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.