Upcoming Events
Digital Library Brown Bag Series
Sept. 7, Noon-1 p.m.
Herman B Wells Library, room 043
Jon Dunn, director, and Dot Porter, associate director for Content & Services, will present "A Digital Library Program Show and Tell: Most recent and upcoming!" to give a brief overview of several new and upcoming projects and services, including the Photos Service, exciting new projects and functionality in Archives Online at IU, and the DLP's first cross-collection search. For more information visit: http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/education/brownbags/
Computational Thinking
Sept. 9, 3-4 p.m.
Lindley Hall, room 102, 150 S. Woodlawn Ave., Bloomington
Jeannette M. Wing is the President's Professor of Computer Science and head of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Wing will discuss her vision for the 21st Century. Computational thinking will be a fundamental skill used by everyone in the world.The event is free and open to the public. For more information: 812-856-5418 or dunn@indiana.edu
Towards Web-Scale Semantic Crowd Discovery
Sept. 16, 3-4 p.m.
Informatics East, room 130, 919 E. 10th St., Bloomington
Professor James Caverlee, currently a tenure-track faculty member in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, will discuss as part of this talk: (i) Identifying and tracking the evolution of semantic crowds; and (ii) Social media location estimation. The event is free and open to the public. For more information: 812-855-5388 or dingying@indiana.edu
International Symposium on Biocomputing
Sept. 12-13
National Institute of Technology Calicut, Calicut, India
The School of Informatics at IUPUI and NITC will offer their second annual International Symposium on Biocomputing (ISB), a two-day workshop to further increase international research collaborations among biotechnology and bioinformatics scholars, engineers and scientists. Sponsors are Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) and the Indian government's Department of Biology (DBT), as well as a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant awarded to the School of Informatics at IUPUI and its associate dean of graduate studies and research, Mathew Palakal. For more information: http://www.isb2011.in/
