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