The 2012 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science will be held on the University of Chicago’s Hyde Park campus around the weekend of November 17th — 19th, 2012.
Stay tuned for more information about the venue, call for papers, and other details!
This posting is to clarify for everyone who has not already received the e-mail confirmation (sent to all registrants) that we have moved the conference from Regents Hall to Kasbeer Hall, which is located at 25 East Pearson, Chicago, IL, 60611, which is the main building at our Water Tower Campus. (If you did not receive this e-mail, you should assume your registration is ok and we’ll generate a name tag for you anyway.)
This and other questions that you might have can be found on the FAQ page, which will be updated as other questions arise throughout the conference. Please don’t hesitate to contact George K. Thiruvathukal (gkt@cs.luc.edu) if you have any questions.
We are pleased to announce our keynote speakers for DHCS 2011.
Barbara Maria Stafford is the Distinguished University Visiting Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her work has consistently explored the intersections between the visual arts and the physical and biological sciences from the early modern to the contemporary era. Her current research charts the revolutionary ways the neurosciences are changing our views of the human and animal sensorium, shaping our fundamental assumptions about perception, sensation, emotion, mental imagery, and subjectivity. Stafford’s most recent book is Echo Objects: The Cognitive Work of Images, University of Chicago Press, 2007. Her talk is entitled Visualizing Attention: The Need for Conscious Seeing in Visual Search.
Nick Montfort is associate professor of digital media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Montfort has collaborated on the blog Grand Text Auto, the sticker novel Implementation, and 2002: A Palindrome Story. He writes poems, text generators, and interactive fiction such as Book and Volume and Ad Verbum. Most recently, he has published Riddle & Bind (Spineless Books, 2010) and together with Ian Bogost, Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (MIT Press, 2009). Montfort also wrote Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction (MIT Press, 2003) and co-edited The Electronic Literature Collection Volume 1 (ELO, 2006) and The New Media Reader (MIT Press, 2003). His talk will be focused on Platform Studies.
Ajita John began her research career at Bell Labs and is now a Research Scientist at Avaya Labs. Her work explores the interplay between social media and rich media interactions over audio and video and has proposed live collaborative tagging - a new form of tagging in the enterprise where participants in an audio conference collaboratively tag the conversation with freely-formed keywords. Her research has explored searching and browsing of tagged rich media and developed computational models for inferring expertise and macro-level properties for user communities in social networks. Her talk titled Conversations: Then and Now; How Social Media has Changed Interactions and Perspectives will focus on the impact of social media feedback for conversations in the enterprise and in public forums, techniques to integrate the feedback into persisted conversations, and visual perspectives in information retrieval for social media-based content. Ajita holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin, has authored numerous conference and journal papers, book chapters, and holds several patents.
The 2011 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science will be held on Nov. 19-21st at Loyola University Chicago. Please see the 2011 Call for Papers for additional details. Deadline for paper and poster submissions is September 15th.
