Events

Previous Events

Transforming Health Care in the Information Age

Apr 10, 2013, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Jack Cochran, MD, FACS, is the executive director of The Permanente Federation

Public Search Interfaces to Plant Collection and Nuclear Forensics Search

Apr 5, 2013, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

National Parks & Digital Learning

Apr 3, 2013, 2:10 pm to 3:00 pm

Milton Chen will discuss work ongoing with the National Park System Advisory Board leading up to the National Parks Centennial in 2016.

Discussion of Biographical Data

Mar 22, 2013, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Matching and Searching Online

Mar 20, 2013, 12:40 pm to 2:00 pm

Ali Hortasçu is a professor in economics at the University of Chicago, where he studies auctions, industrial organizations, and search and matching models.

A Look Inside Facebook’s Graph Search

Mar 20, 2013, 11:10 am to 12:30 pm

Teaching 153K+ students at a time: The PowerSearching-WithGoogle.com story

Mar 19, 2013, 12:10 pm to 1:00 pm

InfoCamp Berkeley 2013

Mar 16, 2013, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

InfoCamp Berkeley is an unconference for anyone interested in user experience, information architecture, interaction design, information management, information design, librarianship, online search, informatics, or related fields.

MOOCs and Libraries

Mar 15, 2013, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Learning with Sociable Artifacts that Make Us More Human

Mar 14, 2013, 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm

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?

Strategic Interaction and Networks

Mar 13, 2013, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

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.

Predictive Models of Student Learning in K–16

Mar 11, 2013, 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm

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

Public Search Interfaces to Plant Collections & Exploring Social Norms with the Crowd

Mar 8, 2013, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Will the Internet Destroy the News Media?

Mar 6, 2013, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

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.

Motivating persistence in the face of failure: Technological tools that enhance perseverance and learning

Mar 5, 2013, 12:40 pm to 2:00 pm

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.