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Monday, September 21, 2009 at 8:30 AM - Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at 6:00 PM (ET)
This is a two-day conference on "transparent text"-- that is, ways to make large collections of documents understandable to a wide audience. The event will feature a number of invited talks by people who have done pioneering work around making text accessible. We think that making sense of large bodies of text is key to the future of transparency, and see this conference as an opportunity to jumpstart discussion around this topic.
More information is available here.
Keynote Speaker:
Beth Noveck
United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Open Government, The White House
Confirmed Speakers:
Emily Calhoun
Research Director, MAPLight
David Ferrucci
Senior Manager, Semantic Analysis & Integration, IBM Research
Ben Fry
Director, Seed Visualization
Dan Gruhl
Research Scientist, Semantic Super Computing, IBM Research
Marti Hearst
Professor, School of Information, University of California Berkeley
Gary King
Professor of Government and Director of Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University
Amanda Michel
Director of Distributed Reporting, ProPublica
Ellen Miller
Co-founder and Executive Director, Sunlight Foundation
Jon Orwant
Engineering Manager, Google (Google Books, Google Magazines, Google Patents)
Aron Pilhofer
Editor, Interactive News Technologies, The New York Times
Co-founder, DocumentCloud.org
Kevin Quinn
Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
Fightin' Words
Simon Rogers
News editor, graphics, The Guardian
Editor, Guardian Datablog and Datastore
David Small
Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab
Thomas Tague
OpenCalais Initiative Lead, OpenCalais
Fernanda Viegas
Research Scientist, Visual Communication Lab, IBM Research
Martin Wattenberg
Research Scientist, Visual Communication Lab, IBM Research
Ethan Zuckerman
Senior Researcher, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University
Monday, September 21, 2009 at 8:30 AM
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at 6:00 PM (ET)
Add to my calendarLaunched September 2008, the IBM Center for Social Software is a first-of-its kind center of excellence for collaborative and social software. The Center works closely with corporate residents, university students and faculty, creating the industry's premier incubator for the research, development and testing of social software that is "fit for business."
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