Networking and Insights
The Summer Institute at Wallenberg Hall, July 20 - August 14
Media X again sponsors the Summer Institute at Wallenberg Hall, a selection of workshops on topics that address new opportunities at the intersection of people and advanced communication technologies. In one and two-day formats, these workshops are designed to provide working professionals with access to Stanford thought leaders and their colleagues in a hands-on, skill-based retreat setting.
Workshops include:
Social Media Collaboratory
Visualization for Collective, Connective and Distributed Intelligence
Social Connectedness in Ambient Intelligent Environments
Semantic Integration
Remote Collaboration in Mixed Media Mixed Reality Environments
Technology Transfer for Silicon Valley Outposts
The Secret Sauce of Innovation: Developing and Unleashing Exceptional Innovators
Augmented Decision Environments
Virtual Worlds and Intelligent Environments
New Metrics for New Media: Analytics for Social Media nad Virtual Worlds
Data Visualization: Theory and Practice
Developing Applications and Platforms for Open Virtual Worlds
STAP funds may be used by Stanford employees.
Places & Spaces Exhibit At Media X
Wallenberg Hall
Cartographic maps of physical places have guided mankind’s explorations for centuries. They enabled the discovery of new worlds while also marking territories inhabited by the unknown. Domain maps of abstract semantic spaces aim to serve today’s explorers navigating the world of science. These maps are generated through a scientific analysis of large-scale scholarly datasets in an effort to connect and make sense of the bits and pieces of knowledge they contain. The Places & Spaces exhibit, at Wallenberg Hall has two components. The physical component is available for display and allows for close visual inspection through high-quality prints. It is meant to inspire cross-disciplinary discussion on how best to track and communicate human activity and scientific progress on a global scale. It includes hand-on science maps for children. The online counterpart provides links to a selected series of maps and their makers along with detailed explanations of why these maps work.
Open reception following the May 18 Seminar will include Jeff Heer and students, Katy Borner (virtual presence) and other mapmakers of the Places & Spaces exhibit.
The Internet2 Sociotechnical Summit was held in Ann Arbor in 1999 to create a research agenda in high bandwidth communications for the social sciences. Sponsored by Cisco and the John D. Evans Foundation, the meeting was organized by Martha Russell, then at The University of Texas at Austin, with a steering committee including Ellen Wartella, then The University of Texas at Austin – now at UC Riverside, Barbara O’Keefe, then University of Michigan – now at Northwestern University, and Byron Reeves, Stanford University.
Each Internet2 organization was invited to send an engineer and a social scientist to the meeting. Chuck House, then at Intel, presented the keynote address to nearly 200 attendees, who had come two-by-two, as Noah’s Ark, from Internet2 business and academic organizations. The monograph of the I2 Sociotechnical Summit identified five major themes for social science research: Collaboration, Education, Presence, Technology Transfer, and Policy. Several university centers focused on these themes, including Media X, were created subsequently.
In the 10 years since the Internet2 Summit, the greater part of that research agenda has been accomplished. A new research agenda is now emerging for the social sciences and technology in advanced communications technologies.
John D. Evans and Doug van Houweling will present a seminar on April 20, 4-5 pm, 124 Wallenberg Hall.
Building Effective Virtual Teams
For the 2007 Wallenberg Summer Institute, Media X sponsored a Workshop, "Building Effective Virtual Teams: Tools, Techniques, Best Practices and Gotcha’s for Creating and Leading Distributed Teams".
This intensive workshop featured leading-edge research answers for companies using teams in multiple locations, especially off-shored or outsourced teams. New tools and methodologies as well as key research conclusions for what works and, importantly, what has been awkward, difficult or even disastrous were covered. Participants were expected to share their own approaches, results, and current concerns. Discussion was wide-ranging.
The monograph of the workshop (1.7MB pdf) is available for download here.
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