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KMDI creates, produces and sponsors a number of events, including distinguished lectures, graduate fellows lectures, topical lecture series, workshops and conferences.

As an intellectual incubator, KMDI has always considered events to be an important way of exploring, developing and nurturing new ideas as well as providing an opportunity to engage with intellectuals and leaders in government, industry and academia.

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2009-2010

Part 3	*KMDI at 13 Lecture Series*
Oct.1, 2009	Inclusive Design Jutta Treviranus - Designing for Diversity Steve Hockema - Inclusive Software Design: Rethinking the 'Interface'
Oct. 22, 2009	Enabling Open Scholarship Gale Moore - The Institutionalisation of Openness in Universities Leslie Chan - Changing Scholarly and Pedagogical Practices in an Open Knowledge Environment Gunther Eysenbach - The Scholarly Impact of Open Access in Medicine and Biomedical Research
Oct. 29, 2009	A Panel on ICT Policy, Innovation, Commercialization and Careers David Wolfe - ICT Clusters in Canada Eugene Fiume - Why Monetizing Innovation in Digital Media is Hard and Getting Harder David Ticoll - Why Jane & Johnny Don't Want IT-related Careers... and How to Fix It Moderated by Adriana Ieraci
Nov. 12, 2009	Supporting Visual Thinking and Creativity John Danahy - Local Climate Change Visualization and Decision-making Nick Woolridge - Visual Design of Knowledge Media
Nov. 26, 2009	Mobility and Wireless Mark Chignell - Applications of Sensors in Healthcare Khai Truong - Designing Eyes-free Interaction Techniques for Mobile Devices
Dec. 17, 2009	Poster Session - showcasing the work of KMDI at 13 presenters and their students!

CS Distinguished Lecture Series

Sept. 22, 2009	Computer Science: Past, Present, and Future Ed Lazowska, the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair, University of Washington
Oct. 20, 2009	Discrete Stochastic Simulation of Spatially Inhomogeneous Biochemical Systems Linda Petzold, UC Santa Barbara
Nov. 10, 2009	My 28-year Quest to Overcome the State Explosion Problem Edmund Clarke, Carnegie Mellon
Dec. 1, 2009	High Performance Computers and Compilers: A Personal Perspective Fran Allen, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Feb. 9, 2010	Interactive Media Research at The Walt Disney Company Joe Marks, Vice President of Disney Research
Mar. 30, 2010	Maja Mataric, University of Southern California

Other Talks

Feb. 11, 2010	Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology Allan Collins from Northwestern University Abstract

Part 1
Jan. 15, 2009	Enabling Enhanced Communications and Commerce Barry Wellman - "Social Networks Meet Computer Networks," Mark Fox - "Spending Together: Commerce in a Socially Networked World"
Feb. 10, 2009	Leveling the Playing Field Ron Deibert - Leveling the Playing Field for Citizen Iintelligence Alex Jadad- Leveling the Playing Field for Optimal Health
Feb. 26, 2009	Supporting Learning and Teaching Jim Slotta -New Ways of Teaching and Learning With Technology Clare Brett- Digital Communication Technologies: Educational and Social Practices Jim Hewitt - Technologies for Higher Education
Mar. 12, 2009	Supporting Enhanced Cognition and Stemming Cognitive Decline Ron Baecker - Technology for Cognitive Support Ian Spence - Video Games as a Tool for Research in Cognition
Part 2
Mar. 26, 2009	Digital Media, Publics, and the Politics of Truths and Forgetting Nadia Caidi - Whose Right to Know? Infomation Control and the Politics of Forgetting Past 9/11 Megan Boler- Digital Dissent Producers' Conceptions of Truths and the Media Nicholas Burbules - Blogs and the Memory Hole: Writing, Reading and Recapturing History
Apr. 14, 2009	Understanding Language Understanding Gerald Penn - Understanding Speech Graeme Hirst - Understand Text from Both the User's and Writer's Perspective Ian Lancashire - Understanding and Author's Intentions with Computer Text Analysis
May 7, 2009	Ensuring Privacy and Security Andrew Clement - Privacy, ID Cards and Public Participation in Identity Policy Making Kostas Plataniotis - Technological Challenges in Ensuring Privacy and Security
May 26, 2009	Enabling Collaboration to Improve Health Elsa Marziali - Internet Hometelehealth Programs for Patients with Chronic Disease Peter Pennefather and West Suhanic - Collaborative Diagnostics and the Intercase: Addressing the One Person One Record Problem

May 14, 2009	What is “Visual Language"?: What comics can tell us about the Mind Neil Cohn, PhD Candidate, Tufts University
May 21, 2009	Illustrating and Creating Scientific Knowledge: A socio-technical journey Nick Woolridge, Biomedical Communications, U of T
May 28, 2009	Visualizations for Learning and Instruction: Integration within inquiry environments. Jim Slotta, Curriculum, Teaching and learning, OISE/UT
June 4, 2009	Generating Representations (the Infovis Perspective) Sheelagh Carpendale, University of Calgary
June 11, 2009	Tools of an Attention Trader Greg Van Alstyne, OCAD
June 18th, 2009	Perception and the Process of Visual Thinking Colin Ware, University of New Hampshire

Sept. 16, 2008	Technology for Developing Regions: Computer Science Matters Eric Brewer, University of California, Berkeley
Oct.28, 2008	Probabilistic Models for Holistic Scene Understanding Daphne Koller, Stanford University
Nov. 4, 2008	Web Search Prabhakar Raghavan, Yahoo! Research
Nov. 18, 2008	Designing for Human Values in Information Systems Batya Friedman, University of Washington
Dec. 2, 2008	Should / Could Computing Be Better? and Breakout Session Alan Kay, Viewpoints Research Institute
Dec. 9, 2008	Inducing Meaning from Text Dan Jurafsky, Stanford University
Jan. 27, 2009	Shree K Nayer, Columbia University

Sept. 25, 2008	Design in India: A Paradigm of Ascension' Shashank Mehta from National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India Abstract
Sept. 29, 2008	Group Norms Colin Furness, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Information Part of KMDI's In-Process Graduate Research Series
Sept. 30, 2008	The Relationship of Koreans' Social Networks Across Five Media Ronald Rice, University of California, Santa Barbara
Oct. 23, 2008	Networks for Redefining Disorder: Internet-based Public Health Brian Goldfarb, University of California, San Diego
Nov. 7, 2008	Crowds, Communities, and Open Access: Examining Trends in Peer Production Caroline Haythornthwaite, Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Jan. 27, 2009	How can KMDI help you with a career in Knowledge Management? Joel Alleyne, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Information Part of KMDI's In-Practice Alumni Series
Jan. 29, 2009	Social Contagions Micheal Macy, Sociology, Cornell University
Feb. 24, 2009	Doctoral Consortiums Experiences Presented by PhD Candidates Lysanne Lessard, Faculty of Information, Danielle Lottridge, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, and Karen Smith, Faculty of Information Part of KMDI's In-Process Graduate Research Series
Apr. 28, 2009	Why are Geometric Proofs (Usually) "Non-Visual"?Peter Coppin, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Information Part of KMDI's In-Process Graduate Research Series

July 5, 2007	Copyright vs. Community in the Age of Computer Networks Richard Stallman, Free Software Activist Co-sponsored by KMDI's Project OS\|OA and the Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, University of Toronto Mississauga University of Toronto Mississauga
July 10, 2007	Informal Discussion of New Directions for Pew Internet Research Lee Rainie, Founding Director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project Sponsored by KMDI
Oct. 29, 2007	Who Wants Total Recall? An Argument for Taking Forgetting Seriously Liam Bannon, Interaction Design Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland Background paper Sponsored by KMDI
Oct 30 - Nov 2, 2007	Social Network/ing Week @ UofT Bell University Laboratories Co-sponsored by KMDI, the Field's Institute, and the Department of Sociology-- Netlab
Nov. 22, 2007	The Monograph Meets Facebook: Knowledge Management or Just Friends John Willinsky, Stanford University, Public Knowledge Project [background paper] [Open Monograph Press] Sponsored by KMDI
Nov. 29, 2007	Transforming Faces Joseph Ferenbok, KMDI Graduate Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in the Faculty of Information Studies First seminar of KMDI's In-Process Graduate Research Series
Dec. 6, 2007	Dave Gillis, Interaction Designer/ Information Architect First seminar of KMDI's In-Practice Alumni Series
Jan. 17, 2008	On Synergies and its Impact on Social Sciences and Humanities Research Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Universite de Montreal
Jan 31, 2008	Knowledge Media Strategy, Change, and Transformation in Government Stuart Bailey, Information and Information Technology Policy Advisor, and Cathie Salyn, Senior Business Transformation Consultant, Government of Ontario Poster Part of KMDI's In-Practice Alumni Series
Feb. 20, 2008	ePresence Day in Ottawa
Mar. 5, 2008	Towards the Design of Electronic Cognitive Prostheses Ron Baecker (CS, KMDI) for OCAD President's Speaker Series
May 13, 2008	Designing Technology for a more Curious World William Gaver, Goldsmiths, University of London, for KMDI Distinguished Lecture Poster
June 25-27, 2008	ELPUB 2008-- Open Scholarship: Authority, Community and Sustainability in the Age of Web 2.0. Toronto, ON. Hosted by KMDI.

Oct. 22nd, 2007	Second Working Conference on Social Computing and Business at CASCON 2007 Learning in the 21st Century: Jim Slotta (OISE/UT, KMDI), Canada Research Chair for Education and Technology, and Clare Brett, (OISE/UT, KMDI) Tagging as a Social Contract: Alvin Chin, Mark Chignell (MIE, KMDI), and Sara Darvish, U of T
Oct. 22, 2007	"Open Innovation" Workshop at CASCON 2007 Gale Moore (Soc, KMDI) and Chris Paterson, IBM Canada Government Programs Executive Archive
Oct. 23, 2007	"The Networked Revolution" Keynote Presentation at CASCON 2007 Barry Wellman (Soc, KMDI), S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology and Director, NetLab, U of T

Mar. 6, 2008	Design Knowledge: Constraint and Innovation Nick Woolridge, BMC, KMDI Background Paper
Mar. 13, 2008	Voices from Beyond: Ephemeral Histories, Locative Media and the Volatile Interface Michael Longford & Barbara Crow, York University Background Paper Authors Bio
Mar. 20, 2008	Design Thinking: Integration, Inspiration, and Incomplete Information Rodney Hoinkes, Parallel World Labs, Inc. More Information Author Bio
Mar. 27, 2008	Generalizing Biologically Inspired Design for Engineering Problem Solving Li Shu, MIE, U of T Background Paper Author Bio
April 3, 2008	Solving the Ideation Gap through Design and Complexity Tomás Dorta,Université de Montréal Background Paper 1, Background Paper 2 Author Bio
April 25, 2008	About Design: Thought Begat Context / Context Begat Thought Bill Buxton, Microsoft Research Background Paper 1, Background Paper 2 Author Bio
May 1, 2008	Design Research & KMD: A Panel Discussion: Danielle Lottridge, Kate Sellen, Karen Smith, Joan Touzet, Moderated by Gale Moore Background Paper: Sanders, Elizabeth. 2006. Design research in 2006. DRQ: Design Research Quarterly 1: 1, 4-8.
May 14, 2008	A New Paradigm for HCI? Design Research as Research William Gaver, Goldsmiths, University of London Background Paper 1 Background Paper 2
May 20, 2008	Designerly Ways of Knowing: Understanding how designers think and work Nigel Cross, Open University, UK

Oct. 13, 2006	Ben Shneiderman, Professor, University of Maryland, Computer Science Distinguished Lecture, co-sponsored by KMDI. The Thrill of Discovery: Information Visualization for High-Dimensional Spaces
Oct. 17, 2006	Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist, Google. Internet in the 21st Century Poster
Oct. 23, 2006	Roy D. Pea, Professor of Education and Learning Sciences, Stanford University. Networked Collaborative Video Analysis as a New Resource for Distributed Intelligence and Learning. Co-sponsored by IKIT, KMDI & ATRC Poster
Oct. 24, 2006	Barry Wellman, S.D. Clark Chair. S.D. Clark Lecture: The Internet in Everyday Life Poster
Nov. 21, 2006	Jonathan Grudin, Principal Researcher, Adaptive Systems and Interaction Group, Microsoft Research. (Rapidly) Emerging Technologies and Knowledge Management Computer Science Distinguished Lecture, co-sponsored by KMDI.
Nov. 30, 2006	Peter Jones, reDESIGN ReSEARCH, "Not Found in Search Results": What Can We Learn From Information Practices?
Nov. 30, 2006	John Foreman, Technology Marketing Resource Centre, My Customer, My Co-innovator: A Synopsis of a Peer-to-Peer Roundtable Forum for Senior Executives of Leading Technology Companies. Co-sponsored by KMDI, CATA_Alliance, Access Group, Whetstone Inc., Pearson Group of Companies, The Result Source, Technology Marketing Resource Centre.
Apr. 23, 2007	Clayton Lewis, Professor of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Human-centered Computing and the Future of Computer Science. Co-sponsored by KMDI, the Department of Computer Science, and the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto.
Apr. 26, 2007	Guo Liang, Deputy Director, Center for Social Development, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China in the Age of the Internet. Co-sponsored by KMDI, the Department of Sociology, and NetLab, University of Toronto.

Mar. 2, 2006	PANEL: Re-Imaging Science Panelists: John Dubinski, Astronomy and Astrophysics, UofT Jason Sharpe, Partner, AXS Biomedical Animation Studio Moderator: Nick Woolridge, Biomedical Communications and KMDI
Mar. 9, 2006	PANEL: Parallel Worlds: The evolution of real and virtual communities Participants: Rodney Hoinkes, Stacey Spiegel of I-MMERSiON and the Centre for Landscape Research Moderator: John Danahy (CLR, FALD, KMDI) Poster
Mar. 23, 2006	PANEL: Beyond Ryan Participants: Chris Landreth (Director), Patrick Coleman (PhD candidate, CS), Dave Baas (Seneca College), Mike McGuffin (PhD candidate, CS) Moderator: Karan Singh (CS, KMDI) Poster
Mar. 30, 2006	PANEL: Body image: Image of the body Participants: Johanna Householder (OCAD), Shannon Bell (York University) Moderator: Nina Czegledy (Senior Fellow, KMDI) Poster
Apr. 6, 2006	Closing PANEL: Dissolving Boundaries Re-considered Speaker: Sara Diamond, President Ontario College of Art & Design Moderator: Gale Moore, Director, KMDI

Other Events
April 3, 2006	NextWeb Co-sponsored by KMDI/Habitat New Media
June 15, 2006	Mapping the Social Side of Cyberspace Speaker: Danyel Fisher, Microsoft Research

Date	Title
Feb. 10, 2005	Copyright & The Internet: Is There a Canadian Way? Dr. Michael Geist, Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law, University of Ottawa and author of the Toronto’s Star’s weekly column Law Bytes Poster
Feb. 24, 2005	PANEL: Taking Software Open Source: Three Views Ron Baecker, Professor, Computer Science/KMDI, Jutta Treviranus, Director ATRC/KMDI, Claus Rinner, Assistant Professor, Geography Poster
Mar. 10, 2005	Collaborate: Education & Urban Play Trebor Scholtz, Institute for Distributed Creativity, SUNY, Buffalo Poster
Mar. 17, 2005	Creative Commons, eh? Marcus, Bornfreund, Director, Creative Commons.ca, Professor & Manager of the University of Ottawa Law & Technology Program Poster
Mar. 31, 2005	The Access Principle: The New Economics of Knowledge as a Public Good John Willinsky, Principal Investigator of the Public Knowledge Project: & Professor, Faculty of Education, UBC Poster
Apr. 7, 2005	Beyond Open Access: The Political Economy of Knowledge Jean-Claude Guédon, Professeur titulaire, Département de littérature comparée, Université de Montréal Poster

Date	Title
Oct. 30, 2003	The Wildfire Spread of Computational Ideas Brian Cantwell Smith, Dean Faculty of Information Studies
Nov. 28, 2003	KMDI Retreat Estates of Sunnybrook
Dec. 11, 2003	Poster Presentation from KMD 2002 and FIS 2179 Faculty of Information Studies, 7th floor, Common Room
Jan. 8, 2004	Quality of Knowledge Media Design for Instruction Must be Evaluated Masha Etkind, Ryerson University & Uri Shafrir, OISE/UT, KMDI
Jan. 22, 2004	New Directions in Interactive Art & Entertainment: A brief survey of work from Habitat new media lab at the Canadian Film Centre Ana Serrano, Director, Habitat new media lab
Jan. 29, 2004	DGP Lab Tour [Room 5181] Ravin Balakrishnan, Computer Science, KMDI
Feb. 5, 2004	Panel : WSIS-SMSI Report on Geneva 2004: Civil Society Perspective Moderated by: Liss Jeffrey, eLab, McLuhan, KMDI Panelists: Leslie Chan,UTSC,KMDI, David Mason, eLab & Andrew Clement FIS, KMDI
Feb. 26, 2004	Consultation on KMDI's Draft Academic Plan
Mar. 4, 2004	The Body in Cyberculture Megan Boler, OISE/UT, KMDI
Mar. 11, 2004	Toward a Learning Society? Evaluating the Role of ICT and Knowledge Media in the Case of the Millennium Dialogue on Early Child Development Anita Zjidemans, PhD candidate, OISE Introduction: Kelly Juhasz , KMDI Student Representative
Mar. 18, 2004	The Pain Week Initiative Nick Woolridge, BMC, KMDI & Jodie Jenkinson, BMC, KMDI
Mar. 25, 2004	KMDI Graduate Fellow Talk Wenhong Chen (PhD Candidate, SOC) The Internet, social networks, and transnational entrepreneurship Introduction: Robert Luke, KMDI Graduate Fellow, OISE/UT
Apr. 1, 2004	Panel : Lateral Conversations Moderator: Gale Moore, Director, KMDI, SOC Panelists: Bill Thompson, CCIT@ UTM, KMDI) & Leslie Chan,UTSC, KMDI
Apr. 15, 2004	Panel: Collaborative Learning Objects Moderator: Jutta Treviranus, RCAT, KMDI Panelists: Lawrence Spero, Medicine, KMDI & Robert Luke, KMDI Graduate Fellow,OISE/UT
Apr. 8, 2004	KMDI Graduate Fellow Talk Jeff Boase (PhD Candidate, SOC) Strong Ties, Weak Ties, and ICT Ties: Results from the Pew Social Ties Survey Introduction : Ana Viseu , KMDI Fellow
Apr. 22, 2004	The Role of Design in Software Product Development Bill Buxton, Buxton Design & Computer Science Poster
Apr. 29, 2004	ATRC Lab Tour - Robarts Library,1st floor

Date	Title
Oct. 30, 2001	Are court records public or private? Ken Anderson, Head Legal Dept. IPCO
Nov. 12, 2001	Terrorism, Freedom and Surveillance David Lyon, Professor, Queen's University
Nov. 26, 2001	Topic to be announced Barry Sookman, Lawyer, McCarthy Tetrault LLP
Dec. 10, 2001	Designing Privacy in Smartcards: the Ontario Case Peter Hope-Tindall, Privacy Architect, dataPrivacy Partners, Ontario Smartcard

Date	Title
Feb. 6, 2002	MIT's OpenCourseWare Initiative: A Major Initiative in Global Information Sharing Steven R. Lerman, MIT Class of '22 Professor, Director, Center for Educational Computing Initiatives, Chair of the MIT OpenCourseWare Interim Management Board; with President Robert Birgeneau, Dean Carl Amrhein, and Ron Baecker, University of Toronto
Feb. 13, 2002	Designing online facilities that really leverage learning Steven Shaw, Educational Technology Program, Department of Education, Concordia University
Feb. 20, 2002	The Rise and Demise of On-Line Education David Noble, Department of Political Science, York University. This talk will begin at 5:30 pm. Note: this talk will not be webcast as per speaker's request.
Feb. 27, 2002	Educational Webcasting: Technology, Process, Uses, and Issues Ron Baecker (UToronto), Dr. Bob Hsuing (Faculty of Medicine, University of Chicago), Dan Keating (OISE/UToronto)
Mar. 6, 2002	If a classroom could listen, would anyone care? Experiences with eClass Gregory Abowd, College of Computing, Georgia Tech
Mar. 13, 2002	Systems Supporting Student (and Public) Engagement with Research John Willinsky, Pacific Press Professor of Literacy and Technology, University of British Columbia
Mar. 27, 2002	Metadata, objects and repositories: Steps towards the Semantic web in Education Terry Anderson, Professor and Research Chair in Distance Education, Athabasca University
Apr. 3, 2002	Are Physicians Right When They Think They are Right? Implications for Medical Education and Informatics Charles Friedman, Assoc. Vice Chancellor for Biomedical Informatics, UPittsburgh.
Apr. 9, 2002	The K-12 Classroom of the Future Allison Druin, Human-Computer Interaction Lab & College of Education, University of Maryland. This talk will begin at 4:30 pm
Apr. 17, 2002	The impact of e-learning on the university campus: measuring the costs and benefits Tony Bates, Director of Distance Education and Technology, Continuing Studies, University of British Columbia

Date	Title
Feb. 1, 2001	Cognitive Engineering Kim Vicente, Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
Feb. 8, 2001	Technology & Furniture Shane Williamson, Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto
Feb. 15, 2001	Webcasting Jonathan Grudin, PhD, Microsoft Research
Mar. 1, 2001	Interactive Surfaces David Martin, SMART Technologies Inc.
Mar. 8, 2001	Community Networks Jim Snyder, PhD, AT&T Labs - Research
Mar. 15, 2001	Videoconferencing Martin Brooks, PhD, NRC
Mar. 22, 2001	Human-Computer Interaction Andrew Dillon, Professor, Indiana University
Mar. 29, 2001	Public Space Online Liss Jeffrey, PhD, eLab & McLuhan Program, University of Toronto
Apr. 5, 2001	Immersion Technology & VR Rodney Hoinkes, Immersion Studios Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, Professor, York University
Apr. 12, 2001	Feature Evolution Colin Potts, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
Apr. 19, 2001	Interface Architecture Gary Perlman, PhD, OCLC: Online Computer Library Center Inc.
Apr. 26, 2001	KMDI Panel debating the question: To what extent are we designing for people, and what are the social implications of failing to do so?

Date	Title
Nov. 26, 2004	Why Standards Matter: The Case for e-Learning and Business Half-day workshop presented by Resource Centrefor Academic Technology and KMDI
Dec. 9, 2004	Mountains, Exploration, Education, Rich Media & Design Professor Bill Buxton, KMDI Visiting Professor Poster
Apr. 5, 2005	Biometrics Tutorial Moderator: Joseph Ferenbok Bahen Centre for Information Technology Room BA7231 University of Toronto
Apr. 6, 2005	Reaching the Unreached: India 's Mission 2007 Professor Subbiah Arunachalam Bahen Centre for Information Technology Room BA2175 University of Toronto

Date	Title
Oct. 3, 2002	Advanced User-Interface Design Development for Next-Generation Phone/PDA Mobile Devices Aaron Marcus AM+A, Aaron Marcus and Associates Inc., Emeryville, CA Poster
Oct. 17, 2002	Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work Anne Balsamo, Consulting Faculty, Stanford University Poster
Oct. 31, 2002	Experiences in the Participatory Design of Knowledge Media in Non-Profit and Commercial Settings Jeannette Blomberg, Professor, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Randy Trigg, Global Fund for Women, San Francisco
Nov. 21, 2002	The Political Culture of the Internet: A Mixed Review Mark Crispin Miller, Professor, Media Ecology, NYU, New York Poster
Nov. 28, 2002	Reconfiguring Relations at the Interface Lucy Suchman, Professor, Sociology, Cartmel College, Lancaster University, UK Poster
Jan. 16, 2003	Technologies for Managing and Sharing Knowledge John B. Dominque, Deputy Director of the Knowledge Media Institute at The Open University, UK Poster
Feb. 13, 2003	Telethics for Telepresence: The Ethics of Immersive Virtual Environments Steve Jones, Professor and Head of Communication, University of Illinois - Chicago & President of the Association of Internet Researchers Poster
Mar. 27, 2003	Thinking Locally/Acting Globally: A Participatory Design Agenda for Higher Education David Bogen, Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies at Emerson College, Boston Poster

Date	Title
Oct. 28, 1999	Public Faces, Private Spaces: Digital Identity and Electronic Monitoring in a "Virtual" Workplace Brenda McPhail & Andrew Clement, Faculty of Information Studies
Nov. 4, 1999	Desktop Virtual Reality David Modjeska, DGP, Computer Science
Nov. 18, 1999	Coordinative Structures in Complex Work Environments John Hajdukiewicz, Cognitive Engineering Lab
Nov. 25, 1999	The Tao and Dow of the World Wide Web: Implications for the New Literacy Monica Schaefel, DGP, Computer Science
Dec. 2, 1999	Orientation and Navigation in Endoscopy Caroline Cao, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Dec. 9, 1999	Socio-Technical Complexities: Electronic Cash in Canada Felix Stalder, Faculty of Information Studies

Date	Title
Sept. 24, 1998	Mass-Audience Visual Telepresence David Abrams, Perceptual Robotics, Inc.
Oct. 1, 1998	Extended Mind: Language, Thought and Chaos Theory Robert Logan, Dept of Physics University of Toronto
Oct. 7, 1998	PEBBLES: A Communication System for Hospitalized Children Deborah Fels Ryerson University
Oct. 15, 1998	Technology, Capability and Behaviour Mark Chignell, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering University of Toronto
Oct. 22, 1998	Writing a CITO Research Proposal Connie Putterman Vic Diciccio CITO
Oct. 23, 1998	Sharing Knowledge in Virtual Organizations: Ethnography of Cyberspace David Hakken, Anthropology SUNY/TD
Oct. 29, 1998	Metrics for Information Visualization Richard Brath CS & Manager, Tech Support and Visual Solutions
Nov. 2, 1998	Open Forum on the University of Toronto "Smart" Card The introduction of a chip-based smart card as the U of T student card (the "T-card") marks a new phase in the computerization of campus life. The T-card is a combination identity card and wallet which authorizes access to various campus facilities, such as the library and gym, and allows you to purchase goods with the cash stored on the chip. The T-card raises a host of serious issues for individuals and the University community as a whole. The Identity Technology Working Group has organized a moderated forum to take place on Monday, November 2, 1998 from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. in the Great Hall at Hart House. Everyone is invited and welcome to attend. KMDI is a proud sponsor of this event.
Nov. 5, 1998	On Being a Camera: Personal Imaging within the context of Humanistic Intelligence and Intelligent Signal Processing Steve Mann, Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Toronto
Nov. 12, 1998	Threaded Discourse and Effective Groupwork Jim Hewitt, OISE/UT
Nov. 19, 1998	Living the Wired Life in the Wired Suburb: The Netville Project Keith Hampton & Barry Wellman, Sociology University of Toronto
Nov. 26, 1998	Compensatory and Pursuit Tracking John Senders, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering University of Toronto
Dec. 3, 1998	Renaissance Electronic Texts Ian Lanchasire, Department of English University of Toronto

Date	Title
Jan. 19, 1999	Sustaining Mentoring Relationships On-Line Kevin O'Neill OISE/UT
Jan. 26, 1999	'New' Media in 'Old' Urban Areas Shauna Brail Dept of Geography, University of Toronto
Feb. 2, 1999	Hitting the Mark: Using an Action Research Model to Research Youth Through the Internet David Haans, Oonagh Maley, Louise Smith Community Health, University of Toronto
Feb. 9, 1999	Digital Democracy-- As Participatory Design: Using Old and New Media to Build Knowledge Networks Liss Jeffrey McLuhan Program for Culture and Technology, University of Toronto
Mar. 2, 1999	The Games People Play: Gender Role Play and Gaming on the Net Rhainnon Bury OISE/UT
Mar. 9, 1999	Women's Studies Round Table on the Internet OISE/UT
Mar. 16, 1999	WebStars: Holistic, Arts-Based College Curriculum in Computer Applications Selia Karsten OISE/UT
Mar. 23, 1999	Development of a hypermedia program designed to assist patients with localized prostate in making treatment decisions Jodie Jenkinson Biomedical Communications, University of Toronto
Apr. 6, 1999	Designing for Medical Work Domains: Directions, Challenges and Opportunities John Hajdukiewicz Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
Apr. 13, 1999	The REED Patrons Database: Envisioning the History of Early Theatre in an Age of Electronic Media Design Roger Starling REED Project and Dept of English, University of Toronto
Apr. 20, 1999	Learning Complex Software Gale Moore, Sociology Joanna McGrenere, Computer Science University of Toronto
May 13, 1999	Digital Library Information Appliances Gene Golovchinsky Sr. Research Scientist at FX Palo Alto Laboratory (FXPAL)
June 9, 1999	Telephony as an Information Portal Gerald Karam Research Scientist at AT&T Labs
June 11, 1999	Sociotechnical Systems Research Problems in a Dynamic, High-Tech Society Jens Rasmussen Professor Emeritus Technical University of Denmark, Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa, University of Toronto

Date	Title
Sept. 18, 1997	KMDI Status Report and Plans for the Future Ron Baecker and Gale Moore, KMDI University of Toronto
Sept. 25, 1997	Enterprise Integration: Needs, Technology, Implications Mark Fox, Industrial Engineering University of Toronto
Oct. 7, 1997	Deep Blue: IBM's Massively Parallel Chess Machine Gabriel M. Silberman IBM Centre for Advanced Studies IBM Toronto Laboratory Co-Sponsored with the Department of Computer Science
Oct. 9, 1997	TeenNet: Engaging Youth In Health Promotion Via The Internet Harvey Skinner and Meg Morrison Dept of Public Health Sciences and Grad Dept of Community Health University of Toronto
Oct. 16, 1997	New Technology and Organization Design Harvey Kolodny J.L. Rotman School of Management University of Toronto
Oct. 29, 1997	The Practice of User-Centred Design at IBM Karel Vredenberg IBM UCD Architect & Corporate Team Leader Co-Sponsored by the Department of Computer Science
Oct. 30, 1997	Infographics from the bottom up Liora Salter, Professor, Osgoode Hall and Environmental Studies York University
Nov. 7, 1997	Beyond Virtual Classrooms: Using The New Knowledge Media Marc Eisenstadt Open University Milton Keynes, UK
Nov. 11, 1997	Measuring Usability: Evolving Quality Metrics for User Interface Designs Larry Constantine Principal Consultant, Constantine & Lockwood, Ltd. (Rowley, MA) Professor of Computing Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney Co-Sponsored with the Department of Computer Science
Nov. 13, 1997	Facilitating Chance Encounters with Information Elaine Toms Dalhousie University
Nov. 20, 1997	Where is the knowledge in 'knowledge media'? Carl Bereiter OISE/UT
Nov. 25, 1997	The World Wide Web as a Database Alberto Mendelzon Department of Computer Science University of Toronto Co-Sponsored with the Department of Computer Science
Nov. 27, 1997	How Organizations Network Barry Wellman and Laura Garton Centre for Urban and Community Studies University of Toronto
Dec. 4, 1997	Visual Literacy and Design for New Media Lynn Holden Centre for Academic Technology University of Toronto

Date	Title
Sept. 27, 1996	Special Talk: Vision and Manipulation in Endoscopic Surgery Christine MacKenzie Simon Fraser University
Oct. 3 , 1996	Advanced Human Computer Interface Design for Process Control Systems Kim Vicente, Mechanical-Industrial Engineering
Oct. 10, 1996	Human-Centred Design Gale Moore, Research and Education Specialist Peter Timmerman, Professor and Researcher IFIAS
Oct. 17, 1996	Computation and Biomedical Communications Nicholas Woolridge, Biomedical Communications
Oct. 31, 1996	Simulated Motor Skills for Character Animation Michiel van de Panne, Computer Science
Nov. 14, 1996	Bagels, Connectivity, and Interactive Communities Paul Hoffert, Director of Cultech & Chair Ontario Arts Council
Nov. 15, 1996	Mining Links, or How to Build a Para-Site Ellen Spertus MIT & University of Washington
Nov. 28, 1996	Snapshots of Current U of T Web Research Graduate Student Presentations Solicited (contact Ann-Barbara Graff)
Dec. 5, 1996	Adaptive Technology Jutta Treviranus, Director of Adaptive Technology. Research Centre

Date	Title
Jan. 23, 1997	On the Web of Knowledge Media Design (KMD) Ronald Baecker University of Toronto
Jan. 30, 1997	Towards a Knowledge-Building Society Marlene Scardamalia University of Toronto
Feb. 6 , 1997	A Decade of Experience with Organizational Memory Irene Greif IBM/Lotus (Cambridge, MA)
Feb. 27, 1997	Design and Contextual Learning for Health Professionals Lawrence Spero University of Toronto
Mar. 6, 1997	Collaborative Technologies for Geographically Distributed Engineering Teams Steven Poltrock Boeing (Seattle, WA)
Mar. 13, 1997	Knowledge Media as Media Derrick de Kerckhove University of Toronto
Mar. 20, 1997	Learning Through Designing: Computational Construction Kits for Kids Mitchel Resnick M.I.T.
Apr. 3, 1997	Mastering Visible Wisdom: UI Design and Info Visualization Aaron Marcus and Ed Guttman AM & Assoc. (Berkeley, CA)
Apr. 10, 1997	Knowledge Media in Work Practice Lucy Suchman Xerox PARC (Palo Alto, CA)e
Apr. 17, 1997	Policy Implications for Knowledge Media: Universal Access, Employment and Public Participation in Developing Information Infrastructures Andrew Clement University of Toronto

Date	Title
Feb. 8, 1996	Computer Based Multimedia for Authoring Motion Pictures Ron Baecker, Computer Science
Feb. 22, 1996	A System for Universal Media Searching (SUMS) Kim Veltman, McLuhan Program
Mar. 7, 1996	Variations in the Design of Media and Telecommunicating Janet Salaff, Sociology
Mar. 21, 1996	The Information Highway Report: A Critical Response Andrew Clement, Faculty of Information Studies
Mar. 28, 1996	Design Simulation and Communication John Danahy, Landscape Architecture
Apr. 25, 1996	The Potential Role of Patient Simulations and Medical Informatics in Improving Healthcare Lawrence Spero, Faculty of Medicine
June. 26, 1996	Intelligent Video handling and Some Applications Hirotada Ueda, Hitachi Denshi
July. 24, 1996	New Media and Organizational Structuring: the Sublimation of Boundaries in Meaning and Relations Ron Rice, Rutgers University

Date	Title
Apr. 28, 1996	Session 1: Plenary Session The Internet and its Impact Session Chair: Ronald Baecker University of Toronto The Internet and the Information Revolution Shumpei Kumon Center for Global Communications International University of Japan
Apr. 29, 1996	Session 2: Internet Technology The Past, Present and Future of Internet TBA The Multimedia Internet Stephen Deering, Xerox PARC Agents on the Internet Tom Erickson, Apple Computer Crop. Internet Security: New Problems, New Solutions Lance Hoffman, George Washington University Session 3: World Wide Web The Past, Present, and Future of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee, W3 Consortium Document Object Wars Robert Arn, InContext Systems Java and Active Web Pages Robert Sproull, Sun Microsystems Digital Assets and Interactive 3D on the Web Ray Miller, Alias ‌‌‌Wavefront Session 4: Applications to Education The Internet in Schools Mary Beam, Education Network of Ontario The Learning Highway Trevor Owen, York University Lifelong Learning Communities Linda Harasim, Simon Fraser University
Apr. 30, 1996	Session 5: Social Impacts of Virtual Communities ‘Give me a place to stand and a place to grow and I will build…’ David Sutherland, Nation Capitol FreeNet Where’s the Group? Support Groups On-Line Lee Sproull, Boston University “Information Superhighway” to “Global Finger-Painting Party”: Better Metaphors for Cyberspace Amy Bruckman, M.I.T. Electronic Ladyland: A Status Report on Gender and the Internet Leslie Regan Shade, McGill University Session 6: Information , Research and Publishing on the Net Session Chair: Carole Moore, University of Toronto Digital Libraries and the Information Order David Levy, Xerox PARC Information Access and Resource Discovery Mic Bowman, Transarc Corp. From Memex to Web and Beyond Andries van Dam, Brown University Session 7: Business and Government on the Net Economics of the Internet Hal Varian, University of California Berkeley Commerce on the Net Andrew Whinston, University of Texas Session 8: Plenary Session Technology and Democracy The New Technology and Democracy: Allies or Adversaries? Benjamin Barber, Rutgers University
May. 1, 1996	Session 9: Legal and Regulatory Issues Session Chair: Ian Kyer, Fasken Campell Godfrey Content Versus Carriage in Communications Law Hudson Janisch, University of Toronto Cyberspace and the No-Regulation Fallacy: A European Perspective on Regulation of Online Services and the Internet Christopher J. Millard, Clifford Chance (London, UK) Lost in Cyberia: Electronic Transmission under the Law of Copyright William A. Tanenbaum, Kenyon and Kenyon (New York) Privacy in Electronic Communications David Flaherty, B.C. Information and Privacy Commissioner Session 10: Ethical and Political Issues Session Chair: C.C. Gotlieb, University of Toronto Issues for Government David Johnston, McGill University Implications of Telework Jean-Claude Parrot, Canadian Labour Congress The Real Meaning of Free Speech in Cyberspace Jeffrey Shallitt, University of Waterloo Looking Out for Public Interests: Universal Access and Citizen Participation Andrew Clement, University of Toronto

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