May 2005

The Institute of Design Strategy Conference

(May 18-19, 2005 - Chicago, USA)
"The Institute of Design Strategy Conference is an international executive forum addressing how businesses can use design to explore emerging opportunities, solve complex problems, and achieve lasting strategic advantage."

Start date: May 18, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Enterprise Search Summit

Solving the Findability Dilemma (May 17-18, 2005) - Hilton New York, New York City
"(...) an intensive two-day learning experience that covers the nuts and bolts of developing and managing an internal search capability. The concentrated curriculum, which has been completely revised and updated for 2005, offers a structured learning environment where information managers and IT professionals can grasp the strategies and get the know-how they need to make the content that they are acquiring, publishing, organizing, and managing not only searchable, but 'findable'.”

Start date: May 17, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Don't Make Me Think: The Workshop

Learn how to think like a usability expert in eight hours or less - Presented by Steve Krug (May 13, 2005 - Boston, MA USA)
In this day-long workshop, I'll do my darndest to teach you how to think about your site's usability problems in a useful way, and how to make low-cost/no-cost testing an everyday part of your design process.

Start date: May 13, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Enterprise IA Seminar

Because Users Don't Care About Your Org Chart - Presented by Louis Rosenfeld (May 12, 2005 - Boston, MA USA)
Developing a unified web site or intranet for a large, decentralized organization is the Holy Grail for many of today's Internet professionals. This daylong seminar is for managers and web professionals who desperately want to tie together content in a rational, user-centered way, regardless of content ownership issues, cultural hurdles, and turf battles.

Start date: May 12, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

AIRWeb '05

First International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web (May 10-14, 2005 - Chiba, Japan)
Search is the single most common application used on the Web. The attraction of hundreds of millions of searches per day provides significant incentive to content providers to do whatever necessary to rank highly in search engine results. The use of techniques that push rankings higher than they belong is often called spamming a search engine. Such methods typically include textual as well as link-based techniques. Like e-mail spam, search engine spam is a form of adversarial information retrieval; the conflicting goals of accurate results of search providers and high positioning by content providers provides an interesting and real-world environment to study techniques in optimization, obfuscation, and reverse engineering, in addition to the application of information retrieval and classification.

Start date: May 10, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Graphics Interface 2005

May 9-11, 2005 - Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Graphics Interface is the Canadian annual conference devoted to computer graphics, interactive systems, and human-computer interaction. It is the oldest regularly-scheduled computer graphics and human-computer interaction conference; the first conference was held in 1969.

Start date: May 09, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

STC Conference 2005

Experiencing Technical Communication - 52nd Annual Conference (May 8-11, 2005 - Seattle, USA)
"STC's annual conference is the world's largest gathering of technical communicators. Among the many highlights of the conference are educational sessions, workshops, vendor exhibits, and displays of the winning entries of the Society's international competitions. Technical communication professionals also benefit from numerous networking opportunities and employment resources. In addition, STC chapters organize regional conferences to address the specific needs of technical communicators in a particular geographic area."

Start date: May 08, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

European Modernism and the Information Society: Informing the Present, Understanding the Past

May 6-8, 2005 - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
"(...) to provide an opportunity to examine the ideas and related institution-building activities of a group of early Twentieth Century European thinkers, strongly modernist in outlook, about how best to create, disseminate and manage publicly available information. By exploring this early European context, the conference and associated events, will offer a challenge to widely held assumptions about the origins and nature of the globalized, 'post modern' information society of today."

Start date: May 05, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink