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Ongoing lecture series. Sponsored by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh; School of Computer Science and University Libraries, Carnegie Mellon; and School of Information Sciences and University Library System, University of Pittsburgh.

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2008

• Adaptive Book: A Textbook Management Platform for Interaction, Collaboration and Analysis

  SPEAKER
  Ananda Gunawardena, Associate Teaching Professor of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University

  WHEN & WHERE
  Thursday, March 27, 2008
  4 pm - 5 pm, Room 501
  135 North Bellefield Avenue
  School of Information Sciences
  University of Pittsburgh

  ABSTRACT Today's e-books are mostly digital versions of their printed counterparts. Although copyright laws, conversion costs and other constraints may play a role in this trend, we argue that a digital textbook must be much more than a PDF version of a printed book if they are to be useful. The Adaptive Book Project at Carnegie Mellon University is an attempt to look at a digital book as a "platform" that can facilitate interaction, collaboration and analysis. Designed using several HCI studies and by employing novel algorithms for reading analysis, Adaptive Book technology seems to provide a rich platform for interactive textbooks. In this talk, Dr. Gunawardena will discuss how Adaptive Book platform facilitates content authoring, aggregation, book management, interaction, collaboration and more importantly reading analysis. He will demonstrate the functionality of this new platform and show how various interactive, collaborative and analysis tools can extend the functionality of a digital book. 

  BIO Ananda Gunawardena is an Associate Teaching Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He received a Bachelor of Science with special honors degree in Mathematics from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka and the M.S. degree in Computer Science and Ph.D. in Applied Linear Algebra from Ohio University. Dr. Gunawardena's research interests include computational Mathematics and applications of Human Computer Interaction and Data mining to create usable, smart and Adaptive Educational Software. He is also interested in mobile computing and has done a considerable amount of work in pen-computing and related to Tablet PCs. He is the co-author of two college level textbooks in Computational Linear Algebra published by Springer-Verlag and Thomson-Brooks Cole and is the author or co-author of over 35 research articles and book chapters. His textbooks have been translated into several foreign languages. He has received grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Hewlett Foundation, HP Inc, and Microsoft Corporation.

  
  
  

• What is Open Access to Research? * 02/11/08 PowerPoint * 02/11/08 video

  
  Peter Suber, Senior Researcher at the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
  
  Dr. Suber will describe open access, the simple idea with complex ramifications that is transforming the dissemination of science and scholarship. He'll discuss some of its history, including its recent successes, and explain why it's compatible with peer review, how we'll pay for it, why it doesn't violate copyright law, and why it will benefit authors at least as much as readers. Co-sponsored by Authors' Rights & Wrongs, Digital Libraries Colloquium, and Carnegie Mellon's University Lectures Series.
  
  Dr. Suber is Senior Researcher at the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), the Open Access Project Director at Public Knowledge, and a Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy and a J.D., both from Northwestern University. He writes the Open Access News weblog and the SPARC Open Access Newsletter, was the principal drafter of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, and sits on the Advisory Board of The European Library, the Advisory Board of the Wikimedia Foundation, the Steering Committee of the Scientific Information Working Group of the U.N. World Summit on the Information Society, and the boards of several other groups devoted to open access, scholarly communication, and the information commons. He has been active in promoting open access for many years through his research, speaking, and writing. For more information, see his home page http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/

2007

• Cyberscholarship: supercomputing meets digital libraries, with the Web as a case study
  --Dr. William Arms, Professor, Cornell University
  abstract + bio | VIDEO
  
  
• Intellectual Property. Rights in the Digital Age: Reflections on Why Copyright Law Must Change
  Presented as part of the 3rd International Conference on Universal Digital Library
  --Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director, Library of Alexandria
  bio | VIDEO
  
  
• The Future of Scholarly Communications: A Perspective on Issues and Priorities from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
  --Donald Waters, Program Officer for Scholarly Communications, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
  poster | VIDEO
  
  
• Digital Library Initiatives within the University Library System
  --Ed Galloway, Coordinator, Digital Research Library within the University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
  abstract + bio | VIDEO
  
  
• Users' Emotional and Material Satisfaction at the Micro/macro Level in Academic Libraries
  --Fei Yu, Usability Testing, eiNetwork( http://www.einetwork.net)
  abstract + bio | VIDEO
  
  
• Support for the Learner: Digital Reference to What, Where, When, Who
  --Lewis Lancaster, Professor Emeritus, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Director, Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, International and Area Studies, University of California, Berkeley
  abstract + bio | VIDEO
  
  
• Faculty Rights and Other Scholarly Communication Practices
  --Denise Troll Covey, Principal Librarian for Special Projects, Carnegie Mellon University Libraries
  abstract + bio | VIDEO | PowerPoint

2006

• Exploratory Data Analysis and Visualization for Everyone
  --Mark Derthick, Research Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University
  abstract + bio | VIDEO
  
  
• Gnosh: Meta-search in the liberal arts, libraries and beyond
  --Mike Richwalsky, Manager of Web Services at Allegheny College (Meadville, PA)
  abstract + bio |
  
  
• Crossing a Minefield: Current Problems with Internet Technology and Policy
  -- David Farber, the Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science and Public Policy in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon
  poster | VIDEO
  
  
• Muses in the Library II: The Reality of the Virtual
  --Lowry Burgess, Professor of Art, Lynn Holden, Egyptologist, and Jeffrey Jacobson,doctoral candidate at the School of Information Sciences
  abstract + bio | VIDEO
  
  
• The Muses in the Library
  --Dr. Lowry Burgess, Professor of Art, Carnegie Mellon University
  abstract + bio | VIDEO
  
  
• Progress Towards the Digital Future
  --Gloriana St. Clair, Dean, University Libraries, Carnegie Mellon University
  abstract + bio | VIDEO | PowerPoint
  
  
• Medical Informatics and Security Informatics in Digital Library
  --Hsinchun Chen, Director, Artificial Intelligence Lab and Hoffman E-Commerce Lab, McClelland Professor of MIS, University of Arizona.
  abstract + bio | VIDEO

2005

• Copyright in a Networked Society:Creative Commons and Machine-Readable Law
  --Michael W. Carroll, Associate Professor of Law, Villanova University School of Law
  abstract + bio | VIDEO
  
  
• Academic Libraries: Changing the Context for Scholarship
  --Nancy Davenport, Director, Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), Washington, DC
  abstract + bio | VIDEO
  
  
• Copyright Law and Institutional Repositories: News and Views from Across the Water
  --Charles Oppenheim, Professor, Department of Information Science, Loughborough University
  abstract + bio | VIDEO
  
  
• (Verizon Perspectives on) The Emerging Telecommunications Environment and Implications for the User Experience
  --Tony DiMaso, Vice President for Strategy and Development at Verizon Communications
  abstract + bio | VIDEO
  
  
• Next Generation CiteSeer
  --Lee Giles, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering; Director, The Intelligent Systems Research Laboratory; The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
  abstract + bio |
  
  
• Federated Digital Libraries and Middleware
  --Ken Klingenstein, senior staff of Internet2 and project director of the Internet2 Middleware and Security Initiatives
  abstract + bio |
  
  
• Semantically Enhanced System for Enforcing Privacy Preferences of Mobile Consumers
  --Nabil R. Adam, Professor, Department of Management Science and Information Systems CIMIC , Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal on Digital Libraries
  abstract + bio |
  
• A Network Overlay Architecture for Contextualized Digital Libraries
  --Carl Lagoze, Senior Research Associate, Cornell University
  abstract + bio |
  
  
• Can We Avoid Catastrophic Failures of Computer Networks?
  --Hermann Mauer, Dean, Faculty of Computer Science and Director, Institute for Hypermedia Systems, Graz University of Technology, Austria
  abstract + bio | PowerPoint
  
  
• The Development and Strategies of Digital Libraries in China
  --Zhendong Niu, Deputy Dean & Professor at the Software School at Beijing Institute of Technology
  abstract + bio |
  
  
• The Implications of Google Scholar and Google Print for the Digital Library
  --Gloriana St. Clair, Dean, University Libraries, Carnegie Mellon University
  abstract + bio | VIDEO

2004

• Perspectives on Digital Libraries Research and Infrastructure
  --Stephen Griffin, Program Director in the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, National Science Foundation
  abstract + bio | VIDEO
  
  
• The Open Video Digital Library: Design and Evaluation Challenges
  --Gary Marchionini, Professor of School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  abstract + bio | VIDEO | PowerPoint
  
  
• --Howard Wactlar ,Vice Provost for Research Computing, Associate Dean, and Alumni Research Professor of Computer Science, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
  abstract + bio |
  
  
• Cultural Informatics: Emergence of a new field
  --Gregory Crane, Professor of Classics, Tufts University
  abstract + bio | PowerPoint
  
  
• Preserving Digital Information for Reuse
  --Margaret Hedstrom, Associate Professor of School of Information, University of Michigan
  abstract + bio | PowerPoint

2003

• Accessing Information from Digital Video Libraries
  --Alan F. Smeaton, Professor of Computing, Dean of the Faculty of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Director of the Centre for Digital Video Dublin City University, Ireland
  abstract + bio |
  
  
• To Undeaf Their Ears: The spoken word in a multimedia world
  --Jerry Goldman, Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University and Creator and Director of The OYEZ Project
  abstract + bio |

2002

• Digital Library Support of Teaching and Learning
  --Edward Fox, Professor, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
  abstract + bio |

2001

• Million Book Project: Dreams to Realities
  --Gloriana St. Clair, University Librarian, Carnegie Mellon University
  abstract + bio |
  
  
  
• National needs for digital library technology: images, languages, and data fusion
  --Michael Lesk, Division Director, Information and Intelligent Systems, National Science Foundation
  abstract + bio |