Events

What happens when when learners develop peer-learning relationships with virtual humans and humanoid robots? And how can we design robots or digital avatars to support peer learning?

Rachel Kranton is the James B. Duke Professor of Economics at Duke University, where she studies how institutions and the social setting affect economic outcomes.

Zach Pardos is a researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology exploring data-driven methodologies to aid learners and educators using virtual learning environments.

Joshua Gans is the Jeffrey S. Skoll Professor of Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, where he specializes in technological competition and innovation, economic growth, publishing economics, industrial organization, and regulatory economics.

Catherine Chase is a postdoctoral scholar at Carnegie Mellon University; her research interests include sociable learning technologies, computer-based assessment, learning through contrast, and student motivation.

Joel Waldfogel is the Frederick R. Kappel Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management.

Information Access Seminar with Peter Brantley, director of scholarly communications at Hypothes.is.

A day-long symposium on dynamic data visualization of urban trends, the environment, education, and health and humanitarian response.

Student teams will present their applications to manage, analyze, and display Big Data from Twitter and other sources in innovative and intriguing ways.

The School of Information hosts the PNC annual conference, with the theme “New Horizons: Information Technology Connecting Culture, Community, Time, and Place.”

Design Futures Lecture, with Scott Doorley, creative director of the Stanford d.school.

Information Access Seminar, with David S. H. Rosenthal of the Stanford University LOCKSS project

A conversation with Mike Olson, co-founder and CEO of Cloudera, about Silicon Valley’s evolving ecosystem and the future of information technology in the age of Big Data.