School of Information Sciences

SIS Colloquium Series

Thursday, February 8, 2007

Bruce Schatz, Director of the CANIS (Community Architectures for Network Information Systems) Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Biomedical Science in the Net of the 21st Century:  A Tale of Two Systems for Global Infrastructure"
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm, in Room 501 IS Building
The video of Bruce Schatz ¹s lecture is available at : http://dvs.sis.pitt.edu/view.pl?id=1170983544

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Bob Firth, Informing Design. Bob Firth is a expert on the design of wayfinding aids and will be discussing his creative ideas on how to redesign the transit system in Pittsburgh to improve service, while cutting costs.
"The Long Squiggly Line That's Killing Our Transit System and an Information Science Solution"
3:30 pm, in Room 501 IS Building

Monday, April 23, 2007

Jill Freyne, Postdoctoral Researcher, University College Dublin, Ireland
"Collaborative Web Search - Exploiting User Activity for User Benefit"
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm, in Room 501 IS Building

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Dr. Glenn Blank, Lehigh University, PA
"A Tutoring System for Novices Learning Object-Oriented Design"
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm, in Room 501 IS Building

 

Colloquia

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