[Asis-l] UW iSchool Talks: Mon 11/29/04, Bates, UCLA, Fundamental Forms Of Information. Lazerow Lecture Series.

[Efthimis Efthimiadis]

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
Seattle, Washington 98195
  
The Information School
Box 352840; Tel.:(206) 221-6449
www.ischool.washington.edu
 
The Information School of the University of Washington invites you to
its annual Thomson ISI Samuel Lazerow Memorial Lecture.

Speaker:  Marcia Bates, UCLA

Title: FUNDAMENTAL FORMS OF INFORMATION: AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE 

Date: Monday, November 29, 2004
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Place: Mary Gates Hall Room 420
Refreshements to follow.

   Map available from:
http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/northcentral.html?105,86,750,586
 
http://www.ischool.washington.edu/maps.aspx
 

Host:  Efthimis N. Efthimiadis, iSchool Faculty, and the Student Chapter
of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST)


Abstract:

People have been debating what information is for about as long as our
field has existed.  Since the concept of information seems to apply to
so many things, the challenge is to develop an understanding of
information that applies both to fundamental physical and biological
senses of the term, as well as the many socially meaningful senses in
which we use the term in information science. 
This talk constitutes this senior scholar's effort at producing such an
understanding.  After the basic  definition of information is presented,
several fundamental forms of information are then developed and
described.  These include experienced, enacted, expressed, embedded,
recorded, and trace information, among others.

BIO:

Marcia J. Bates is Professor Emerita in the Dept. of Information 
Studies at UCLA.   She has taught, researched, and published in the 
areas of search strategy, user-centered design of information systems,
information seeking behavior, and subject access for over 30 years.  She
has her doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley.  At
UCLA, she is now a Professor VI, a special rank requiring additional
review beyond that of Professor.  She has won the American Society for
Information Science and Technology "Best Paper of the Year" award twice,
and is a Fellow of the American Society for the Advancement of Science.



Information on the Thomson ISI Samuel Lazerow Lecture Series:
The distinguished Samuel Lazerow Lecture, an annual event, is sponsored
by Thomson  ISI's Corporate Awards Program (http://www.isinet.com/). The
Lecture Series was established by ISI in 1983, to honor the memory of
Samuel Lazerow, who was an outstanding librarian, administrator, and
pioneer in library automation.

For more information, call the Information School at (206) 221-6449 or
info at ischool.washington.edu.


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Efthimis N. Efthimiadis <efthimis at u.washington.edu>
Associate Professor    
The Information School, University of Washington       
Suite 370 Mary Gates Hall, Box 352840     
Seattle, WA 98195-2840, USA     
tel.(off.) 206-616-6077, (sch) 206-685-9937, fax. 206-616-3152
http://faculty.washington.edu/efthimis
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