Liveblogging today’s School of Informatics colloquium by Phoebe Sengers (Cornell), “Representation and Response.”
IU sends Five to CHI … Again.
For the second consecutive year, it appears the IU School of Informatics will send five team to Florence, Italy to compete in the next round of the CHI Student Design Competition. Now in the fifth year of the event, IU has won the competition twice, placed in the top four six times, and sent a total of 19 teams to this major conference for human-computer interaction.
Sto andando al CHI
I committed this week to attending CHI by grabbing a small single room in Florence for the early April conference. Since it is freakin’ Italy, I’m going to try to pad the trip a bit on either end and get some site-seeing in. During the conference proper, though, there are few other things that piqued my interest.
Ben Shneiderman: Creativity support tools
This is live blogging coverage of Ben Shneiderman’s colloquium today, entitled: “Creativity support tools: Accelerating discovery and innovation.”
Questioning what you think you know
Last Friday, Eugene Spafford became the first of four speakers in a new Distinguished Colloquia series offered by the School of Informatics. Spaffords talk, “The Value in Questioning What You Think You Know,” was a reflective look at current hardware and software practices, many of which are based on the computing landscape in the 1950s.
The Killer Slide
Today ended a two-day blitz of work that took the form of an Accenture case competition. The event was sponsored by the Kelley School of Business as an extension of one of their business classes, taught by Paul Friga. This year, the competition was opened up a bit, and SOI Director of Undergraduate Studies Dennis Groth recruited five Informatics teams to participate. None of them made the cut to the final six of the thirty entries. That wasn’t really a surprise, once the nature of the competition was revealed Wednesday.