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Resnick announces new health informatics initiatives at national forum

June 7, 2011

Professor Paul Resnick will announce the 2011 launch of the new health informatics certificate program on Thursday, June 9, at approximately 10:15 a.m., at the Health Data Initiative Forum of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies in Bethesda, Maryland. He will also announce the new master of health informatics degree, which is expected to be approved by the Presidents Council, State Universities of Michigan later this month and enroll its first class in 2012. Both the certificate program and the master’s degree are joint programs of the School of Information and the School of Public Health.

For those interested in viewing the forum, all morning plenary sessions will be streamed live between 9 a.m. and noon in Space 2435 of North Quad. A continental breakfast will be provided at 8:30 a.m. The public is invited to attend for all or part of the video presentation.

RSVP to Meghan Genovese, health information program manager, at meghang@umich.edu.

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SI Research Celebration on May 2

April 26, 2011

The annual School of Information Research Celebration will take place at 2 p.m. Monday, May 2 in the Ehrlicher Room, 3100 North Quad. Doug Van Houweling, associate dean for research and innovation, will present the 2010-11 annual report, highlights of current research projects, and a preview of what’s ahead in 2011-12. The event will also include the presentation of the Yahoo! Student Teaching Awards to two Ph.D. students. A dessert reception will follow.

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Entrepreneur and Internet innovator speaks Monday

April 13, 2011

nathan_stollThe first speaker in the Google Lecture Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Nathan Stoll, will share stories of innovation and entrepreneurship at his startup company Aardvark, Monday, April 18 at noon in the Ehrlicher Room, 3100 North Quad. A light lunch will be served.

Aardvark is a social search tool that taps the knowledge of people in a user’s network. It was acquired by Google in February 2010. An early and long-time Googler, Stoll briefly returned to Google to help with the company’s transition during the spring and summer of 2010.

Before leaving to start Aardvark, Stoll headed Google News, overseeing its rapid expansion to more than 40 countries and growth into one of the top global news sites. Earlier in his product management career at Google, he launched Google Suggest, a search suggestion service now used in most Google searches.

He worked extensively on the early Google Adwords system and with Google’s internal analytics teams and developed a number of patented pricing adjustment and forecasting models. Stoll holds degrees in computer science and political science from Stanford University.

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U.S. Health and Human Services CTO to speak at SI

March 25, 2011

"Todd Park"Todd Park, chief technology officer for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will present a guest lecture at the School of Information on at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 6 in the Ehrlicher Room, 3100 North Quad.

His topic is “A Historic Opportunity: Unleashing the Power of Open Data and Innovation to Improve Health.”

“There has never been a better time to be an innovator at the intersection of health care and IT,” he states. The Obama administration senior official outlines the potential for innovative technological solutions to health care issues as a result of new federal incentives and the liberation of vast amounts of information.

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National Security lab deputy director to speak at SI

March 22, 2011

Mark E. Segal, deputy director, Laboratory for Telecommunications Sciences at the National Security Agency, will present a talk on “Computer Science Research at the National Security Agency” on Wednesday, March 30 at noon in the Ehrlicher Room, 3100 North Quad.

He will discuss the work of the research laboratory and the National Security Agency, some of the difficult technical challenges they face, and the ways in which the NSA collaborates with universities.

NSA logoThe Laboratory for Telecommunications Sciences is part of the NSA Research Directorate and is located on the campus of the University of Maryland in College Park. As a member of the LTS senior leadership team, Segal oversees the formulation and execution of a networking and computing scientific research program that enhances the NSA signals intelligence and information assurance missions.

 Prior to joining NSA in 2007, Segal worked in the telecommunications industry for 18 years. He has conducted research in the areas of distributed computing, dependable systems, information assurance, and multimedia systems. He holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in computer and communications sciences from the University of Michigan.

This talk is sponsored by the School of Information. The public is invited and lunch will be provided.

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Your expertise can help two community orgs

March 20, 2011

SI students are invited to a design jam to help nonprofit and community organizations develop a participant tracking system. The Open.Michigan Catalyst Series event will be co-hosted by the Community Information Corps at SI and Open.Michigan. It will run from 6-8 p.m. Thursday, March 24 in 1255 North Quad (a dinner will be provided).

As a participant, you’ll get experience with group brainstorming to come up with solutions for real problems that community organizations face. You’ll also learn about design techniques and how technology can be used to create solutions. Best of all, you don’t need a programming background to contribute your ideas.

Representatives from the Neutral Zone in Ann Arbor and the Ruth Ellis Center in Detroit will attend. If you’d like to participate, please RSVP.

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Tracking digital footprints with network science

March 14, 2011

The SI community is invited to hear candidates for faculty openings at the School.

Jukka-Pekka Onnela (Social Computing opening)
“Harnessing Network Science to Reveal Our Digital Footprints”
Noon-1 p.m.
Monday, March 21
Ehrlicher Room, 3100 North Quad

Jukka-Pekka “JP” Onnela is a network scientist interested in a broad  range of theoretical and applied network problems. He is completing his second year as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School. From 2008-09, he spent one year as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School working on networks, and prior to that, held a two-year research fellowship at Oxford University in the Physics Department and the Business School. He completed his Ph.D. in network science in 2006. His dissertation, “Complex Networks in the Study of Financial and Social Systems,” won the dissertation of the year prize at Helsinki University of Technology.

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Exploring barriers to public sector social media

March 1, 2011

Cliff Lampe of Michigan State University will deliver the next Faculty Guest Lecture at the School of Information on “Social Media and the Public Sector: Inherent Barriers to Adoption” when he visits Tuesday, March 15. Lampe’s talk will be at noon in the Ehrlicher Room, 3100 North Quad. All are invited.

Lampe is an assistant professor in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media at MSU. He earned his doctorate at the School of Information, and he also holds degrees from MSU and Kalamazoo College.

In describing his talk, Lampe says:

“Organizations that serve the public, including local units of government and nonprofit organizations, see potential in using social media to serve their residents. Seeking feedback on policies, organizing community events, and micro-broadcasting relevant news are just a few of the activities that these organizations feel social media can facilitate. While the external efficacy of these groups is high, and they believe these tools can improve their service, the internal efficacy is often low as the organizations struggle with how to use the tools.

“In addition, the complexity of of multiple constituents, changing policies, and embedded organizational structures of the public sector can hinder the use of social media to meet these collective action goals. This presentation will review several social media projects involving public sector outreach. We’ll focus in on one project, a crowd-sourcing application for a state-wide organization, with analysis of how inherent barriers affected the use and adoption of the application. Using content analysis, interviews, and surveys in a context of action research, we’ll examine a case where social media was not successfully used, and what contributed to that outcome.”

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SI Service Day set for Jan. 15

January 7, 2011

On Saturday, Jan. 15, during the Martin Luther King weekend, SI students, alumni, faculty, and staff are invited to participate in SI Service Day – a chance to put their skills and talents to work at one of several Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti area nonprofits. The project creates opportunities to develop or strengthen relationships between the School of Information and local cultural organizations by utilizing the unique abilities and interests of the SI community.

Volunteer opportunities are available at the following organizations:

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Copyright, fair use subject of seminar

November 8, 2010

The SI community is invited to a seminar on copyright law and fair use sponsored by the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and the Thomas M. Cooley Law School on Saturday, Nov. 13.

“The Harry Potter Lexicon Case: Pushing the Limits of Fair Use” seminar will feature a panel on J.K Rowling v. RDR Books, the seminal fair-use case known as the Harry Potter Lexicon Case. Jack Bernard, U-M assistant general counsel, will open the program. Additional talks on “History and Overview of Copyright Law” and “The Fair Use Doctrine” will follow.

Panel members discussing the Harry Potter Lexicon case will include RDR Books owner Roger Rapoport, Stanford Fair Use Project associate director Julie Ahrens, and intellectual property attorney Lawrence Jordan of Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss in Detroit.

Coffee and registration begin at 9:30 a.m. The program will run from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Cooley Law School Library, 3475 Plymouth Rd. The cost is $25 ($10 for students with valid ID) and includes lunch. Free parking. Reservations required; call (248) 646-9100 or write to mbower@saffordbaker.com.

Additional sponsors include the State Bar of Michigan ACES Law Section, and the Right to Write Fund.

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