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SPEAKERS
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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1. Semantic Search
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research |
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Ricardo Baeza-Yates is VP of Yahoo! Research for Erope and Latin America, Leading the labs at Barcelona, Spain and Santiago, Chile. Until 2005 he was the director of the Center for Web Research at the Departement of Computer Science of the Engineering School of the University of Chile; and ICREA Professor at the Dept.of Technology of Univ. Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. |
He is co-author of the book Modern Information Retrieval, published in 1999 by Addison-Wesley, as well as co-author of the 2nd edition of the Handbook of Algorithms and Data Structures ,Addison-Wesley, 1991; and co-editor of Information Retrieval: Algorithms and Data Structures, Prentice-Hall, 1992,among more than 150 other publications. |
He has received the organitation of American States award for young researches in exact sciences(1993) and with two Brazilian research article (1997). In 2003 he was the first computer scientist to be elected to the Chilean Academy of Sciences.
During 2007 he was awarded the Graham Medalfor innovation in computing, given by the university of waterloo to distinguished ex-alumni.
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| Read more about Ricardo Baeza-Yates
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2. Augmented Social Cogniton: Using Web2.0 technology to enhance the ability of groups to remember, think, and reason
Ed H. Chi, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) |
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Ed H. Chi is area manager and senior research scientist at Palo Alto Research Center's Augmented Social Cognition Group. He leads the group in understanding how Web2.0 and Social Computing systems help groups of people to remember, think and reason..Ed completed his three degrees (B.S., M.S., and Ph.D.) in 6.5 years from University of Minnesota, and has been doing research on user interface software systems since 1993.
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He has been featured and quoted in the press, such as the Economist, Time Magazine, LA Times, and the Associated Press.
With 19 patents and over 50 research articles, his most well-known past project is the study of Information Scent --- understanding how users navigate and understand the Web and information environments.
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He has also worked on computational molecular biology, ubicomp, and recommendation/search engines. He has won awards for both teaching and research. In his spare time, Ed is an avid Taekwondo martial artist, photographer, and snowboarder.
Read more about Ed H. Chi at
http://www2.parc.com/istl/groups/uir/people/ed/ed.htm
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TUTORIAL SPEAKERS
1. Preservation Planning:
Planning for optimal long-term digital preservation
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Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology - Austria
rauber@ifs.tuwien.ac.at |
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Andreas Rauber is Associate Professor at the Department of Software Technology and Interactive Systems (ifs) at the Vienna University of Technology (TU-Wien). He furthermore is president of AARIT, the Austrian Association for Research in IT. He received his MSc and PhD in Computer Science from the Vienna University of Technology in 1997 and 2000, respectively. In 2001 he joined the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) in Pisa as an ERCIM Research Fellow, followed by an ERCIM Research position at the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA), at Rocquencourt, France, in 2002. From
2004-2008 he was also head of the iSpaces research group at the eCommerce Competence Center (ec3).
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In 1998 he received the GAI Award of the Austrian Society for Artificial Intelligence (GAI), and the Cor-Baayen Award of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) in 2002. He has published numerous papers in refereed journals and international conferences and served as PC member and reviewer for several major journals, conferences and workshops. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Austrian Society for Artificial Intelligence (GAI).
He serves on the board of the IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries (TCDL), and is a member of the DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries as well as the MUSCLE Network of Excellence on Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computation and Learning.
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He is actively involved in several research projects in the field of Digital Libraries, focusing on the organization and exploration of large information spaces, as well as Web archiving and digital preservation.
His research interests cover the broad scope of digital libraries, including specifically text and music information retrieval and organization, information visualization, as well as data analysis and neural computation.
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Download Andreas' Tutorial Description (42,949 bytes)
Read more about Andreas Rauber at http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~andi/short_cv.html
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2. A Librarian Interface for FEDORA and Greenstone
David Bainbridge, The University of Waikato - New Zealand
davidb@cs.waikato.ac.nz |
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David Bainbridge is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1991 as the class medalist in Computer Science and holds a PhD from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand where he studied the problem of Optical Music Recognition as a Commonwealth Scholar. He is co-director of the New Zealand Digital Library project, with emphasis on multimedia and digital library infrastructure. He has collaborated with several United Nations agencies, the BBC, and various public and national libraries.
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He is co-author of "How to build a digital library" (2003), as well as many journal articles and conference papers in the areas of image processing, music information retrieval, text-mining and digital libraries
Read David' Tutorial Description
Read more about David Bainbridge at http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~davidb/
3. Topic to be announced
George Buchanan, Swansea University - United Kingdom
g.r.buchanan@swansea.ac.uk |
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George Buchanan is a lecturer at Swansea University, where he is a member of the Future Interaction Technology (FIT) laboratory.
He is also a visiting academic at the UCL Interaction Centre, and working on the User Centred Interactive Search project with Ann Blandford, Claire Warwick, Jeremy Gow and Jon Rimmer. He has previously worked in the School of Computer Science at Middesex University and at the Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato - New Zealand.
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His research interests cover three main areas: * Digital Libraries: information seeking using indexed and organised collections of electronic documents. * Mobile Computing: accessing information through small-screen, handheld devices. * Spatial Hypertext: visually organising digital objects in a graphical, freeform workspace.
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In each of these areas, he is interested in the interaction of people with these sytems - how the systems can be made easier to use, more productive and support a wider range of 'real world' tasks. A particular common theme is the support of information seeking - finding and collecting useful information as part of a knowledge-based task. Being from a background of computer science and software engineering, he also has a strong interest in the technical aspects of each area - focussing on how systems can exchange information more fluidly and flexibly.
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He works extensively with the New Zealand Digital Library Project, at the University of Waikato in New Zealand, and with Matt Jones and Harold Thimbleby at University of Wales, Swansea on Mobile HCI. He has also been working for some time with the Information Systems and Databases (ISDB) group at the University of Waikato, particularly with Annika Hinze. His other collaborators include Anne Adams at University College London, Dr. Frank Shipman at Texas A&M University, and Prof. Tammy Sumner at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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Read more about George Buchanan at http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/~csgeorge/ |
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