Program

The 2008 IST Graduate Symposium will open at the Nittany Lion Inn at noon on January 31st and will run through the entire day on February 1st. For more general information and to register please visit the About and Attending pages.

The program can be downloaded here: PDF

Schedule at a Glance

 
Time
Boardroom 1
Boardroom 2
Assembly Room
Thurday - January 31, 2008
Registration
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Registration (Atrium)
Opening Remarks
12:30 pm - 12:45 pm
Dean / Committee
(Ballroom A, B, C)
Plenary 1
12:45 pm - 1:30 pm
David Cohn, Director of Business Informatics, IBM T.J. Watson
(Ballroom A, B, C)
Session 1
1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
Presentation Session 1
Panel Session 1
Panel Session 2
Session 2
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Presentation Session 2
Panel Session 3
Opening Keynote
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Dr. Peter Norvig, Director of Research, Google
(Ballroom A, B, C)
Reception
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Reception (hors d'oeuvres)
(Ballroom D, E)
Friday
Continental Breakfast
7:30 am -8:30 am
Continental Breakfast (Ballroom A, B, C) and
Registration (Atrium)
Plenary 2
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Antonio Pensa, Assistant Director of Aerospace Division, MIT Lincoln Lab
(Ballroom A, B, C)
Plenary 3
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Piero Bonissone, GE Global Research
(Ballroom A, B, C)
Session 3
9:45 am - 10:45 am
Presentation Session 3
Panel Session 4
Presentation Session 4
Session 4
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Presentation Session 5
Panel Session 5
Tutorial Session
Lunch
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Lunch (Ballroom A, B, C)
Poster Session
12:15 pm - 12:45 pm
Poster Session in parallel (Ballroom D)
Keynote
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Joyce Bromberg, Director of Workspace Futures, Steelcase
(Ballroom A, B, C)
Session 5
2:15 pm - 3:15 pm
Presentation Session 6
Panel Session 6
Presentation Session 7
Session 6
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Presentation Session 8
Panel Session 7

Presentation Sessions

  1. Communities and Technology
  2. Search and Extraction
  3. Engineering and Organizations
  4. Virtual Teams
  5. Games and Virtual Worlds
  6. Organizations and IT
  7. Customization
  8. Teams

Panel Sessions

  1. Implications of IST in the Developing World
  2. Service Sciences
  3. Strategic Role of IT and the Future of Work
  4. Future of Information Search
  5. Security vs. Privacy
  6. From Open Code to Easy Code: Where are we and what's next for Open Source, End-User Programming and Mash-ups?
  7. CyberSociety and Science

Tutorial Session

CSCW and Creativity

**All events will be held at the Nittany Lion Inn

The 2008 IST Graduate Symposium will open in the early afternoon on January 31st and will run through the entire day on February 1st.