2014 MEETINGS

Thursday, April 10 – University of Texas, School of Information (iSchool)

iSchool focuses on Information Architecture, Design and Usability (IADU)

• • 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