Untitled and Undecided

I am one of the co-organizers of a workshop being held at the ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition in Berkeley at the end of October: Understanding the Creative Conversation – From Modeling to Engagement.

We particularly looking for ways to increase the conversation between technologists, social scientists, and those in the humanities. Creativity is a rather ambiguous concept and it opens up a space for conversation from people in a lot of different disciplines, so don’t let the “cognition” scare you if you prefer other approaches.

Key dates:
- submission of position statements deadline: August 12, 2009
- notification of acceptance: August 19, 2009
- workshop date: October 27, 2009

Please let me know if you have any questions (dperkel (@) ischool (.) berkeley (.) edu). And please forward along to faculty, students, practitioners, or others who might be interested.

Today, Megan Finn and I will be kicking off the first class of a six-week course on the History of Information. We have adapted the syllabus from the class taught annually by Professors Paul Duguid and Geoff Nunberg in order to accommodate teaching a 17 week class in only six weeks. As of right now, we have 49 students enrolled plus more on the waiting list. Let’s hope we don’t scare anyone off today…

Here is the class website