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Dec. 11, 2017

Alexis Hiniker was awarded $67,572 as a recipient of the 2017H2 Mozilla Research Grants for her research Understanding Design Opportunities for In-Home Digital Assistants for Low- and Middle-Income Families. Congratulations, Alexis!

Ricardo Gomez has terrific news of both poster and paper acceptances:

  • iConference 2018: Two posters.
    • Women’s Contributions to Living Fully in a Tseltal Indigenous Information System. With Yvette Iribe, Jeannie Berwick, Maria del Mar Moreno, Genoveva Vergara.
    • Exacerbating the Vulnerabilities of Undocumented Migrants: The Risks Involved in the Humanitarian Information Activities of Migrant-Aid Organizations. With Bryce Newell, Sara Vannini, and David Nemer.
  • Sage’s new Journal of Migration and Society
    • Interdisciplinary approaches to refugee and migration studies: Lessons from collaborative research on sanctuary in the changing times of Trump. With Sara Vannini, Megan Carney, and Katharyne Mitchell.
  • ICIS Conference 2017 in Seoul, South Korea
    • Integrated Information Systems for Indigenous Community Development in Chiapas, Mexico: The case of SIET. With Yvette Iribe, Sigifredo Mora, & Jeannie Berwick.

Adam Moore presented two papers at the 7th Annual Weekend Exploring Liberty at the University of Illinois in Springfield from November 30th – December 3rd, 2017.

  • “Privacy, Security, and Liberty” explored the limits of security-based arguments for restricting individual privacy and liberty.
  • “Intellectual Property, Liberty, and the Prisoner’s Dilemma” centered on the liberty enhancing features of copyright, patent, and trade secret instructions.
  • Adam has also been asked to give a Keynote Presentation at the 16th annual Information Ethics Roundtable (IER) in Copenhagen, May 17th-18th 2018. The title of his presentation is “Privacy, Security, and Surveillance: Big Data and the New Accountability.”

Anna Hoffmann and Jevin West gave talks at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C. for the Roundtable on Data Science Postsecondary Education: Integrating Ethics and Privacy Concerns into Data Science Education. This meeting brought together data scientists and educators to discuss how to discuss topics, strategies, and approaches to integrating ethics and privacy concerns into data science education.

  • The title of Anna’s talk was “What We Really Talk About When We Talk About Ethics: Navigating History, Privilege, and Power in Information and Data Science.”
  • The title of Jevin’s talk was “Calling B.S. in the Age of Data Science Euphoria.”

Anna Hoffman also traveled to Los Angeles where she spoke at the following events:

Jevin West has more terrific news to share:

Joseph T. Tennis had three acceptances to ISKO 2018 (International Society for Knowledge Organization):

  • “Intellectual History, History of Ideas, and Subject Ontogeny.”
  • “The Influence of Metatheoretical Research on Knowledge Organization.” With Paula Carina de Araújo and Zé Guimarães.”
  • Workshop: Politics of Classification

Lily Rajan had a paper accepted for ISKO 2018 titled, "Historical Ambiguity: A Lens for Approaching Outdated Terms."

Wan-Chen Lee had a paper accepted to ISKO 2018 titled, “Author Information for Knowledge Organization in the Digital Age.”

Jaime Teevan (Affiliate Associate Professor) was featured in the first-ever Microsoft Research podcast. In the podcast she detailed her work looking into productivity, including methods for getting more done in a day.