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February 24

UW Informatics major Liz Moffat is featured in a new video from Microsoft. The video features scenes from the UW campus as Moffat relates how she and her classmates are conquering group projects with...

February 23

The Project Information Literacy (PIL) Progress Report, released in early February and co-authored by two iSchool faculty, is on the lips of information professionals, receiving over 2,100 downloads...

February 16

In a Feb. 15 article in the New York Times, reporter Motoko Rich writes about a growing cadre of 21st-century multimedia specialists who help guide students through the often overwhelming amount of...

February 5

Professor Batya Friedman of the Information School gave an interview to New Hampshire Public Radio’s Word of Mouth on February 5th. In the interview, Dr. Friedman talks about her work with a project...

February 1

On January 27, the UW iSchool hosted more than 400 guests for "Voices from the Rwanda Tribunal: Genocide and Justice," an event co-hosted by Seattle University School of Law and co-sponsored by the...

January 27

by Mary Lynn Lyke. Republished from the iSchool's iNews newsletter. Video games may be good for hand-eye coordination, strategizing, skill building and pitting interplanetary forces of good...

UW Information School Assistant Professor Karine Barzilai-Nahon has been named to the editorial board of the journal The Information Society (TIS). Published since 1981, TIS is one of the most...

January 25

For his column today for the Seattle Times, Jerry Large speaks with UW iSchool Assistant Professor Kevin Desouza. Dr. Desouza and the work of one of his classes in the Master of Science in...

December 22

A team of researchers from Project Information Literacy have produced a four-minute video summarizing some interesting findings from their work. Project Information Literacy (web site) is a national...

December 15

So you have a New Year's resolution: get your books and papers organized, plan a vacation your family can afford, or find a new job in a new town. How to keep track of all the details necessary to...

February 11

The SI Informant, a news and events kind of blog for those who like their info fast, is up. Our older style list of separate news items will soon go by the wayside.

January 27

School of Information students have continued a string of impressive showings in the annual international CHI Design Competition by placing five teams among the 12 who will compete in Boston on April 9.

January 22

A current faculty member and a professor emerita of the School of Information have been honored by the Association of Computing Machinery for their contributions in the field of computer-human interaction.

January 19

Alumna Deborah Diesen is a first-time author, but she rates in the top 10 of her field -- and has an impressive list to prove it.

January 8

The Association for Computing Machinery has named Associate Professor Dragomir Radev a distinguished scientist.

December 9

The Michigan Chapter of the Special Libraries Association has awarded master's student Lisa J. Wheeler a $600 scholarship to be used toward books and tuition.

December 1

In conjunction with World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, SI and the U-M Library will launch a searchable, online trove of AIDS-related literature gathered by a prominent science writer.

November 21

School of Information students continue to do well in the annual GROCS competition that encourages a vision for enhancing teaching, learning, and research.

November 18

A traditional "topping out" ceremony on Tuesday, November 18 marked the placement of the last steel beam for the new North Quad living/learning complex that will include the home of the School of Information.

November 11

Philip Ray (MSI '98) makes an effort to ride his bike to work every day. Because he lives only three miles from campus, the information technology manager at the School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE) easily can commute on two wheels.

February 24

Chen Li, associate professor of computer science, has received an award for $221,730 from the NSF CluE program to support his research on large-scale data cleaning using cloud computing. In addition, his team will also use software and services on a Google-IBM cluster to explore innovative research ideas in data-intensive computing.

February 19

Michael Carey, Bren Professor of Information and Computer Sciences, has been awarded a Google Research Award for $70,000 for his research entitled, "A Declarative and Open Source Data Mapping Tool for OpenII." Carey's research is tackling the need for large organizations to effectively access and analyze data coming from disparate sources, including multiple databases, legacy information stores, applications and data stores published via Web services, XML files, and CSV files.

On Friday January 16, 2009, Dan Russell, Research Scientist at Google, delivered a lecture entitled How Google Users Think About Search (and How They Actually Search). This lecture has been made available as a Flash video. Some Google users are incredibly effective at finding stuff with search engines, while others seem to have trouble getting their questions framed, let alone answered. Why are some searchers so good, and what do they do differently than others?

On Friday February 6, 2009, John King, professor in the School of Information and Vice Provost for Academic Information, at the University of Michigan, delivered a lecture entitled Society as Software. This lecture has been made available as a Flash video. This talk is in the grand tradition of turning the inanimate into metaphor for the animate. It's a fool's errand, to be sure, but it can be jolly fun and, with luck, instructive.

February 17

America Holloway, a second year Bren School Ph.D. student has been named a 2009 Microsoft Research Graduate Women's Scholar. The one-year scholarship sponsored by Microsoft Research recognizes ten female graduate students in the first two years of their study for outstanding achievement in computer science, electrical engineering, or mathematics. Holloway currently conducts research on combining statistical models of text with collections of human knowledge called ontologies (e.g. Wikipedia categories) to perform a variety of tasks. Examples of these tasks include unsupervised summarization of large document sets, mapping documents onto an ontology (i.e. finding a document to concept mapping), and automatically refining an ontology in response to novel textual information.

Today

On March 11, 2009, G. Sayeed Choudhury of Johns Hopkins University will address ???The Perfect Storm??? of the Information Age in the Spring 2009 Windsor Lecture.

Yesterday

The symposium, "New Directions in Digital Humanities Scholarship" will be held at GSLIS on February 26 and February 27.

February 24

Professor Alistair Black is a recipient of the 2008 Library History Essay Prize.

February 13

Karen Coats will deliver the Fifth Annual Gryphon Lecture on March 6.

February 3

"Frogs," written and illustrated by Nic Bishop, has won the 2009 Gryphon Award for Children's Literature.

February 2

Assistant Professors Kathryn La Barre and Carol Tilley have been awarded the OCLC/ALISE Library and Information Science Research Grant for their project, "Folktales, Facets, and FRBR."

January 29

OCLC Research and the RLG Partnership commissioned GSLIS's Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship to prepare this recently released report.

January 28

Applications are now being accepted from practicing academic librarians and other information professionals who want to learn more about data curation services in academic libraries. The deadline is March 7, 2009.

January 23

The Center for Children's Books is hosting its annual book sale February 16 through February 18, 2009.

January 16

GSLIS welcomes Professor Alistair Black to the faculty.

February 11

Dan Paterson, a School of Information alum from 2003, is currently Senior Rare ...

The School of Information is pleased to announce that Associate Research Profess...