New Horizons in Teaching and Research 2008 Conference May 19 - 22

For times and dates of presentations, please see the daily schedule, or pick up a program at any of our open house sessions on May 19th.

The New Horizons conference will include invited lectures by:

• Dan Cohen, director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason and creator of Zotero: "Creating Scholarly Tools and Resources for the Digital Ecosystem,"
• and Ben Fry, author of Visualizing Data and creator of Processing, an easy-to-use programming language for visualizations: "Computational Information Design,"

as well as a panel discussion featuring TAPoR director Geoffrey Rockwell, on scholarly possibilities opened up by mass digitization projects like those of Google Books (represented by engineering director Dan Clancy) and the Open Library (represented by regional director Linda Frueh).

Local faculty speakers and performers include:

• Dean Abernathy
• Silvia Blemker
• Glen Bull
• Fernando Eugenio Catta-Preta
• Phoebe Crisman
• Johanna Drucker
• Sarah Farrell
• Bill Ferster
• David Germano
• James Hilton
• Carole Horwitz
• Jason Johnson
• Charles Kromkowski
• Paxton Marshall
• Worthy Martin
• Lydia Moyer
• William McDonald
• Norman Oliver
• Deborah Parker
• Judith Shatin
• Mir Siadaty
• Paul Walker

Lunchtime roundtable discussions will be hosted by:

• Brian Balogh (digital infrastructure for teaching and learning)
• Dennis Collins and Steve Johnson (beTech Labs and the beTech community)
• David Germano (a new Digital Humanities Center at UVA)
• Andrew Grimshaw and John Hawley (a new center for Computational Science at UVA)
• Michael McPherson (collaborative communities in the Library and ITC)
• Bethany Nowviskie (graduate student concerns in digital humanities)

And New Horizons will also feature informative workshop presentations by:

• Madelyn Wessel (scholarly communications and intellectual property issues)
• Bob DuCharme (semantic web technologies RDF and OWL)
• Trisha Gordon, Chris Husser, Bob Ribando, and Jim Cocola (UVACollab and the Toolkit transition)
• Susan Barr and Robert Le Heup (Faculty/Advisor Self-Service in UVA's new Student System)

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