premier international conference dedicated to the study of information, people, and technology in contemporary society. This year’s theme is “Connecting…
Senior Research Scientist Martin Wolske will be trekking the globe this month, giving presentations and keynote addresses in Canada, Italy, and Illinois. His presentations will share a focus on scholarship related to engagement and social change and draw on his work in community informatics. Wolske will be joined by recent graduate Colin Rhinesmith (PhD ’14) in making presentations at one of the…
Associate Professor Carol Tilley will make two appearances at New York Comic Con (NYCC), an annual New York City fan convention dedicated to comics, graphic novels, anime, manga, video games, toys, movies, and television. Known as the largest pop culture event on the East Coast, NYCC will be held on October 9 - 12 at the Javits Center.
Tilley, one of the nation's leading experts and a popular…
Catherine Blake, GSLIS associate professor and associate director of the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS), presented a paper at the 2014 International Symposium on Inconsistency Robustness, held at Stanford University on July 29-31. The symposium connected an interdisciplinary group of researchers from around the globe to discuss concepts related to inconsistency…
Several students and faculty affiliated with CIRSS and active in the Site-Based Data Curation at Yellowstone National Park (SBDC) project will present at the 12th Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in Mammoth, Wyoming, on October 6-8. The theme of the conference, which is hosted by the National Park Service, is "Crossing Boundaries in Science, Management, &…
GSLIS faculty member Michael Twidale delivered a talk on September 9 as part of the Information Trust Institute’s Trust & Security Seminar Series. The series highlights many aspects and applications of information security. In his talk, “The Usability of Security,” Twidale discussed the need for balance between security and usability.
Abstract: Is an 8-character password more secure than…
GSLIS Professor Bertram Ludäscher will present, "Unifying Why and Why-Not Provenance using First-Order Query Evaluation Games," at the Yahoo!-DAIS (Database and Information Systems Laboratory) Seminar from 4:00-5:00 p.m. on October 7 at the Siebel Center for Computer Science (Room 216). He also will be the featured speaker at this month's CIRSS Seminar Series at GSLIS on September 19.
His…
