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ASIS 1998 Mid Year Meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Hill)
Mon Mar 23 21:45:22 1998
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 18:39:49 -0600
From: Richard Hill <rhill@asis.org>
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Collaboration across Boundaries: Theories, Strategies, and Technology
May 16-20, 1998, Orlando, FL
[This is a summary version of the Mid Year program prepared for listserve
distribution. The schedule of sessions will be posted soon and regularly
updated on the ASIS Web site, http://www.asis.org/Conferences/MY98/index.html
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Great News! If this is your First ASIS Conference or if you've never taken
an ASIS Continuing Education course, you can SAVE BIG! Just register for
the full conference AND any full day CE course and take $50 off your total
registration fee. This offer is not available at the student or retired
registration rate.
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Featured Speakers
Michael Schrage
A Merrill Lynch Forum Innovation Fellow, Michael Schrage writes and
consults widely on the design and deployment of digital innovations. He is
executive director of Merrill Lynch's Innovation Grant Competition and
executive producer of IDG's Spotlight conference on interactive media. He
explores technology design issues as a research associate with MIT's Media
Lab. He is author of the critically acclaimed Shared Minds: The New
Technologies of Collaboration [Random House 1990] - the first book to
explore both the tools and dynamics of successful collaboration in
business, science and the arts. The Japanese edition was published as Mind
Networks [President 1992].
Jeffrey D. Smith
Jeff Smith is a researcher at Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
(NTT), currently at the NTT Multimedia Communications Laboratories in Palo
Alto, CA USA. His research interests include CSCW, organizational theory,
organizational design, and classical rhetoric. One current project is
EColabor, a collaborative requirements analysis system. Part of his work
with EColabor is designing a distributed media server and control protocols.
Technical Session Titles:
- Demonstration - Ecolabor
- Collaboration for Community Outreach: Bridging the Gap (SIG LAN, TIS, and
MED)
- Corporate and University Collaborative Partnerships: Report from the Field
- Collaboration and Conflict in Using Technologies to Develop Human Service
Organizations
- Managing Groupware: Hosting and Appropriation
- Issues in the Administration of Distance Learning (SIG ED)
- Motivating Collaboration Within Organizational Settings (Contributed
Paper Session)
- Teaching Collaborative Skills
- Leveraging Knowledge Through Collaboration: Knowledge Management in
Theory and Practice (SIG MGT)
- Student-Faculty Interactions across Distances (SIG ED)
- Collaboration Across Organizational Boundaries (Contributed Paper Session)
- Information Seeking/Retrieval (Contributed Paper Session)
- Collaborative Authoring and Document Management (SIG PUB)
- Student Collaboration across Distances
- Collaborating with IT Groups to Promote Technology Training (SIG LAN)
- Collaborative Knowledge Development: Methods, Models, and Tools
Report/Demonstration of Work in Progress
- If We Build it They Will Come: Collaboration in Advancing Information
Arcade-inspired Teaching and Learning Spaces.
- An Interactive and Collaborative Approach to Answering Questions for an
Organization
- Librarian-Faculty Partnerships & Collaborative Learning in Intercultural
Communications
- Case Studies in Academic Collaboration (SIG CRS, LAN, TIS)
- Intra-Organizational Teams (Contributed Paper Session)
- Educational Collaboration across International Boundaries (Contributed
Papers Session)
- Protection of Intellectual Property -- Collaboration or Conflict:
Hearings for an ASIS White Paper (SIG IFP, PUB)
- DEMO Customized Products: Users and Developers as Collaborators.
- Interdisciplinary Teaching Innovations in Quantitative Studies (SIG TIS, ED)
- Technologies Supporting Collaboration in an Educational Setting (SIG ED)
CONTINUING EDUCATION (ALL COURSE 9-5 UNLESS SPECIFIED)
Saturday, May 16
- Finding the Right Stuff: Using and Evaluating Internet Search Engines
(Half Day). Candy Schwartz, associate professor, Simmons College Graduate
School of Library & Information Science.
- Law and the Internet. Mickie A. Voges, Director, Legal Information
Center/associate professor of law, Chicago-Kent College of Law.
- Harnessing New Technologies for Collaboration (Half Day). Micah Beck,
assistant professor of computer science, University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, faculty associate to the Java SunSITE, and Terry Moore, Network
Services Coordinator at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Sunday, May 17
- Digital Libraries: Computer Concepts & Technologies for Managing Library
Collections. William Saffady is a professor at the Palmer School, Long
Island University.
- Copyright and Intellectual Property in an Electronic World. Mickie A.
Voges, director, Legal Information Center and associate professor of law,
Chicago-Kent College of Law.
- Introduction to Image Databases. Howard Besser is a frequently published
author and speaker on this subject.
- Building the Virtual "Intranet" Knowledge Center. Howard McQueen is
president of McQueen Consulting, Inc.
- Mingling...With Intent!. Sunday, 4:00pm (Leadership Development
Program, SIG/Chapter Officer Workshop) N. Bernard "Buzzy" Basch, Basch
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