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Archive for March, 2007

Jenna Burrell Faculty Candidate Talk

Jenna Burrell from the London School of Economics gave a Faculty Candidate Talk this past Monday here at the ISchool entitled, “Cultures of ICT4D: how Internet café users in Accra, Ghana define the link between technology and development”.
Here is the audio (note that, due to technical difficulties, we lost 5-10 minutes of the talk about [...]

Tapan Parikh Faculty Candidate Talk

Download Tapan Parikh’s talk, “Designing Appropriate Computing Technologies for the Rural Developing World” here
Abstract: Recent history has seen an increase in disparity between the rich and poor regions of the world. Disproportionate access to information is both a symptom and a factor contributing to this disparity. In particular, people living in the rural [...]

Hong Qu, YouTube (UI guest lecture)

Lecture on YouTube’s UI design practices by SIMS alumnus.
March 13, 2007 in i213: User Interface Design and Development
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Barney Pell & Natural Language Search

On Wednesday, March 7, 2007, Barney Pell (founder and CEO of Powerset) gave a special lecture at iSchool. Audio is available here. Abstract:
Abstract
Search has become a critical part of our daily lives and the primary gateway to information and services of all kinds. Much of the success has been driven by the growth of the [...]

Stuart Schechter Faculty Candidate Talk

Stuart Schechter from MIT Lincoln Lab gave a Faculty Candidate Talk this past Monday here at the ISchool entitled, “A quantitative and interdisciplinary approach to improving information security”.
Here is the audio (note that the audio begins about 15 minutes into the talk). Here is the abstract for the talk:
I present two studies that use [...]