2014 MEETINGS
Austin, TX
Thursday, April 10 – University of Texas, School of Information (iSchool)
iSchool focuses on Information Architecture, Design and Usability (IADU)
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- Meet at the University of Texas School of Information (iSchool) (8:00 -8:30 am)
- Private consortium session – Introductions and Round Robin (8:30-10:15 am)
- Welcome: Randolph Bias, Professor/Director of Information eXperience (IX Lab)
- Intro to iSchool:
- Joys of hiring iSchool students
- Cost-justifying usability
- Tour of IX LabSchool of Information (10:30-11:45am )
- Lunch (11:45am-1:00pm )
- School of Information (1:00-3:00pm )
- Research presentation: “The Lure of the Virtual”, Professor Diane Bailey
- Roundtable Discussion: “How might exposing the work of others affect us – our level of awareness, our motivation to collaborate, our feeling of information overload (and more)”, Professor James Hawison
- Travel to U of Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) (3:00-3:30pm )
- TACC Visualization Lab (VisLab) (See details below) (3:30-5:30pm )
- Dinner (6:30-8:00pm )
TACC Visualization Lab
Heriberto “Eddy” Nieto will walk us through various projects done on about 5 large screen and tiled display systems. These systems are driven by different technologies and have advanced user interface capabilities such as single person, multiple person, multi-touch, head tracking and gesture recognition. They include a portable stereoscopic display and the Oculus RIFT virtual reality system. Oculus RIFT is the company recently bought by Facebook for $2.3 billion.
Friday, April 11 – Cycorp
Cycorp focuses on cutting-edge artificial intelligence, machine reasoning, knowledge modeling and natural language processing research initiatives.
- Welcome: Doug Lenat, CEO (8:00-10:00am)
- An overview of work at Cycorp
- Break (10:00-10:15am )
- Innovation in China; Strategy for hiring & employing people (Jim Hotary) (10:15-10:45am )
- Round Robin continuation (10:45am-12:00pm )
- Wrap up (12:00-12:30pm )
- Review of meeting pros and cons
- Selection of next meeting location (Detroit/Ann Arbor?) and date
- Topic(s) of interest for future meetings