From ischoolumd at gmail.com Tue Apr 5 09:48:24 2016 From: ischoolumd at gmail.com (Ischool UMD) Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 09:48:24 -0400 Subject: [Sigifp-l] =?utf-8?q?Intro_to_Web_Programming=E2=80=94An_Online_S?= =?utf-8?q?hort_Course_Offered_by_UMD=E2=80=99s_iSchool?= Message-ID: Have you ever wanted to make a better website? Register now for *Introduction to Web Programming*?a fully online, 6-week short course! Offered through the Professional Education program at the University of Maryland?s iSchool, this short course is an introduction to the fundamentals of designing and programming websites. This course will teach you the basics of writing code for webpages, including how to use formatting tools HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). This course also introduces you to the fundamentals of building well-designed and usable websites. Students need no prior programming experience. At the completion of the short course, participants will receive a Certificate of Completion from the University of Maryland?s Office of Extended Studies and earn eighteen (18) contact hours of continuing education units (CEUs). This course is not for graduate credit. *About the instructor* Dr. Jen Golbeck is a world leader in social media research and science communication. She began studying social media from the moment it emerged on the web a decade ago, and is one of the world?s foremost experts in the field. Her research has influenced industry, government, and the military. She is a pioneer in the field of social data analytics, discovering people?s hidden attributes from their online behavior, and a leader in creating human-friendly security and privacy systems. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland. *Short Course Details* - Dates: May 2nd ? June 11th - Delivery: A fully online, asynchronous course that will utilize the University's Canvas learning management system. - Price and Refunds - $379 (payable by debit or credit only) - Refunds will only be given under extreme circumstances at the discretion of the Professional Education Committee *Registration Details* To register for this short course, visit *http://go.umd.edu/spring16-webprogramming * Registration will close April 29, 2016, and participation will be capped at 50 students. For more information, visit http://ischool.umd.edu/professional-education. If you have any questions, please contact Tricia Donovan (donovant at umd.edu), Coordinator of Professional Education at Maryland?s iSchool. *The Professional Education program at Maryland?s iSchool is committed to providing quality professional and continuing education opportunities to library and information professionals. These opportunities include short courses, webcasts, workshops, and other experiences, both in-person and virtually. For more information, visit http://ischool.umd.edu/professional-education .* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ku26 at drexel.edu Thu Apr 7 14:03:34 2016 From: ku26 at drexel.edu (Unsworth,Kristene) Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 18:03:34 +0000 Subject: [Sigifp-l] Fwd: CFP: Post-Snowden Internet Policy - Media and Communication In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <388b5c1f-4f28-4b8f-9753-8bbc47564041@typeapp.com> Might be interesting to many of you! Sent from BlueMail On Apr 7, 2016, at 13:06, Mike Zajko > wrote: http://cogitatiopress.com/ojs/index.php/mediaandcommunication/pages/view/nextissues#internetpolicy Editors: Julia Pohle (WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany) and Leo Van Audenhove (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, and University of the Western Cape, South Africa) Deadline for Abstracts: 31 May 2016 Deadline for Submissions: 31 August 2016 Publication of the Issue: December 2016 Information: In summer 2013, the world was shaken by the revelations of Edward Snowden, a former NSA systems administrator who leaked classified records of the surveillance programmes of the US intelligence agencies. In several countries, these disclosures led to a chorus of outrage by internet users and policy-makers. In addition, despite the fact that many international corporations dissociated themselves from US surveillance practices, the disclosed documents revealed how the nexus between the US government and the IT industry entails the neglect of privacy concerns on a large scale. Hence, the NSA scandal has demonstrated that existing Internet policy frameworks are not adequate to address illegitimate data collection and surveillance through global digital infrastructures. It thereby accelerated a necessary debate about the future of Internet policy in an increasingly globalised word that is interconnected by digital infrastructures. But as much consternation as Snowden?s revelations have caused, the discursive response to the scandal appears disconnected from the practical response. While users continue to entrust their data and personal information to US-based corporations, policy-makers in Europe and other regions have yet to put forward alternative approaches that would reform existing domestic and international Internet policy and ensure the respect of legal obligations and human rights. This thematic issue seeks contributions that approach the consequences that the Snowden disclosures have had, might have or should have on the discursive and practical level. We particularly invite submissions that reveal the complex mechanisms of Internet policy and its many interrelated (and often competing) discourses, issues and actors. Approaching the topic of post-Snowden Internet policy from a theoretical, conceptual or case-study perspective, contributions could address the following topics: - Privacy by policy or by design - Data protection in a globalised network society - Digital literacy and the power of users/consumers - Surveillance ? between care and control - Digital sovereignty and data localisation - Accountability of international corporations - Policy-making in a black box society - Civil disobedience, (h)activists and their impact on policy debates **************************************************** This is a message from the SURVEILLANCE listserv for research and teaching in surveillance studies. To unsubscribe, please send the following message to : UNSUBSCRIBE SURVEILLANCE For further help, please visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/help **************************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From youakim.badr at insa-lyon.fr Mon Apr 25 07:19:21 2016 From: youakim.badr at insa-lyon.fr (Youakim Badr) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 13:19:21 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Sigifp-l] CFP: ACM MEDES 2016 (Biarritz, France) Message-ID: <981716848.14746418.1461583161201.JavaMail.zimbra@insa-lyon.fr> * Please distribute widely and accept our apologies for cross-posting * *************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************** The 8th International Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES'16) In-Cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6 http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/16/ November 1-4, 2016 Biarritz, France Description and Objectives --------------------------- In the world of the Internet of Things (IoT), the rapid growth and exponential use of digital components leads to the emergence of intelligent environments namely "digital ecosystems" connected to the web and composed of multiple and independent entities such as individuals, organizations, services, software and applications sharing one or several missions and focusing on the interactions and inter-relationships among them. With the help of the computational intelligence, these digital ecosystems can exhibit new self-* properties (such as self-management, self-healing and self-configuration) environments, thanks to the re-combination and evolution of its "digital components", in which resources provided by each entity are properly conserved, managed and used. The underlying web-based resources mainly comprehend big data management, innovative services, smart and self-* properties platforms. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of digital ecosystems, they are highly complex to study and design. This also leads to a poor understanding as to how managing resources will empower digital ecosystems to be innovative, intelligent and value-creating. The application of Information Technologies has the potential to enable the understanding of how entities request resources and ultimately interact to create benefits and added-values, impacting business practices and knowledge. These technologies can be improved through novel techniques, models and methodologies for fields such as big data management, web technologies, networking, security, human-computer interactions, artificial intelligence, e-services and self-organizing systems to support the establishment of digital ecosystems and manage their resources. The International Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES),previously named "The International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems", aims to develop and bring together a diverse community from academia, research laboratories and industry interested in exploring the manifold challenges and issues related to resource management of Digital Ecosystems and how current approaches and technologies can be evolved and adapted to this end. MEDES 2016 calls for full papers presenting interesting recent results or novel ideas in all areas of Emergent Digital EcoSystems. At the same time, the conference calls for short papers presenting interesting and exciting recent results or novel thought-provoking ideas that are not quite ready, and preferably include a system demonstration. Topics ------- MEDES 2015 seeks contributions in the following 10 areas: 1. Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure 2. Green computing 3. Computational and Collective Intelligence 4. Services 5. Trust, Security & Privacy 6. Data & Knowledge Management 7. Internet of Things and Intelligent Web 8. Human-Computer Interaction 9. Networks and Protocols 10. Open Source Paper Submission ---------------- Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website. The submitted paper should be at most 8 ACM single-space printed pages. Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers. After the preliminary notification date, authors rebut by evidence and arguments all reviewer inquiries and their comments. Based on the rebuttal feedback, reviewers notify authors with the final decision. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics related to Digital Ecosystems. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM Digital Library and DBLP. Important Dates ---------------- - Submission Deadline: May 20th, 2016 - Notification of Acceptance: July 25th, 2016 - Camera Ready: August 25th, 2016 - Paper Registration: August 25th, 2016 - Conference Dates: 1-4 November 2016 Advisory Chairs ---------------- Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Ernesto Damiani, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Program Chairs ---------------- Ismail Biskri, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Trois-Rivi?res, Canada Rajeev Agrawal, North Carolina A&T State University, USA International Program Committee: -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list) From ischoolumd at gmail.com Tue Apr 26 14:11:02 2016 From: ischoolumd at gmail.com (Ischool UMD) Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 14:11:02 -0400 Subject: [Sigifp-l] Don't Miss Out! Registration Closes Thursday for Short Courses at Maryland's iSchool in Web Programming and Javascript Message-ID: Good afternoon, This is a reminder that registration for the UMD iSchool courses, *Introduction to Web Programming* and *Introduction to Javascript*, closes *this Thursday!* Don't miss out on these opportunities to advance your career and gain valuable programming knowledge! Please find press releases and brochures attached for more information. Regards, UMD iSchool Professional Education -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: IntroJavascriptFlyer_Final.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 280072 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: Intro to Web Programming.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 80240 bytes Desc: not available URL: From rhill at asis.org Fri Apr 29 10:35:13 2016 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 10:35:13 -0400 Subject: [Sigifp-l] DEADLINES - New Leader Award & Annual Meeting Panels & Workshops Message-ID: <387-22016452914351317@LEN-dick-2011> DEADLINES COMING AWARD: New Leaders Award, May 15 (Incorrect deadline announced earlier) https://www.asist.org/about/awards/new-leaders-award/ ANNUAL MEETING: Panels and Workshops: Submission of panels and workshop proposals due: 3 May 2016 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology Copenhagen, Denmark | Oct. 14-18, 2016 https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016/ Richard Hill Executive Director Association for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900