From jlorince at indiana.edu Thu May 1 00:32:59 2014 From: jlorince at indiana.edu (Jared Lorince) Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 00:32:59 -0400 Subject: [Sighfis-l] =?utf-8?q?WebSci_=2714_=E2=80=8B_data_challenge?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=8B_deadline_extensions_+_accepted_papers/posters?= Message-ID: *** APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS, PLEASE DISSEMINATE WIDELY *** The WebSci Data Visualization Challenge deadline has been EXTENDED until ? May 12? . $1000 in prizes! For details, see: http://websci14.org/#call-for-data-visualization-challenge . The list of accepted papers and posters, and the full conference schedule are now online: http://websci14.org/#accepted-papers http://websci14.org/#accepted-posters http://websci14.org/#schedule ACM Web Science 2014 will be held 23-26 June 2014 at Indiana University, Bloomington. Further information available at http://www.websci14.org/. For any other questions, please contact webscience-14-organizers at googlegroups.com. ?For any further update, p lease follow us on Twitter (@WebSciConf) or like us on Facebook ?:? https://www.facebook.com/pages/Web-Science-Trust/169268288947 -- Jared Lorince PhD student, ABC West Lab Cognitive Science // Psychological & Brain Sciences Indiana University, Bloomington https://mypage.iu.edu/~jlorince Co-Founder, motivateplay.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rhill at asis.org Fri May 2 11:31:31 2014 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 11:31:31 -0400 Subject: [Sighfis-l] Allen Kent, anohter long time IS&T leader passes away. Message-ID: <13D463CE880C42BCA1F39EF69A882590@asist.local> We received this morning that Dr. Allen Kent, Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, passed away at 92 years. Dick Hill Age 92, on Thursday, May 1, 2014, helped change the world through his pioneering work in computer technology. Born in Harlem, New York, in 1921, Kent was the son a a tailor. He attended City College of New York. Studying chemistry and served in the U.S. Air Force during World War II. Following the war, he became an editor of technical manuscripts, which led to a legendary career in information science. Enlisted to participate in a classified project at MIT, he helped develop a system for mechanically encoding key words to help find specific bits of information within large documents, the precursor of today's internet search engines. At Western Reserve University, he helped establish the first academic program in the field of mechanized information retrieval, first using cards, then utilizing new reel-to-reel tape technology. Kent's 1959 article for Harper's Magazine, "A Machine That Does Research," was among the first pieces in the national popular press explaining to Americans how their lives would soon be changed by electronic information technology. In 1963, he founded and became Director of the Knowledge Availability Systems Center at the University of Pittsburgh. He was also Chairman of the Interdisciplinary Department of Information Science and Head of Communications Programs. Early in his Pitt tenure, he served as an advisor to the Kennedy White House regarding the creation of a National Information Storage and Retrieval Network. A prolific writer and editor, Kent wrote the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, the Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology, and the Encyclopedia of Microcomputers. __________ NEW ADDRESS AS OF Feb. 16, 2014 Richard Hill ASIS&T Executive Director 8555 16th Street, Suite 850 Silver Spring, MD 20910-3560 FAX: (301) 495-0810 Voice: (301) 495-0900 rhill at asis.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: