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This workshop, Information-Rich Environments for Research and Teaching, aims to give humanities, arts, and social science faculty, researchers and students intensive hands-on experience for improving the quality of their work through access to advanced computing infrastructures and applications.
Event Date: July 27–August 2, 2008
Event Location: Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Urbana, Illinois
Application Deadline: June 30, 2008
Event Cost: $150
Registration Fee Includes: Instruction | Lodging | Three Meals Each Day
Program Overview: The workshop is an intensive one-week summer program for faculty, scholars, graduate students, professionals and public intellectuals. It will host 30-35 participants in a “laboratory” where together they can engage in important and creative thought and application. Workshops will illustrate suggested best scholarly practices and will include conversations with cutting-edge technology innovators in text and image analytics, informatics, visual representations of data and 3-D representations, demonstrations of new technological devices and their applications. Participants will familiarize themselves with digital applications through hands-on activities in working labs.
Workshop Topics: Introduction to Humanities High Performance Computing| Text Analytics | Data Mining | Image Analytics | Portals & Gateways | Knowledge & Semantic Systems | Virtual Research Environments | Social Networking | Virtual Reality | Modeling | Educational Pedagogies
Invited Presenters: Vernon Burton (Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Science), Thom Dunning (National Center for Supercomputing Applications), Marc Snir (University of Illinois, Illinois Informatics Initiative), John Unsworth (University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library Information and Sciences), Michael Welge (National Center for Supercomputing Applications), Andrew A. Beveridge (Queens College)
Note: Program subject to change
Registration and Full Workshop Program: http://sc08.sc-education.org/workshops/register/708
Scholarship funding is available for student participants. Please contact Paul Gray at: gray@cs.uni.edu
Sponsored by: SC08, the University of Illinois, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and the Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Science
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