BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:UC Berkeley School of Information / Drupal VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:UC Berkeley School of Information X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:US-Pacific X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20100203T080000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20100206T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:10328@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:The fifth annual iConference will examine the impacts of the iSchool movement; it will explore both actual and potential impacts of the iSchool movement, and ask how impact can be defined, identified, measured, and communicated.\n\n The iSchools Caucus consists of twenty-one information schools from across the US and Canada, interested in the relationship between information, technology, and people.\n\n For more information, see the iSchools Caucus website.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20091030T090047 LOCATION:University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:iConference 2010 TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/iconference2010 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20091208T110000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20091208T123000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:15105@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:An open house student project exhibition of the "Theory and Practice of Tangible User Interfaces" class.\n\n The Tangible User Interfaces course at the School of Information focuses on physical interaction with computational media. Students design and develop experimental applications, underlying technologies, and theories using concept sketches, posters, physical mock-ups, working prototypes, and a final project report. \n\n The exhibition will take place on both Thursday, December 3, and Tuesday, December 8. All projects will be on exhibit both days.\n\n Stop by for some fun, food, and a chance to try the interfaces out for yourself!\n\n More information: Info 262: Theory and Practice of Tangible Interfaces\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20091123T112001 LOCATION:110 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Tangible User Interfaces: Student Project Exhibition TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20091208tui END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20091203T110000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20091203T123000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:14950@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:An open house student project exhibition of the "Theory and Practice of Tangible User Interfaces" class.\n\n The Tangible User Interfaces course at the School of Information focuses on physical interaction with computational media. Students design and develop experimental applications, underlying technologies, and theories using concept sketches, posters, physical mock-ups, working prototypes, and a final project report. \n\n The exhibition will take place on both Thursday, December 3, and Tuesday, December 8. All projects will be on exhibit both days.\n\n Stop by for some fun, food, and a chance to try the interfaces out for yourself!\n\n More information: Info 262: Theory and Practice of Tangible Interfaces\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T130432 LOCATION:110 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Tangible User Interfaces: Student Project Exhibition TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20091203tui END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20091119T080000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20091119T180000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:15025@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Prospective I School students are invited to an online chat with current students.\n\n This "Virtual Open House" will be held from 8:00–9:00 am PST (16.00–17.00 GMT) and again from 5:00–6:00 pm PST (01.00–02.00 GMT Friday).\n\n If you are considering applying to the School of Information, we invite you to login and chat with current students, get students' perspective and advice, and learn more about life at the I School.\n\n Connect to the Admissions Chatroom\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20091116T115503 LOCATION: STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Online Admissions Chat TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20091119onlineadmissionschat END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20091117T123000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20091117T140000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:15045@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Bill Schilit, Google Research, Book Search \n\nScanning books, magazines, and newspapers is widespread because people believe a great deal of the world's information still resides off-line. In general after works are scanned they are OCR'ed, indexed for search and processed to add links. In this talk I will describe a new approach to automatically add links by mining repeated passages. This technique connects elements that are semantically rich, so strong relations are made. Moreover, link targets point within rather than to the entire work, facilitating navigation. Our system has been run on a digital library of many millions of books (Google Book Search), has been used by thousands of people, and has generated the world's largest collection of quotations. I will also present a follow-on project based on the theory that authors copy passages from book to book because these quotations capture an idea particularly well: Jefferson on liberty; Stanton on women's rights; and Gibson on cyberpunk. These projects suggest that mining quotations for links and ideas is an important mechanism for understanding the knowledge contained in books. LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20091117T105913 LOCATION:110 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Revealing a web of knowledge: mining quotations and ideas from a very large digital library of books TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20091117schilit END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20091113T150000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20091113T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:14955@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tom Moritz \n\nFor decades there has been a general recognition that data should be freely and effectively available for use. (The scientific method assumes the availability of data for replication or falsification of results.) A variety of countervailing pressures have impeded such access and use. Recently, the European Union, the US National Academies, the Ecological Society of America, GBIF (the Global Biodiversity Information Facility), the NSF OCI DataNet initiative and have all been exploring new models for full life cycle management of data.\n\n In well funded, "big science" domains, models for data management incorporating community standards, metrics and best practices have evolved to provide for access and use. In small science such models are less well developed. This talk will consider data and emerging developments in data curation and dissemination — focusing on "small science" and on effective applications of data to policy formation and decision making. \n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20091104T095913 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Data as Evidence TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias/20091113moritz END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20091111T180000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20091111T193000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:12713@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Leslie Rule, KQED \n\nLocative media contextualizes space. It is part mapping and cartography; part storytelling and narrative, part art, part archeology, architecture, and anarchism. Locative media is based in geography and GIS, both neo and traditional. Locative media is mobile and gadget oriented, defined by longitude and latitude, but often found online. Great thanks to the geo-nerds for developing the software and building the handhelds.\n\n It is Baudelaire, Benjamin, de bord, de Certeau, the Situationists, and the Fluenerus. It is the nature poets that give voice to place, and place-based educators who free kids from four walls, creating a critical pedagogy of place. But at its heart lies Yi-Fu Tuan, who explicates “space into place.”\n\n Locative media offers spatially organized interfaces for buildings, annotations of place for journeys, and tries its best to encourages social action. It is theory and practice; de facto, phenomenological, loving Hegel and encapsulated by this stanza, part of the Four Quartets by TS Eliot:\n\n "We shall not cease from exploration/And the end of all our exploring/Will be to arrive where we started/And know the place for the first time." LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20091030T091116 LOCATION:340 Moffitt Library, near the Free Speech Cafe STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Locating Ourselves: Delving into place-based storytelling TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/dfls/20091111leslierule END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20091106T150000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20091106T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:14954@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Clifford Lynch \n\nAfter a quick around-the-table for announcements, I'm going to first cover questions about new storage and computational models for very large scale digital preservation, with particular focus on the issues raised by work going on in the resilient computing area, which I will summarize. This will help to shape a new research agenda for digital preservation. \n\n If there's enough time, I'll follow this up with a re-visiting of some of the talk that I gave last week at the inagural Kaplan symposium at Penn State, which examines the relationships between fundamental American values of free speech and freedom of the press and related ideas of rights of access to knowledge and information. There are some surprisingly deep problems here, including the relationships among "knowledge", "information", "entertainment" and "culture". \n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20091104T095312 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Very Large Scale Preservation; Free Speech and Access to Knowledge TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias/20091106lynch END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20091104T160000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20091104T173000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:12585@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Andrew McAfee \n\nIn 1987 Robert Solow observed that "We see evidence of the computer age everywhere except in the productivity statistics." In 2009, the situation is utterly changed; a large and growing body of evidence reveals that IT is affecting not only productivity, but also competition. And technology's impact is not limited to only a few industries, but is instead being felt throughout the economy. Dr. McAfee will first present evidence of IT's deep and broad impact, then offer an explanation for how the humble computer could be having such a large effect. The "Computer Revolution" in business is actually four distinct but related developments. McAfee will describe each of them, then use case studies to show how leading companies are taking advantage of them to advance within their industries.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20091028T163320 LOCATION:202 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:The Revolution Will be Digitized: How IT is Affecting Business and Competition TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/dls20091104 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20091030T150000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20091030T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:12695@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Isaac Mao \n\nAs we mark 40 years since the transformation of the Internet from a single meme into a global communication tool, it's time for us to imagine that the future of the Internet could be both socialized to connect all people and materialized to connect all things. Considering the speed with which we now connect, a high level of global consciousness could emerge with active sharism around the world. This kind of emergent power could be showcased soon in some rapidly wired countries like China to see its constructive potential in politics and society.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20091022T155423 LOCATION:202 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:The Future of Sharism: Social Media's Impact in China TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias20091030 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20091029T173000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20091029T183000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:11109@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:The School of Information will be hosting an open house for prospective graduate students. Classes during the day will be open for visitation starting as early as 9:00 am and ending at 5:30 pm. Feel free to attend any that look interesting to you, or just come for the information session at 5:30 pm in Room 110 of South Hall.\n\n The courses that will be open to prospective students during the Open House include:\n\n INFO 237: Intellectual Property Law for the Information Industries INFO 242: XML Foundations INFO 256: Applied Natural Language Processing INFO 257: Database Management - cancelled INFO 262: Theory and Practice of Tangible User Interfaces INFO 290 (sec 2): Web Architecture To RSVP for the event or for more information, please email admissions [at] ischool [dot] \n\n More information and other admissions events\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20091028T102557 LOCATION:110 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Prospective Student Open House TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20091029openhouse END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20091028T160000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20091028T173000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:11541@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Hal Varian, Chief Economist, Google \n\nThese days nearly every economic transaction involves a computer in some form or other. What does this mean for economics? I argue that the ubiquity of computers enables new and more efficient contractual forms, better alignment of incentives, more sophisticated data extraction and analysis, creates an environment for controlled experimentation, and allows for personalization and customization. I review some of the long and rich history of these phenomena and describe some of their implications for current and future practices. LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20091028T140515 LOCATION:202 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Computer Mediated Transactions TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/dls20091028 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20091023T150000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20091023T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:11499@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Patrick Schmitz \n\nBerkeley Prosopography Services (BPS) is an open-source prosopographical toolkit that generates interactive visualizations of the biological and social connections that link documented individuals, providing a dynamic and heuristic tool for researching historical communities documented in legal and administrative archives. We are currently exploring and developing a prototype application with a single target corpus, but will soon expand to support multiple corpora. The initial corpus is a set of Hellenistic Babylonian legal texts (cuneiform tablets). I'll describe our architecture and the tools we're using, and describe our plans for the next year or so.\n\n CollectionSpace is a collaboration that brings together a variety of cultural and academic institutions with the common goal of developing and deploying an open-source, web-based software application for the description, management, and dissemination of museum collections information. Berkeley is responsible for the development of the services back-end, which follows seach-engine optomization (SOA) principles adapted to this domain. I'll talk about the overall project architecture and organization, and some of the new approaches we've developed to services architecture, SOA methodology, and SOA governance. Pilot deployments of CollectionSpace are underway with the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, and with the Herbaria collections.\n\n Both of these projects fit into a longer term mission in IST-Data Services to build a platform of reusable, interoperable services that support research and teaching. See Using Natural Language Processing and Social Network Analysis to study ancient Babylonian society and Collection management systems for campus museums: CollectionSpace 0.1 released.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20091019T131246 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Berkeley Prosopography Services and CollectionSpace TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias20091023 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20091021T163000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20091021T180000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:11495@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:For School of Information students and alumni.\n\n The School of Information will be hosting a Career Fair for careers related to Information Management and Systems. Company representatives will have the opportunity to meet I School students and alumni to discuss employment and internship opportunities.\n\n Alumni are welcome to attend as either recruiters or job seekers. For more information, email shirley [at] ischool \n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20091009T102711 LOCATION:110 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:School of Information Career Fair TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20091021careerfair END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20091016T150000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20091016T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:12580@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Katsumi Tanaka, Kyoto University \n\nWe describe a new concept for improving Web search performance and/or increasing the information credibility of search results using Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 content in a complementary manner. Conventional Web search engines still suffer from a low precision/recall ratio, especially for searching multimedia content (images, videos, etc.). The quality control of Web search is generally insufficient due to low publishing barriers. As a result, there is a large amount of mistaken and unreliable information on the Web that can have detrimental effects on users. This calls for technology that facilitates the judging of the trustworthiness or credibility of content and the accuracy of the information that users encounter on the Web. Such technology should be able to handle a wide range of tasks: extracting credible information related to a given topic, organizing this information, detecting its provenance, and clarifying background, facts, and other related opinions and their distribution. We propose and describe a concept of enhancing the search performance of conventional Web search engines and analyzing information credibility of Web information using the interaction between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 content. We also overview our recent research activities on Web search and information credibility based on this concept. LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20091015T091544 LOCATION:202 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Web Search and Information Credibility Analysis TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias20091016 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20091014T160000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20091014T173000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:11484@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Lecturer: Alessandro Acquisti \n\nWe show that Social Security numbers (SSNs) can be accurately predicted from widely available public data, such as individuals' dates and states of birth. Using only publicly available information, we observed a correlation between individuals' SSNs and their birth data, and found that for younger cohorts the correlation allows statistical inference of private SSNs, thereby heightening the risks of identity theft for millions of US residents. The inferences are made possible by the public availability of the Social Security Administration's Death Master File and the widespread accessibility of personal information from multiple sources, such as data brokers or profiles on social networking sites. Our results highlight the unexpected privacy consequences of the complex interactions among multiple data sources in modern information economies, and quantify novel privacy risks associated with information revelation in public forums. They also highlight how well-meaning policies in the area of information security can backfire, because of unanticipated interplays between policies and diverse sources of personal data.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20091008T092810 LOCATION:202 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Predicting Social Security Numbers From Public Data TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20091014deanslec END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20091007T180000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20091007T193000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:11523@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jessica Zarin Kessin (Development by Design Toys) \n\nA child’s job is to play. However, there are millions of children who do not have the option of toys that are designed with their needs and abilities in mind. Development by Design is changing that. DbD uses Universal Design principles to create toys and games that all children can engage in, learn from and, most importantly, have fun! DbD toys aid in the development of cognitive, motor, emotional and social skills by targeting forty skills in ten distinct areas of development. Developed with a pediatric occupational therapist, DbD toys allow kids, with or without special needs, the opportunity to develop new skills and have fun just being kids.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090921T160327 LOCATION:BCNM Commons, 340 Moffitt Library, near the Free Speech Cafe STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Play for All – All Children, All Abilities TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/dfls20091007 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20091007T163000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20091007T180000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:11494@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:The Resumé Workshop and Alumni Mixer is an opportunity for current I School students to interact with alumni and solicit feedback for their resumés and online portfolios. \n\n The event will begin with a brief overview on resumé and portfolio building led by an I School faculty member. Then students will have the opportunity to network with I School alumni in small groups, to exchange ideas on how best to maximize their professional profiles.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090929T091704 LOCATION:110 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Resume Workshop and Alumni Mixer TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20091007resumeworkshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20091002T150000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20091002T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:11524@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Michael Buckland \n\nThe literature on library reference service has concentrated narrowly on empowering librarians to find answers for library users. Economic considerations and changes in technology make a compelling argument for a shift in emphasis to the support of reference self-service. Library users generally prefer to find explanations for themselves anyway if they can do so easily enough. A current project of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative and the School of Information entitled "Context and Relationships: Ireland and Irish Studies" seeks to provide a remedy. After several months experience with an initial prototype "Context Finder", a quite different design is being worked on. I will lead a discussion of some of the implications of enabling self-service discovery in relatively trustworthy resources, which are commonly digital versions of traditional print-on-paper reference works. We will examine the design implications for three groups: providers of office software (browsers, word processors); publishers of reference works; and librarians and bibliographers. \n\n More information is available at http://ecai.org/neh2007\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090930T094525 LOCATION:202 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Design for Future Reference Service TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias20091002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090930T180000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090930T193000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:11522@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Steve Portigal and Dan Soltzberg (Portigal Consulting) \n\nSteve Portigal and Dan Soltzberg will share findings from the Reading Ahead project, an exploration the evolution of reading and books from a consumer perspective – what it means to be a reader, how artifacts from traditional books to devices like Amazon’s Kindle affect the experience, and what the future might hold for readers, product developers, and others.\n\n Portigal Consulting is a bite-sized firm that bring together user research, design and business strategy to help innovative companies discover and act on new insights about themselves and their customers. We’ve conducted in-depth contextual research with telecommuters, musicians, bankers, new mothers, students, and dozens of others. We’ve worked with companies like Belkin, Bosch, Chevron, France Telecom-Orange, Hewlett-Packard, Nestle, Plantronics, and Sony to guide the development of new products and services.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090921T160337 LOCATION:BCNM Commons, 340 Moffitt Library, near the Free Speech Cafe STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Reading Ahead: Considering The Book’s Future in the iPod Era TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/dfls20090930 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090925T150000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090925T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:11485@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Catherine Marshall, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley \n\nUser-contributed tags have shown promise as a means of indexing multimedia collections by harnessing the efforts and enthusiasm of online communities. But tags are only one way of creating viable descriptions of multimedia collections. In this talk, I report on a study that takes a close look at the characteristics of public tags by comparing them to other forms of descriptive metadata that users have assigned to an image collection. I also use the study results to formulate design recommendations for tagging tools and to speculate on how photo sharing sites may be used as de facto art and architecture resources.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090923T092707 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:No Bull, No Spin: Comparing Public Tags with other Descriptive User Metadata TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias20090925 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090924T080000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090924T093000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:11502@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Robert J. Glushko \n\nKeynote talk at IEEE SCC 2009 \n International Conference on Services Computing \n September 21-25, 2009\n\n Many of the most complex service systems being built and imagined today combine person-to-person  encounters, technology-enhanced encounters, self-service, computational services, multi-channel, multi-device, and location-based or context-aware services. I examine the characteristic concerns and methods for these seven different design contexts to propose some unifying themes that span them, especially when the service-system is “information-intensive.” \n \n Information-intensive services are those in which information processing or information exchange, rather than physical or interpersonal actions, account for the greatest proportion of the co-created value. From this more abstract perspective, a service encounter consists of a provider/producer, a client/customer/consumer/requestor/co-producer, and an interface that describes what the service does and how it is requested.  This interface is usually implicit in person-to-person encounters, but is always explicit in the other contexts, where service inputs and outputs must be well-defined to enable technology infusion or automation. \n \n This conceptualization of service system design makes it easier to see the systematic relationships among the contexts that can be exploited as design parameters or patterns, such as the substitutability of stored or contextual information for person-to-person interactions. It enables more top-down and robust design of service systems because decisions about functionality and responsibility can be made prior to and independently of decisions about implementation.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090917T095313 LOCATION:IEEE SCC 2009 Conference, Bangalore, India STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Seven Contexts for Service System Design TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20090924glushko END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090918T150000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090918T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:11455@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Julian Warner, the Queen's University, Belfast \n\nThis paper approaches U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Feist vs. Rural (1991) from an information science perspective, rather than focusing on its legal aspects . Analogies are found between concepts in the widely circulated public discourse of Feist and distinctions between forms of mental labor recently introduced to information science. The delineation of the absence of creativity in Feist is analogous to syntactic mental labor and the judgment's criteria for creativity can be encompassed by semantic labor. The validity and significance of the distinction between syntactic and semantic mental labor is supported by the discovery of corresponding concepts in the judgment.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090916T082836 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Creativity in Feist TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias20090918 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090911T150000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090911T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:11454@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Doug Oard \n\nSpeech recognition and machine translation techniques are evolving rapidly, creating new opportunities to build systems that can support information seeking in large collections of multilingual and multimedia content. Little is presently known, however, about how people would use such systems to accomplish real tasks. In such circumstances, designers naturally rely on their own judgment to decide how component capabilities should be optimized and how those components should be integrated. Once that's been done, the next step is to put the resulting system in the hands of users in order to learn what they do with it. In this talk, I will describe what we have learned so far from such a process. I'll start with some background on user-centered evaluation for cross-language information retrieval at the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). I will then introduce Rosetta, an integrated system that supports search and display of live and archived news feeds in four languages for users who know only English and I'll explain how we have used a formative evaluation process to co-evolve both the design of the system and of the ways in which it can be used. I'll conclude the talk with a few design ideas that build on what we have learned to date. LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090901T103514 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Finding Things You Can't Read: Interactive Cross-Language Search for Monolingual Users TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias20090911 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090909T190000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090909T210000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:11493@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dave Winer \n\nLocal blogger Dave Winer, one of the originators of the RSS syndication format, will talk about a new proposal called rssCloud, which allows for Twitter-like instantaneous distribution of short messages in a decentralized way, based on existing RSS technology.  \n\n After an overview of that proposal, developers can share their own work in the area and there will be an open discussion.\n\n The meetup is open to all, but primarily for developers. The goal is to bootstrap the loosely-coupled 140 character message network. One that's open on all sides, so anyone can add an aggregator, cloud server or authoring tool, yet still have the feel of a centralized system. There may be tradeoffs, but the benefits of not having a company at the center of the network should create great opportunities for news organizations, innovative developers, designers, businesses, and users everywhere. Twitter is great, but we want something that works better for all of us.\n\n More about rssCloud\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090911T120143 LOCATION:110 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:rssCloud Meetup 2.0 TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20090909rsscloud END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090830T120000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090830T150000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:11211@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:The UC Berkeley School of Information invites all I School students, faculty, staff, alumni, and their families to attend our Back to School Barbecue. Come welcome our newest class to the I School family. Join in the food and fun!\n\n RSVP by Monday, August 24th to BBQ [at] ischool . \n\n Let us know if you’re bringing children — if there’s a critical mass of kids, we’ll be sure to add some extra fun for them! Also, if you’re in need of special accommodations, please let us know at the time of your RSVP.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090806T135502 LOCATION:South Hall lawn STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Back to School Barbecue TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20090830barbecue END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090828T150000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090828T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:11451@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Clifford Lynch \n\nContinuing and extending a discussion at last year's seminar, I'll explore some of the potential for building new computational services that can function as new instruments for the humanities and social sciences (and indeed for many other areas of investigation) and relate them to developments in text and data mining and information retrieval. I will highlight a number of recent experiments in this area. Finally, I'll frame questions about how such instruments might be deployed, and by what organizations. LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090826T083829 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Building Computational Instruments for the Humanities and Social Sciences TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias20090828 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090828T090000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090828T171500 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:11163@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:(map)\n\n The so-called “Google Books Settlement”, a proposed legal settlement agreement between Google and a group of publishers and authors, would allow Google to provide greater access to even more books than at present and to offer some new services.\n\n Yet such a settlement would also have a profound influence on future digitization efforts, the marketplace for books, the role of libraries, scholarly research, and the general user's right to access information and maintain privacy.\n\n It is important for academics, commercial information services, librarians, policy makers, and the public to understand both the opportunities and the risks that may flow from the October scheduled US District Court's fairness hearing in the case.\n\n The School of Information is hosting a one-day conference on August 28th to address major issues arising from the proposed settlement. A series of panels will discuss:\n\n the right of the public to have access to works embraced by such a settlement the questions of privacy inevitably arising from creating and controlling access to such a collection the potential for and restrictions on research into the content and use of such a collection the quality of the content and the metadata surrounding it This one-day conference will bring together a range of voices and opinions and will, it is hoped, lead to a more informed debate both before and following the court's decision.\n\n Confirmed panelists include:\n\n Peter Brantley, Director of Access, Internet Archive Dan Clancy, Engineering Director, Google Book Search Colin Evans, Principal Data Wizard, Freebase.com, co-author of "Programming the Semantic Web" Dan Greenstein, Vice Provost for Academic Planning, Programs and Coordination in the Division of Academic Affairs, University of California Office of the President Carla Hesse, Dean of Social Sciences, College of Letters & Science, UC Berkeley Tom Leonard, University Librarian, UC Berkeley Mark Liberman, Trustee Professor of Phonetics in the Department of Linguistics, Professor of Computer and Information Science, and Director of the Linguistic Data Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania James Love, Director, Knowledge Ecology International Clifford Lynch, Director of the Coalition for Networked Information Angela Maycock, Office for Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association Geoffrey Nunberg, Adjunct Professor, School of Information, UC Berkeley Jim Pitman, Professor of Statistics, UC Berkeley Jason Schultz, Associate Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic at U.C. Berkeley School of Law; fellow, Electronic Frontier Foundation. Molly S. Van Houweling, Assistant Professor of Law, UC Berkeley Michael Zimmer, Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies; Associate, Center for Information Policy Research; University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Full conference schedule\n\n Due to space limitations, the conference is by invitation only. For more information, please contact GBS [at] ischool .\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090928T111303 LOCATION:Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:The Google Books Settlement and the Future of Information Access TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20090828googlebooksconference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090812T140000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090812T153000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:11045@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Deirdre Mulligan \n\nWhat role should the law play in the creation of more secure or trustworthy networks? Fred Schneider of Cornell University and I argue that it does little to structure incentives or direct activity to drive cybersecurity. As Washington reconsiders the government's role in network security, we set forth a new legal framework for cybersecurity.\n\n We argue for a theoretical reorientation, and we reject the standard siren call for the production of "secure" systems and networks, even though this still dominates policy circles and drives legal approaches. It will be better to focus on managing the inevitable insecurity that comes from the constant vulnerabilities and adversaries we face. The rich mix of legal authorities and institutions that comprise the public health infrastructure makes a useful departure point for considering the range of legal mechanisms and institutions that could aid in cybersecurity. Leveraging the law in a sophisticated and comprehensive manner to address market failures stemming from information gaps, externalities, and cognitive biases is essential to achieving and maintaining a level of security appropriate to the activities occurring on the Internet today and in the future.\n\n We believe the law has been undertheorized and underutilized for network security and trustworthiness. Absent a concerted effort to consider the possible contributions of the law toward managing insecurity on networks, the Internet will grow increasingly less secure and there will be immense and, ultimately, regrettable pressure to build networks that provide greater security in a narrow sense (secrecy, confidentiality, integrity, and availability) at substantial cost to other shared values such as openness, transparency, and privacy. \n\n More information\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090520T165805 LOCATION:USENIX Security Symposium, Montreal, Canada STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Toward a New Legal Framework for Cybersecurity TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20090812mulligan END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090712T173000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090712T193000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:11026@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Friends and alumni of the School of Information (I School), the School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS), the School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS), and the School of Librarianship are cordially invited to the UC Berkeley School of Information Alumni & Friends Reception, during the annual conference of the American Library Association.\n\n I School Alumni & Friends Reception \n American Library Association Annual Conference \n Sunday, July 12, 2009 \n 5:30 – 7:30 pm\n\n The Blackstone Hotel \n 636 S. Michigan Avenue \n Chicago, Illinois 60605\n\n Space is limited — make your reservation today!\n\n For more information or to R.S.V.P., contact Kristi Mitchell at kristi [at] ischool or 510-643-4206\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090625T171849 LOCATION:The Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, Illinois STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Alumni and Friends Reception TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20090712alareception END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090516T140000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090516T140000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:10540@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:The commencement ceremony honors the class of 2009 with student speakers, keynote speaker John Markoff, and presentation of the James R. Chen Awards.\n\n Reception in South Hall immediately following the ceremony.\n\n Keynote Speaker: John Markoff John Markoff is a senior writer for The New York Times, where he covers computer and technology issues. He is the author of The High Cost of High Tech, published by Harper & Row in 1985; Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, written with Katie Hafner and published in 1991 by Simon and Schuster; and Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of America's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw, written with Tsutomu Shimomura and published by Hyperion in 1996. He is completing a book on the history of events that led to the creation of the personal computer in Silicon Valley during the two decades leading up to 1975.\n\n Among his many awards, Marketing Computers magazine in 2003 named Markoff one of the nation's most influential technology reporters. The New York Times has nominated him three times for a Pulitzer Prize.\n\n Before joining the Times in 1988, Markoff worked for The San Francisco Examiner, Pacific News Service, Byte Magazine, Infoworld and the San Jose Mercury News. He received his undergraduate degree from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, and a master's degree in sociology from the University of Oregon. He has taught at Stanford since 2002.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090515T092604 LOCATION:Campanile Esplanade STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:School of Information Commencement TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/commencement2009 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090514T160000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090514T200000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:10418@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Final projects are the culmination of the students' two years of work in the School of Information's Master's program. The Class of 2009 will present their final projects in three tracks: Organizational Issues; Social Networking and Collaboration; and Communication and Memory. Some projects are prototype information systems, some are written theses, and all are innovative.\n\n Schedule 4:00 pm\n\n Showcase of all presentations \n 110 South Hall\n\n   Reception, with hors d'oeuvres, drinks, and an opportunity to talk further with the members of the project teams\n\n 5:15 - 8:00 pm\n\n Full, twenty-five minute project presentations, in three tracks \n 110, 202, and 205 South Hall\n\n Each project track will be judged by an invited panel of professionals from outside of the School of Information who will select one outstanding project within each track for a James R. Chen Award, as well as up to two honorable mentions. Awards will be announced during Commencement on May 16.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090514T111844 LOCATION:South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Master's 2009 Final Project Showcase TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20090514finalprojects END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090511T161000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090511T180000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:11013@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Students from INFO 290: Interface Aesthetics apply the graphic design principles learned in the course to a variety of projects. The showcase will include both print and electronic media, with each student preparing two or more projects.\n\n Refreshments will be served.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090507T124820 LOCATION:110 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Interface Aesthetics Class Exhibition TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20090511exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090511T124500 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090511T140000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:10992@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Final student projects from INFO 290: Mixing and Remixing Information\n\n At the Open House, students will be presenting their semester-long projects, which all reuse or recombine information to create something new. We will be setting up the room for poster-style presentations. Light refreshments will be served. Please feel free to drop by anytime during the hour to see some demos and talk to the students. We think that you'll be impressed by the imagination and hard work of the projects.\n\n For more information, please contact feel contact course instructor Raymond Yee.\n\n Student Projects WattzonFacebook \n Becky Hurwitz\n\n Wattzon creates tools for people to understand the energy they use in the various activities of their lives. The company believes that if we know more about the embodied energy consumption of the things and activities in our lives, that we will begin to look for alternative things and activities to reduce our personal energy consumption. I believe that we might use even less energy if we know more about other people’s energy uses. This mashup is a Facebook application that takes advantage of the Wattzon API to allow Facebook users to share their Wattzon energy consumption data with one another.\n\n Personal Online Activity Aggregator \n Stephanie Pakrul\n\n Going a step beyond lifestreaming, this mashup collects data using a local desktop application and Drupal-based web app. Focused on data collected via the RescueTime service, it aggregates desktop and web browser activity, along with email and other communication logs, with publicly available RSS feeds. This provides a more complete picture of one’s computer and online activity in one central location, which can be shared online.\n\n India Votes \n Gopal Vaswani\n\n Indian General Election is the largest election held in the world and an average Indian is very much involved with the election process. There are discussions and debates in all quarters of the country about the effectiveness of the current government and predictions for the next government. I am motivated to help in this discussion and debate through the use of mixing-remixing course project. It is practically impossible to cover all aspects of the election for the purpose of this project so I have decided to focus on providing a small set of information which can help people conduct debates and discussion and know more about their constituency. Currently there is limited tool and information available online where a user can view the election history of any particular Indian constituency. People interested in politics would very much like to growth or decline of political parties over the years in a specific constituency. This data will satisfy the curious, prompt debate and might provide a prediction for the next election.\n\n Thanatosensitive.com \n Ben Cohen, Michael Lissner, and Nat Wharton\n\n As more and more personal information moves online, a need for digital curation develops that needs to be addressed. Thanatosensitive.com aims to help people manage their digital assets while they are alive so that after their death, a friend or family member can take specific actions on their behalf.\n\n Thanatosensitive.com is a django-based mashup between Facebook, Google, and Twitter. It allows you to import your Google contacts for use throughout the site, post a status update on Facebook, send one last tweet after your death, and to close your twitter account, should you desire.\n\n FoodieMash \n Andy Brooks and Donna Leo\n\n You’re hungry. You want to try a new restaurant in your area, but don’t want to surf multiple restaurant review sites. And you want to know what the restaurant or its food looks like. Does it look hip? Is the food presented as a work of art?\n\n FoodieMash takes user-contributed restaurant ratings from popular sites and presents them in a simple interface. Users enter the type of food they’d like to eat and we gather together the ratings for the matching restaurants that are in close proximity. Rather than having to separately navigate to Yelp, Yahoo Local, and other review sites to find a good restaurant, you can simply go to FoodieMash. And to help you better gauge if it’s your type of place, we show you a matching photograph from Flickr.\n\n Dora.fm \n Isaac Salier-Hellendag\n\n Dora (http://dora.fm) is a mashup of Pandora streaming internet radio and Twitter, the fast-growing “micoblogging” service. The goal is to streamline tweets about what Pandora’s playing for Twitter users, so that it’s easier to communicate and share your thoughts about the music you’re hearing, and maybe explore some new music while you’re at it. Sure, Gtalk and AIM provide a way for you to broadcast info about your iTunes music through your status/away message. But if we’re talking music and status updates in ‘09, Pandora and Twitter are where it’s at.\n\n Users can add @replies, RT’s, or any other message to their tweet to add their thoughts on their music or whatever else comes to mind. They can also include a dora.fm link that will lead their followers to a Dora page with information about the song they tweeted, plus a brief sample of the song and an option to quickly create a new Pandora station based on the song. Dora users can also access a “profile” page for their Dora tweets (ex. http://dora.fm/u/dorafm), where they can see how many visitors have clicked their dora.fm links and how many users have created stations based on the songs they’ve tweeted.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090511T131909 LOCATION:110 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Mixing and Remixing Information: Open House TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20090511mri-openhouse END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090501T150000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090501T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:10977@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ryan Shaw \n\nLast semester I presented progress on mining texts for descriptions of events by looking for statistically significant co-occurrences of dates and names. This semester I will present progress on mining descriptions of events from a rather more structured source: Wikipedia chronologies. Wikipedia has a great many chronology or timeline articles that are rich sources of 1 or 2 sentence event descriptions. By scraping these articles and parsing the individual chronology entries into event representations, using the Wikipedia links as a high-quality form of named entity detection, I can quickly assemble databases of events. I have been experimenting with making these events available on the web as Linked Data and queryable via SPARQL. LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090422T110343 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Mining Events from Wikipedia TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20090501ias END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090429T150000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090429T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:10972@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:A poster session with the top entries in the 2009 CITRIS White Paper Competition will be followed by the award ceremony for the judged winners. This event is free, open to the public and refreshments will be served. \n\n The thirteen finalists include two I School master's final projects. "Squash & Vine", by Aylin Selcukoglu, Hazel Onsrud, and Shawna Hein, is an information infrastructure to foster communication in the local food community and connect local farmers, consumers, restaurants, and retailers. "Hyoumanity," by Jonathan Hicks and Xiaomeng Zhong, seeks to improve awareness of persistent medical nondiagnosis and misdiagnosis and to empower patients and doctors to resolve complex cases.\n\n The white paper competition is part of the Bears Breaking Boundaries contest, a series of “idea competitions” to encourage student teams to propose the next generation of research, education, and service activities on the UC Berkeley campus.\n\n Winners will be announced immediately following the poster session.\n\n More information...\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090421T120308 LOCATION:Jean & E. Floyd Kvamme Atrium, Sutardja Dai Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:IT For Society Competition: Finalist Presentations TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20090429citriscompetition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090424T150000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090424T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:10976@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Clifford Lynch \n\nI've been asked to write a short chapter for a book being published in celebration of the work of the late Jim Gray (who has spoken in the Seminar in the past), particularly his vision of a 4th paradigm of scientific inquiry based on data intensive science within which the earlier approaches of theory, experiment and simulation might be unified. My talk will present and test the main theses of this chapter. After very briefly summarizing some of Jim's ideas, I'll explore what this 4th paradigm might mean for the evolution of scholarly communication and the scholarly record, both looking backwards at the evolution of the traditional scholarly journal article and also into more speculative ideas such as open notebook science. LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090422T110010 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:The Scholarly Journal and the 4th Paradigm of Science TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20090424ias END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090423T140000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090423T180000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:10971@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Five finalists for in the Science, Technology & Engineering Policy (STEP) White Paper Competition will present their projects for a panel of judges.\n\n The finalists include "KnowPrivacy", by I School master's students Joshua Gomez, Ashkan Soltani, and Travis Pinnick.\n\n The white paper competition is part of the Bears Breaking Boundaries contest, a series of “idea competitions” to encourage student teams to propose the next generation of research, education, and service activities on the UC Berkeley campus.\n\n Winners will be announced on April 29, 2009.\n\n More information...\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090421T120136 LOCATION:Morrison Foerster Lounge, Simon Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:STEP White Paper Competition: Finalist Symposium TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20090423stepcompetition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090422T160000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090422T173000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:10466@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Seán Ó Riain, National University of Ireland, Maynooth \n\nCo-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Department of Sociology\n\n High tech growth in recent decades has been built on a system of open innovation, organized through an infrastructure of "global regions" which connect and blend public and corporate spaces. Through an examination of the Irish high tech region (and its connections with Silicon Valley) the role of the "developmental network state" in shaping this growth is outlined. The state's role has been less in the form of planning or disciplining capital than in constituting new actors, shaping and selectively supporting particular actors and types of action, and sponsoring new patterns of social relations. Current challenges to the developmental network state emerge from financialization, weak investments in social reproduction, and the attempt by corporations and states themselves to control public spaces of innovation. Developmental network states are under threat from new forms of "market managerialism" within the state itself.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090612T123837 LOCATION:202 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Making the High Tech Economy: Markets, States, and Publics TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20090422oriain END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090417T150000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090417T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:10950@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Mari Miller & Avi Rappoport \n\nMari Miller: The Economics of Open Access Mari Miller, librarian and liaison to the I School, will review issues in the economics of open access and resources she has been exploring for a bibliography on the open access movement (books, articles, blogs, websites, etc.). She will show where they are located online and in the library, and propose a collaborative model for developing it further.\n\n Avi Rappoport: Metadata, Sex, and Amazon Amazon failed in a big way on Easter weekend, and because it is responsible for about a third of all electronic commerce in the United States, it matters. If Amazon won't sell a book, or will sell it but will "de-list" it, the book practically disappears. The ways Amazon failed are many: it did not (and still doesn't) have a clear policy on adult (sex and sexuality) content, and there is evidence that it deals with adult materials in special ways. It placed too great a reliance on metadata. The technical infrastructure was too flexible, allowing changes without approval. Its communications to its customers, authors and the media were worse than nothing. And it had the bad luck to make a significant mistake regarding people who are highly articulate and communicative, at a moment when there are technology tools to support them, and the bad judgment to stay silent hoping it would go away. \n\n Avi Rappoport is a metadata and search engine consultant with Search Tools Consulting.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090422T110113 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:"The Economics of Open Access" and "Metadata, Sex, and Amazon" TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20090417ias END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090417T080000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090419T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:8634@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:The 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2009) will be held 17-19 April 2009 at Carnegie-Mellon's state-of-the-art campus in Doha, Qatar. This conference will act as a focal point for new scholarship in the field of ICT and international development. Confirmed speakers include a keynote by William H. Gates, Chairman of Microsoft Corporation.\n\n The goal of the ICTD conference is to provide a forum for academic researchers and scholarly practitioners working with ICT applied to development. The conference will bring together researchers and reflective practitioners in both the social and technical sciences, with anticipated representation from anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, computer science, electrical engineering, industrial design, and the like, in addition to domain specialists in various development fields such as healthcare, agriculture, enterprise, education, governance, etc.\n\n For more information, see http://ictd2009.org/.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090330T160601 LOCATION:Doha, Qatar STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:ICTD 2009 Conference TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ictd20090417 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090415T160000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090415T173000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:10124@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Judith Estrin, Chief Executive Officer, JLABS, LLC \n\nInnovation drives economic growth, our quality of life and is the only hope of addressing the major challenges we face. But America, a cornerstone of innovation throughout the world, has become increasingly short-sighted. By taking innovation for granted we threaten not only our own strength, but the overall global economy. Judy Estrin, technology and business pioneer and author of the new book Closing the Innovation Gap, will talk about how it is essential to reignite sustainable innovation in business, education and government and what is required of business and national leaders to revive organizational, national and the global Innovation Ecosystem.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090409T152513 LOCATION:202 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Sustainable Innovation TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/dls20090415 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090414T150000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090414T150000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:10327@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Pamela Samuelson \n\nThe legal settlement between authors and book publishers and Google regarding the company's indexing and book scanning project will be the focus of the University of North Carolina's third annual OCLC/Frederick G. Kilgour Lecture in Information and Library Science.\n\n Pamela Samuelson, the Richard M. Sherman ’74 Distinguished Professor of Law and Information at the University of California at Berkeley and director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology will present "Reflections on the Google Booksearch Settlement" in the Auditorium of the Frank Porter Graham Student Union on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus at 3 p.m. A reception will follow.\n\n The lecture is hosted by the School of Information and Library Science at UNC at Chapel Hill. The event is free and open to the public, however seating is limited. Please send your RSVP via e-mail to mpenny [at] email [dot] unc [dot] edu or call 919.962.8366.\n\n The OCLC/Frederick G. Kilgour Lecture in Information and Library Science is funded through a special endowment from the OCLC Online Computer Library Center to honor Dr. Frederick G. Kilgour. The fund supports an annual lecture bringing together scholars and leaders from around the world to share innovative ideas and cutting-edge research.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090518T085618 LOCATION:University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Reflections on the Google Booksearch Settlement TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20090414samuelson END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090401T160000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090401T160000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:10451@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Andrew Lih, new media researcher and technology author \n\nThe Wikipedia Revolution is the first narrative account of the remarkable success story of the "encyclopedia anyone can edit." Andrew Lih, a Wikipedia editor/administrator, academic and journalist, tells how the Internet's free culture community inspired its creation in 2001, and how legions of volunteers have emerged to create over 10 million articles in over 50 languages. The book recounts colorful behind-the-scenes stories of how obsessive map editors, automated software robots, and warring factions have come to shape a complex online community of knowledge gatherers. Learn about the historical underpinnings of Wikipedia: how a Hawaiian vacation and a fringe piece software from Apple Computer inspired the wiki concept and realized the original read-and-write capabilities of the Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web. While Wikipedia has become firmly planted at the top of Google's search results, what are the challenges as sum of all human knowledge becomes more complete, and its problem is not growth, but reliability? Should we be putting so much trust in a resource created by anonymous nobodies?\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090330T151829 LOCATION:202 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:The Wikipedia Revolution TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20090401lih END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090330T153000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090330T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:10421@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Stuart Shieber, Harvard University \n\nOn February 12, 2008, Harvard Arts and Sciences Faculty voted unanimously to adopt a policy that makes them the first university in the US to mandate open access to its faculty members’ research publications. The driving force behind the adoption of this policy was professor of computer science, Stuart Shieber. Professor Shieber currently heads Harvard’s Office of Scholarly Communication and will share his experience on how this ground-breaking policy was passed and what steps Harvard has taken to implement it.\n\n Read more about the Harvard Open Access policy at:\n\n Chronicle of Higher Education The New York Times Open Access News This event is co-sponsored by the Academic Senate Library Committee, the Library, and the School of Information.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090327T084532 LOCATION:Toll Room, Alumni House STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Stuart Shieber on Open Access TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20090330sl END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090320T150000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090320T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:10407@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Paul Duguid \n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090309T102116 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:The World According to grep: What Have We Been Searching For? TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20090320ias END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090317T170000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090317T183000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:10450@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Richard Esguerra, Electronic Frontier Foundation \n\nThe DeCal class "The Politics of Piracy" (Information 198) hosts Richard Esguerra of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.\n\n Visitors are welcome.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090316T100837 LOCATION:110 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Defending Your Civil Liberties in Cyberspace TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20090317esguerra END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090313T150000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090313T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:10394@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Michael Buckland \n\nThe editing of historical papers in projects such as the Emma Goldman Papers Project here on campus is a challenging undertaking in several ways. Such projects are hard to fund. The traditional product is a set of printed volumes which constrain the amount of editorial research that can be published. Relatively little use is made of digital technology and with current methods substantial duplication of effort appears to be unavoidable. \n\n In recent months we have been exploring ways in which some efficiency and return on investment might be improved. Some efficiencies might result from improved search support and editing tools. A new genre of web-published "Editors Notes" might very beneficially complement the print volumes, improve access, and reduce duplicative effort.\n\n I will lead a discussion of the challenges and how they might be addressed.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090305T103624 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Editing Historical Papers in a Digital Environment TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias20090313 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090311T180000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090311T193000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:10282@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jane Pinckard (Foundation 9 Entertainment & GameGirlAdvance) \n\nThe Berkeley Center for New Media Commons is located at 340 Moffitt Library, near the Free Speech Cafe (map).\n\n Video games compete for consumer attention not only with books and films, but also with the vast variety of social application across mobile and internet platforms. Designing for the future has to respond creatively to the shifts represented by the developments of social interactive spaces in digital media. What are some of the trends in consumer behavior? How can game design grow to accommodate and exploit new social media? What design principles can emerge from new social technologies, and how will they in turn influence the future of entertainment as a whole?\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090921T160355 LOCATION:BCNM Commons, 340 Moffitt Library STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Designing for the Future of Interactive Entertainment TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/dfls20090311 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090311T160000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090311T173000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:10337@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. John Rutledge, global economist \n\nFor 35 years, Dr. John Rutledge has traveled the world advising governments, corporations, pension funds and individual investors on how to create, grow and manage wealth. Dr. Rutledge appears weekly on Forbes on Fox, and is co-host of Fox Business' new live call-in show for people who want to start their own businesses. In his most recent book, Lessons from a Road Warrior, Dr. Rutledge traces the development of his ideas from his boyhood lessons in Winthrop Harbor, Illinois, to his easy-to-understand thermo-economics framework for investing that shapes the way he sees the world today. He uses this thermodynamics-based framework, as well as recent advances in information theory, to help the reader understand the important economic, financial and political forces that shape our lives and determine the value of our homes and stock portfolios. \n\n Dr. Rutledge will focus largely on the book's later chapters on nonequilibrium thermodynamics, network failures and the information economy, and the role played by government officials and media in the neuroscience of fear to demonstrate how the current global economic crisis is a network failure of the worldwide information system. \n\n The market economy is nothing more than a vast, parallel-processing information network that uses prices to transmit information about scarcity and preferences. But when this information network confronts a world of investors in a prolonged state of fear, caused by the last decade of both terrifyingly real and imagined frightening events, the prevailing panic can lead to system-wide network failure. Dr. Rutledge will discuss how these elevated fear levels can combine with other market factors to obstruct the flow of information — creating cascading network failures, or blackouts, in the markets like the one we are experiencing today. He will also discuss ideas about how to use new media to diffuse the global fears that are driving people into conflict.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090305T141549 LOCATION:202 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Lessons from a Road Warrior TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/dls2090311 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090309T160000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090309T160000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:10302@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Philip Howard \n\nResearchers who study technology diffusion in a global and comparative manner often find that economic productivity explains differences in the diffusion rates of information and communication technologies. But researchers who study technology diffusion at a national or local level often find that politics and culture explains different diffusion rates. How do we make use of different kinds of conclusions drawn from different levels of analysis? Which types of policy reforms have an impact on technology adoption?\n\n In this talk I present some of the findings of the World Information Access Project, an Intel and NSF-funded endeavor to improve our understanding of inequality in the distribution of information and communication infrastructure within and between countries. Two benchmarking methods allow some comparative perspective on the global distribution of internet users, personal computers, mobile phones, internet hosts and bandwidth. The Technology Diffusion Index weights diffusion data by economic wealth to set into sharp relief the ways in which other factors — such as politics and culture — influences adoption. Gini coefficients demonstrate the uneven distribution of technology access over categories of social inequality such as education, income, and age. I will explain these indices and present some new findings from our time-series cross-sectional study of technology diffusion in 154 countries between 1990 and 2007.\n\n There are two key reasons for the unequal distribution of technologies over the last decade: economic disparities have prevented any meaningful "leap-frogging" in the development of information infrastructure; national privatization reforms in many telecommunications markets have not had consistent effects on technology adoption. Implications for public policy, industry, and research are evaluated.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090308T130225 LOCATION:202 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Explaining Inequality Within and Between Information Societies TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/sl20090309 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090306T150000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090306T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:10393@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:The weekly Information Access Seminar will feature a guided group tour of the newly remodeled Bancroft Library. Assemble as usual in South Hall 107 promptly at 3:10 p.m. and we will go over as a group. \n\n Try to avoid bringing bags, because any bags brought will have to be checked into a locker on arrival at Bancroft\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090305T103421 LOCATION:Meet in 107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Group Tour of Remodeled Bancroft Library TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias20090306 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090305T090000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090305T173000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:10391@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:An invitation-only workshop of the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection\n\n The Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P) is a consortium of leading national cyber-security institutions, including academic research centers, government laboratories and non-profit organizations. It was founded in September 2001 to help improve research and development (R&D) to protect the nation's information infrastructure against catastrophic failures. The institute's main role is to coordinate a national cyber-security R&D program and help build bridges between academia, industry and government. The I3P works toward identifying and addressing critical research problems in information infrastructure protection and opening information channels among researchers, policymakers, and infrastructure operators.\n\n More information and schedule: http://www.thei3p.org/events/wesii_march09.html\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090305T095129 LOCATION:110 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Workshop on the Economics of Securing the Information Infrastructure (WESII 2009) TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20090305wesii2009 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090304T163000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090304T180000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:10264@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:The School of Information will be hosting a Career Fair for careers related to Information Management and Systems. Company representatives will have the opportunity to meet I School students and alumni to discuss employment and internship opportunities.\n\n Company representatives who are interested in recruiting I School students and participating in the Career Fair should fill out the registration form at http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/careers/reg by February 27th.\n\n Alumni are welcome to attend as either recruiters or job seekers. For more information, email shirley [at] ischool \n\n We hope you can join us!\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090626T104609 LOCATION:110 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Career Fair TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20090304careerfair END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090304T160000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090304T180000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:10284@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: David Clark, MIT \n\nThe network research community has been challenging itself to conceive of what our global network of 15 years from now should be. While the Internet of today is a great success, it also has limitations that suggest it may not be well-positioned to meet all the requirements we will face as we move into the future.\n\n As we consider design options for a future network, we have come to realize that some of the original design decisions, while effective, were not the only way to go. In fact, we could have taken different forks in the road as we designed, and ended up in very different places, perhaps with a network that is equally effective at supporting a wide range of applications, but different in other ways: more secure, easier to install and manage, better aligned to motivate investment, and so on.\n\n In this talk, I will identify a few of these alternate designs, and describe how the network they would induce would differ from what we see today. In doing so, I will try to illustrate both the nature of the design process and the variation in outcomes.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090227T164108 LOCATION:202 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:The Internets We Did Not Build TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/sl20090304 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090227T150000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090227T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:10272@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Tuukka Ruotsala (Helsinki University of Technology) & Mikko Villi (University of Art and Design, Helsinki) \n\nVisual mobile communication: Camera phone photographs in mobile messaging (Mikko Villi) I concentrate on photo messages (photographs taken with a camera phone and sent to another mobile phone). A salient aspect is the convergence of phone and camera — the phone being a communication device intended mainly for interpersonal communication, and, on the other hand, the camera being a device devoid of any means to directly communicate with other people. From this disparity rises the central question in my research: How does the convergence of photography and mobile phone communication affect our communicational and photographic practices? More information (PDF)\n\n Finnish CultureSampo: Cultural Heritage on the Semantic Web (Tuuka Ruotsala) Cultural heritage has recently become an important application area for semantic technologies. The current semantic technologies enable powerful ontology-based search and browsing capabilities for digital collections. However, many bottlenecks of semantic systems can be identified:\n\n quality of ontologies, mediation of heterogeneous content, and information visualization and access. I will present the publication concept and the online semantic portal CultureSampo, a system of creating a collective semantic memory of cultural heritage on a national level.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090226T101812 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Cultural Heritage and the Semantic Web TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias20090227 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090223T160000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090223T160000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:10329@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Toru Ishida, Dept. of Social Informatics, Kyoto University \n\nTo increase the accessibility and usability of online language services, this talk explains the Language Grid, which facilitates the creation of composite language services for various intercultural collaboration activities. The Language Grid is an initiative to build an infrastructure that allows end users to create new language services for their intercultural / multilingual activities. To this end, language resources (including data and programs) are wrapped as web services so that users can easily combine these services to create workflows that suit their own activities. Thus, the Language Grid can be seen as collective intelligence based on language services. The Language Grid is called "horizontal," when the grid connects standard languages, or "vertical," when the grid combines the language services generated by communities.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090223T130504 LOCATION:202 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:The Language Grid: Service-Oriented Collective Intelligence for Intercultural Collaboration TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20090223ishida END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090220T150000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090220T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:10298@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Megan Finn, Patrick Riley, Daniela Rosner, and others \n\nMegan Finn: Information Practices after Modern California Earthquakes This work will be a chapter of my dissertation which situates the information practices of early internet users after the 1989 earthquake in the context of California earthquakes. My hope is to make an argument that information practices after an earthquake are more enduring than the latest information technology.\n\n Patrick Riley: The Metadata of Live Television What if you could search for what is being mentioned on TV? What if you wanted to get an email alert as soon as the Berkeley I School is mentioned on live TV? Is there information we can gain from indexing everything ever said on TV at any given time, in terms of linguistics research, media monitoring, fact-checking, social media, and search query trends? Is TV metadata even important compared to the enormous production of social, user-generated media?\n\n A new search engine created at the Berkeley I School for indexing the metadata of live TV will be demonstrated by Patrick Riley, a Ph.D. student at the I School, and a discussion on metadata, copyright, media monitoring, and data mining will follow.\n\n Report and Discussion of the 2009 iSchools Conference by Daniela Rosner (and maybe others) The Fourth iSchools Conference brought together scholars and professionals who come from diverse backgrounds and share interests in working at the nexus of people, information, and technology. "The conference celebrates and engages our multidisciplinary efforts to understand the scholarly, educational, and engagement dimensions of the iSchool movement." A report from people who attended. See www.ischools.org/iconferences/participation.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090220T091647 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Student Progress Reports and iSchools Conference report TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias20090220 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090218T180000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090218T193000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:10281@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Bill Buxton, Microsoft Research \n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090921T160428 LOCATION:110 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Getting the Design Right and the Right Design TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/dfls20090218 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090213T150000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090213T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:10271@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speakers: David Greenbaum, Steve Masover, and Rich Meyer \n\nWe will give an overview and update on the Bamboo Planning Project, http://projectbamboo.org. Bamboo is a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary, and inter-organizational effort that brings together researchers in the arts and humanities, computer scientists, information scientists, librarians, and campus information technologists to tackle the question: "How can we advance arts and humanities research through the development of shared technology services?" The Bamboo Planning project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and led by UC Berkeley and the University of Chicago, is half way through its 18-month planning and community design process. Over 100 universities, colleges, and organizations concerned with digital humanities have participated in the planning process to date. In this presentation we will discuss some of the cultural, organizational, and technical opportunities and challenges in attempting to develop cyberinfrastructure across a highly diverse set of scholarly practices and institutions. LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090211T094737 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:The Bamboo Planning Project: Developing "Cyberinfrastructure" for the Arts, Humanities, and Interpretive Social Sciences TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias20090213 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090211T180000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090211T193000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:10274@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Erik Adigard, M-A-D Design \n\nErik Adigard’s body of work includes numerous visual essays for Wired magazine, branding campaigns for IBM, and commissions from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Saint-Etienne International Design Biennale, the Villette Numérique Biennale in Paris, Muffathalle in Munich and the Toronto Pearson International Airport. Most recently, his installation AirXY appeared at the 2008 Venice Biennale. Among his many awards, he received the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design. \n\n He will be speaking on the history of design, current questions, and future directions for thoughtful design practitioners.\n\n How can 21st century design move beyond simplistic processes to embrace the inherent complexity of things? How can design balance experimentation with urgent demands, and poetics with needed performance? How can design thinking enable new forms of interaction with our environment—an atmosphere that we are evolving from while destroying it? \n\n We may well need a strategy of unmaking. One that by filtering the space that we occupy takes us away from times of impossibilities and back into an “aerotopia” of new opportunities.\n\n The Berkeley Center for New Media Commons is located at 340 Moffitt Library, near the Free Speech Cafe (map).\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090921T160441 LOCATION:BCNM Commons, 340 Moffitt Library STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Design Futures Lecture: Erik Adigard TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/dfls20090211 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090211T120000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090211T130000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:10292@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jenna Burrell \n\nHosted by the Center Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS); sponsored by Infineon Technologies. \n\n Mobile phones are being rapidly and enthusiastically adopted in rural, even non-electrified regions in Uganda. The potential for engineering applications to effectively reach poor, rural populations is immense given this substantial baseline of technology use. These phone owners possess for the first time a small amount of digital data storage, some processing power, and network connectivity. In this talk I will argue against the notion that technologies impact society unidirectionally and will emphasize instead the creative role of users in making these devices useful and relevant within their own particular cultural context. A particular case is the successful repurposing of the phone to facilitate money transfers. This was accomplished by sending air-time codes via text message. In this way users have extended and improved the utility of the mobile phone. The local logic of money transfer is part of broader efforts to cope with resource-constraints and reflects a low-cost, lightweight solution for daily living, insurance, survival, and risk management. Engineering efforts that recognize and build upon the momentum of existing technology use have the potential to be far more efficient with resources and more broadly influential and more in tune with the interests of potential users than those that seek to introduce entirely novel devices and systems.\n\n More information at http://www.citris-uc.org/events/RE-Feb11\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090915T150014 LOCATION:290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Co-Evolution of the Mobile Phone and Users in Rural Uganda TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20090211ruraluganda END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090209T123000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090209T153000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:10273@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:The Google Geo Developer Workshop at Berkeley is a hands-on workshop devoted to Google Geo APIs. You'll get to see demos of what you can do with Google Maps, Mapplets, and Earth, and spend most of the time working on your own cool project. Googlers Mano Marks and Roman Nurik will be there to provide advice and technical assistance, and guide you through sample projects such as making an interactive campus map, displaying your observational data in Earth, or planning optimal routes between your classrooms and favorite lunch stops.\n\n For those who are just getting started with APIs, we'll have some code labs to help you learn the important stuff. For the more advanced developers, we'll help you out with your code.\n\n Come, bring your laptop, bring your data, and be prepared to code!\n\n For more information, please contact Raymond Yee ( rdhyee [at] ischool ). \n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090626T104851 LOCATION:110 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Google Geo Developer Workshop TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20090209geodevelopers END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090208T080000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090211T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:9206@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the iSchools Caucus\n\n The fourth annual iConference ("iSociety: Research, Education, Engagement") is sponsored by the iSchools Caucus.\n\n How does an iSchool become "green?" What is "engagement" in a research institution? How do we address underrepresented groups among iDesigners as well as iConsumers?\n\n These are just a few of the topics for discussion at the 2009 iSchools Conference—iSociety: Research, Education, Engagement.\n\n The Fourth Annual iSchools Conference brings together scholars and professionals who come from diverse backgrounds and share interests in working at the nexus of people, information, and technology. With invited speakers, paper sessions, a poster session, round table discussions, "wildcard" sessions, and ample opportunities for conversations and connections, the conference celebrates and engages our multidisciplinary efforts to understand the scholarly, educational and engagement dimensions of the iSchool movement.\n\n The iSchools Caucus consists of twenty-one information schools from across the US and Canada, interested in the relationship between information, technology, and people.\n\n For more information, see the iSchools Caucus website.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090208T141847 LOCATION:University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:iConference 2009 TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/iconference2009 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090206T150000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090206T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:10270@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Fredrik Wallenberg \n\nThere has been a continued debate about the benefits and cost associated with providing free samples of information goods on the Internet. Some argue that the samples lead to increased sales through increased awareness of the good while others claim that the previews and samples cannibalize sales. In this paper I present a unifying model where we show that information about the good, specifically samples/trial versions/previews, etc., of the good have both a sales promoting and cannibalizing effect and that either of the two can be dominant. I then set up an experiment in which I look at the impact on the sales of a specific set of books from the enabling of searching the contents and previewing of pages relevant to the search query. I find no significant impact on sales from the previews. The sample available to me is however on the small side and also from a very specific genre, both of which impact the results. LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090206T175920 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Judging a Book by its Cover: Online Previews and Book Sales TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias20090206 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20090204T160000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20090204T173000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:10123@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Oliver Guenther, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin \n\nThe much touted “Internet of Things” requires a global IT infrastructure providing information about "things" in a secure and reliable manner. The EPCglobal Network is a popular industry proposal for such an IT infrastructure. Here, the "things" referred to are physical objects carrying RFID tags with a unique Electronic Product Code (EPC). A DNS-based Object Naming Service (ONS) locates the information sources relevant for a given object. In this talk, we show that EPCglobal's current design harbors some serious privacy and security risks. We also discuss some counter-measures and their effectiveness. In particular, we show how distributed hash tables (DHTs) can be used to improve data access control to reduce dependencies on individual root name servers, and to increase privacy. The strength of privacy protection, however, depends on the availability of secure out-of-band key distribution mechanisms. LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090226T142803 LOCATION:202 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Security and Privacy in the Internet of Things TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/dls20090204 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20081211T103000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20081211T120000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:9938@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:\n\n An open house student project exhibition of the "Theory and Practice of Tangible User Interfaces" class.\n\n The Tangible User Interfaces course at the School of Information focuses on the physical interaction with computational media. Students design and develop experimental applications, underlying technologies, and theories using concept sketches, posters, physical mock-ups, working prototypes, and a final project report. \n\n The exhibition will take place on both Tuesday, December 9, and Thursday, December 11. All projects will be on exhibit both days.\n\n Stop by for some fun, food, and a chance to try the interfaces out for yourself!\n\n More information: Info 290: Theory and Practice of Tangible Interfaces\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20081205T125253 LOCATION:110 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Student Project Exhibition: Tangible User Interfaces TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/tui20081211 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20081209T103000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20081209T120000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:9937@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:\n\n An open house student project exhibition of the "Theory and Practice of Tangible User Interfaces" class.\n\n The Tangible User Interfaces course at the School of Information focuses on the physical interaction with computational media. Students design and develop experimental applications, underlying technologies, and theories using concept sketches, posters, physical mock-ups, working prototypes, and a final project report. \n\n The exhibition will take place on both Tuesday, December 9, and Thursday, December 11. All projects will be on exhibit both days.\n\n Stop by for some fun, food, and a chance to try the interfaces out for yourself!\n\n More information: Info 290: Theory and Practice of Tangible Interfaces\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20081205T130303 LOCATION:110 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Student Project Exhibition: Tangible User Interfaces TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/tui20081209 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20081205T183000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20081205T203000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:9866@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Comparative discussion of decentralized organizing and networking strategies at the World Social Forum, the Americas Social Forum, the European Social Forum, and the US Social Forum, with key organizers from each. What are the successes, failures, and further potentials of the Social Forum network models and how do each of these Forums organize differently and how do they benefit from the internet?\n\n This is a discussion for individuals and collectives interested in the Social Forums and in global social movements more generally. It precedes a weekend symposium on networked politics and technological tools at UC Berkeley, and is part of an ongoing collaborative research project on new forms of political organization.\n\n More information: networked-politics.info/berkeley Contact Mayo Fuster at mayo [dot] fuster [at] eui [dot] eu Organized and sponsored by: Networked Politics project, Transnational Institute, Transform! Italia, Glocal Barcelona, Funders Network on Trade and Globalization, International Forum on Globalization, Labor Tech, IUC Berkeley International Computer Science Institute, the UC Berkeley School of Information and the Global Commons Foundation. \n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090626T104518 LOCATION:The Mission Cultural Center Gallery (2868 Mission Street, Sa STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Movement Organizing, Technology and Networked Politics: The Experience of the Social Forums TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20081205conf END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20081203T180000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20081203T193000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:9389@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Leah Buechley, MIT Media Lab \n\nPeople knit scarves, build furniture, sew clothing, and solder radios together in their homes and garages. Diverse groups of people—girls and boys, grandparents and college students—lovingly engage in these hands-on low-tech hobbies. In contrast, companies produce high-tech things by high-tech processes, using teams of people and sophisticated machinery to build devices like cell phones, computers, pharmaceutical drugs, and cars. But this clear division between high-tech and low-tech is beginning to blur. A host of new tools is making many of the resources previously available only to companies accessible to individuals, empowering people to design, engineer, and build devices that integrate high and low technology.\n\n This talk will discuss this "new craft", envisioning a future in which individuals integrate traditional craft, engineering, and web-honed communication skills to build and share information about "high-low tech" devices like temperature sensing scarves, algorithmically generated furniture, and radically customized cell phones. The presentation will discuss burgeoning high-low tech communities, focusing on ways that professional designers and engineers can support and encourage this new creative movement. It will present examples of high-low tech artifacts—including embroidered circuits and paper computers—and examples of tools that empower others to construct high-low tech devices—including the LilyPad Arduino, a construction kit that enables novices to build fabric-based wearable computers.\n\n Map and directions to BCNM Commons LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090205T164750 LOCATION:BCNM Commons STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:New Craft: A Marriage of High and Low Tech TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/dfls20081203 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20081126T180000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20081126T193000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20091124T203325 UID:9388@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Erik Adigard, M-A-D \n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20090205T172720 LOCATION:BCNM Commons STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Design Futures Lecture: Erik Adigard TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/dfls20081126 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR