Information Access Seminar

Clifford Lynch passed away on April 10. A series of short reports by colleagues and friends illuminate his many and varied contributions.

The Friday afternoon Information Access Seminar is retiring after 69 consecutive semesters. Michael Buckland looks back over thirty-five years of the seminar.

Cathy Marshall is an adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. 

AnnaLee Saxenian breaks down the shift from Google’s 1998 mission “to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful” to today’s highly contested information ecosystem.

Suzanne Wones is the UC Berkeley University Librarian.

Rob Sanderson is senior director for digital cultural heritage at Yale University, where he works to harmonize and provide access to research quality data, in a human-oriented way.

David S. H. Rosenthal was the chief scientist and founder of Stanford’s LOCKSS program, aimed at long-term preservation of the web published materials.

Howard Besser founded New York University’s MA program in moving image archiving and preservation and is one of the Library of Congress’s “Pioneers of Digital Preservation”.

Vivien Petras is a professor of information retrieval at Humboldt University of Berlin.

Karen Coyle is a librarian with over four decades of experience with library technology. 

The history of corporations manipulating information to maintain clean identities after coming under attack.

The Chips Act subsidizes US and Taiwanese chip manufacturers to locate new facilities in the United States. What are the prospects for success?

Clifford Lynch is the director of the Coalition for Networked Information and an adjunct professor at the School of Information.

The recovery of of biographical pages webpages for a hundred North American pioneers of Information

Clifford Lynch is the director of the Coalition for Networked Information and an adjunct professor at the School of Information.

Cathy Marshall is an adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. 

Günter Waibel is associate vice provost & executive director of the California Digital Library.

Do economies of scale render cloud services inherently monopolistic? Nick Merrill’s new research suggests otherwise.

Clifford Lynch explores the problems and questions AI poses for preserving the digital cultural record.