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Please join the Information School community in celebrating our graduates for 2009!
Reception on Red Square at 6pm. Dessert and espresso drinks will be provided, music by the Mosaic Brass Quintet. Convocation Ceremony at 8:00pm in the Meany Theatre. *Tickets...
Host:University of Washington Information School
Time:6:00PM Thursday, June 11th
Location:Red Square and Meany Theatre
University of Washington Information School
Shuhua (Monica) Liu's Dissertation Defense
What shapes employees’ decisions to share knowledge in real work practices: An exploration of knowledge sharing processes and factors shaping workers’ knowledge sharing when p...
Host:University of Washington Information School
Time:1:00PM Tuesday, June 2nd
Location:Mary Gates Hall 420
University of Washington Information School
A Research Conversation with Jentery Sayers and Matthew Wilson
Revisiting and building upon a previous iSchool Research Conversation, which occurred on November 21^st , 2008, Jentery Sayers (PhD Candidate, UW English) and Matthew Wilson (...
Host:University of Washington Information School
Time:2:30PM Friday, May 29th
Location:Mary Gates Hall 420
University of Washington Information School
Deborah Turner's Dissertation Defense
This dissertation proposes and explicates the concept of an oral document as a way to ground an exploratory discussion on orality and information behavior. This study isolates...
Host:University of Washington Information School
Time:10:00AM Tuesday, May 26th
Location:Mary Gates Hall 420
University of Washington Information School
A Research Conversation with Elizabeth Buchanan
Dr. Buchanan will be presenting the results of her recent NSF-funded work on internet research ethics. As an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, she ...
Host:University of Washington Information School
Time:2:30PM Friday, May 22nd
Location:Mary Gates Hall 420
University of Washington Information School
The Findings of the InterPARES project and the premises of the DRF project, speaker Luciana Duranti
Under the aegis of two of her research projects, InterPARES and the Digital Records Forensics (DRF) project, Prof Duranti will demonstrate how information technologies have ma...
Host:University of Washington Information School
Time:3:30PM Monday, May 18th
Location:Mary Gates Hall 420
University of Washington Information School
A Reseach Conversation with Joe McCarthy
The Community Collage (CoCollage) is designed to cultivate community in a café, a quintessential “third place”, by bringing the richness of online social software into a physi...
Host:University of Washington Information School
Time:2:30PM Friday, May 15th
Location:Mary Gates Hall 420
University of Washington Information School
Please join iSchool faculty, staff, and students in celebrating the 2009 Student Capstone Projects!
The Capstone event showcases the breadth of skills and expertise students develop in the Bachelor of Science in Informatics and Master of Science in Information Management pro...
Host:University of Washington Information School
Time:6:00PM Thursday, June 4th
Location:Husky Union Building
University of Washington Information School
Sponsored by the UW iSchool, the Dept. of Psychology, the Comparative Religion Program, and the Ernest Becker Fdtn.
Our latest information and communication technologies can be powerful tools, helping us to connect to valuable sources of knowledge, to one another, and to the world. But they...
Host:University of Washington Information School
Time:9:30AM Sunday, May 10th
Location:University of Washington, Seattle
University of Washington Information School
Online Northwest is a one-day conference focusing on topics that intersect between libraries, technology and culture. The conference is sponsored by the Oregon University Syst...
Host:University of Washington Information School
Time:8:00AM Friday, February 13th
Location: CH2M Hill Alumni Center
University of Washington Information School
Research Conversation
The market for security software has witnessed an unprecedented growth in recent years. A closer examination of this market reveals certain idiosyncrasies that are not observ...
Host:University of Washington Information School
Time:2:30PM Friday, February 13th
Location:Mary Gates Hall 254
University of Washington Information School
Using Ionic Polymer Metal Composites (IPMCs)
Abstract: Ionic Polymer Metal Composites (IPMCs), as a newly-emerged electroactive polymer, have been widely investigated as bending actuators and sensors due to their good pe...
Host:University of Washington Information School
Time:4:00PM Wednesday, February 11th
Location:Intel Research Seattle
University of Washington Information School
Students' chance to hang out with Dean
Dean Bruce is hosting a meeting with students to listen to their experiences in the iSchool and at the UW. These meetings are opportunities for students to meet in a small gro...
Host:University of Washington Information School
Time:8:30AM Friday, February 27th
Location:Mary Gates Hall, room 310-D
University of Washington Information School
An iYouth panel discussion
Are you cross-culturally competent? Providing excellent customer service requires excellent cross-cultural communication skills. Come hear what our panel of leaders in the ...
Host:University of Washington Information School
Time:6:30PM Thursday, February 26th
Location:Mary Gates Hall, room 420
University of Washington Information School
Conversations with UW's Research Leaders
Recently, UW Technology and the eScience Institute collaborated on a project to learn how UW researchers use information technologies to support their work and to anticipate f...
Host:University of Washington Information School
Time:1:00PM Friday, February 20th
Location:Odegaard Library, Room 220
University of Washington Information School
Thesis Presentation
The thesis committee members: David W. McDonald (chair), Karen Fisher and David Hendry. My thesis investigates how people manage their personal audio and video collections. ...
Host:University of Washington Information School
Time:3:00PM Friday, February 20th
Location:Mary Gates Hall 420
University of Washington Information School
Center for Information and Society (CIS) Speaker Series
Speaker: Richard Anderson – Computer Science Department ABSTRACT: Digital StudyHall is an education project in Lucknow, India that aims to link together strong urban schools...
Host:University of Washington Information School
Time:3:00PM Wednesday, February 18th
Location:Mary Gates Hall (MGH) 420
University of Washington Information School
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Readergirlz divas Dia Calhoun and Lorie Ann Grover will present ideas on how librarians can plug into innovative programming to make reading fun and meaningful for teens. Thei...
Host:University of Washington Information School
Time:6:00PM Tuesday, February 10th
Location:Electrical Engineering Building, Room 031
University of Washington Information School
Biomedical and Health Informatics Lecture Series
Rodney A. Schmidt, MD, PhD, Professor of Pathology, Director of Medical Informatics, University of Washington, will present.
Host:University of Washington Information School
Time:12:00PM Tuesday, February 3rd
Location:Health Sciences, Room T-531
University of Washington Information School
Themes from an exploratory field study of the “Mood Phone”
Abstract: Psychotherapies, particularly those focused on cognitive reappraisal and mindfulness, foster self-awareness and emotional regulation. The ability to modulate reactio...
Host:University of Washington Information School
Time:3:00PM Monday, February 2nd
Location:Intel Research Seattle
University of Washington Information School
Recent events in Congo, Darfur and Somalia underscore the persistence of genocide as a political, legal and ethical problem, and ultimately as a humanitarian problem. In 1994,...
Host:University of Washington Information School
Time:7:00PM Tuesday, January 27th
Location:University of Washington Kane Hall 120
University of Washington Information School
...from the Institute for Innovation in Information Management
According to most estimates, information systems projects succeed slightly more than 20 percent of the time. The Fall 2008 Institute for Innovation in Information Management (...
Host:University of Washington Information School
Time:8:00AM Thursday, November 20th
Location:Waterfront Activities Center, University of Washington
University of Washington Information School
InfoCamp is an interdisciplinary un-conference for information architecture, user-centered design, librarianship, information management, and related topics. It features an eg...
Host:University of Washington Information School
Time:9:00AM Saturday, September 27th
Location:Youngstown Cultural Arts Center
University of Washington Information School
At this year's Spencer G. Shaw Lecture, renowned children's author, illustrator and filmmaker Gerald McDermott will give a talk titled "Heroes & Tricksters: A Mythic Journey."...
Host:University of Washington Information School
Time:7:00PM Wednesday, November 19th
Location:Kane Hall 220, UW Seattle Campus
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