Martin Wattenberg developed the “Baby Name Wizard” which provides a visual analysis tool to help users assess the popularity of baby names over time as a companion to “The Baby Name Wizard: A Magical Method for Finding the Perfect Name for Your Baby” written by his wife, Laura Wattenberg.
The opening JCDL plenary lecture […]

San Francisco, CA According to an IBM study all 1,407,724,920 people who use the internet will double the amount of digital information in the world every 11 hours by 2010. Should we keep it all? And if the answer is yes, how will that work exactly? Should it be accessible or will it land in […]

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NSDL Core Integration Director Kaye Howe.
Saint Paul, Minnesota was the site of JA-SIG 2008 April 27-30, 2008. With the theme, “Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way” it’s no surprise that National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Core Integration Director Kaye Howe was on hand to deliver the […]

On April 23, 2008 Cornell University’s 2005-2008 Networks Theme Project capped the three-year teaching and research initiative with a lecture by team members including David Easley (Economics), Jon Kleinberg (Computer Science), Kathleen O’Connor (JGSM), Michael Macy (Sociology), and Dan Huttenlocher (Computer Science & JGSM) entitled “Getting Connected: Social Science in the Age of Networks.”
David Easley […]

The Southampton Bargate located in the midst of downtown shops, is part of the old town walls dating back to the Saxon era.
The Third Annual Open Repositories Conference (OR08) opened at the University of Southampton, UK, on April 1, 2008 with an observation by conference co-chair Les Carr. He suggested that the collective efforts […]

A key question pondered by many presenters at the Computation + Journalism Symposium at Georgia Tech in Atlanta was trying to get at what the combination of those two concepts meant. Georgia Tech does not have a school of journalism, but invited speakers from many well-respected news organizations to weigh in about how they saw […]

The One Laptop Per Child logo is as bright, hopeful and open as the project itself. OLPC is laying the groundwork for a world where every child will have the opportunity to take advantage of cyber learning opportunities.
AAAS’s tag line, “Advancing science, serving society,” was evident in many presentations at their Annual Meeting in […]

The intersection of science and the human condition as a “global enterprise” was the subject of AAAS President Dr. David Baltimore’s opening address to attendees at the Annual Meeting Opening Ceremony on Feb. 14, 2008 in Boston. Baltimore is a leading biologist and a California Institute of Technology Professor of Biology who was co-recipient of […]

The Conference Center in Washington, D.C was the site of the NSF Workshop. Robert Payo, NSDL Outreach Specialist speaking with an attendee.
A friendly-looking person, often laden with SWAG (stuff everyone gets at conferences) approaches the NSDL exhibit booth. Opening pleasantries commence—“Where are you from? What do you do?”— before demonstrations and conversation about the […]

Each year Lee Zia, NSDL’s program director, sums up our collective Annual Meeting experience with a few elegant lines of haiku. This year’s offerings have been published in Zia’s new Expert Voices blog entitled, “A View from NSF.” Read his blog introduction here.
The 2006 Zia Annual Meeting Haiku can be found here.