Events

Yesterday, today, and tomorrow NCSA is running the PSP 2007 meeting. You may find some of my blogging about it here.

Jon Kleinberg is visiting UIUC today and giving a talk “Decentralized Search, Cascading Behavior, and the Structure of On-Line Communities” in the Age of Networks seminar series. The abstract of his talk today: The rise of large-scale information networks has provided us with systems that are simultaneously social and technological in nature, and in which the human interactions that unfold can be recorded and studied in extraordinary detail. Against this backdrop, a significant amount of recent work has focused on the development of mathematical models that capture some of the qualitative properties observed in large-scale network data; such models have the potential to help us reason, at a general level, about the ways in which large networks are organized, and about the ways in which abstract models can capture the processes we observe. ...

There is a poetry contest at UIUC in honor of Paul Borgeson (former UIUC decesed faculty). You still have time to turn your poem in till April 6th. It is never to late to have fun.

I am traveling again. This time Seattle was the first stop. NCSA was having a private sector partner meeting at Boeing. I was invited to present the work about DISCUS we are doing as part of the LINK alliance endeavor. And from Seattle to Tokyo where Yukio Ohsawa is organizing “Cubes for innovation: Information Systems for Design and Marketing”. The workshop sponsored by Tsukuba University and IEEE is being held today at University of Tokyo. I was invited to go over our work on DISCUS to create IT infrastructure to support innovative and creative processes. You can find the slides of my presentation above (you can also download the PDF). ...

The 2007 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference submission deadline has been extended from Wednesday, January 17 to WEDNESDAY JANUARY 31, 22:00 Pacific Standard Time.