[Sociam-soton] Agenda for today's meeting

[Susan Davies]

Hi All

Just to remind you that we are meeting at the earlier time of 2.30pm today in the Access Grid Room.  In addition to our discussions with Prof Bernstein, we have a few other items to discuss, as below:

Agenda

1.      Chapters for book on Social Collective Intelligence (Ramine & Max)

2.      Hardware cluster status

3.      Presentations and Demos for Visitors

4.      Meetings for remainder of 2013:

*         Monday 2 December, 1530-1700 (additional meeting)

*         Monday 9 December, 1530-1700

*         Thursday 19 December, 1500-1630 (provisional)

*         NO meeting on Monday 23 December

5.      AOB

Many thanks

Susan
______________________
Susan Davies
Project Coordination Manager
Web and Internet Science Research Group
Electronics & Computer Science
University of Southampton
Southampton SO17 1BJ

T 023 8059 3523
F 023 8059 2783

From: sociam-soton-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:sociam-soton-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Susan Davies
Sent: 20 November 2013 11:36
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Subject: [Sociam-soton] Monday's Meeting - change of time

Hi All

Our meeting on Monday 25 November will start at the earlier time of 2.30pm-4.00pm and will be in the Access Grid Room 3073.  This is to allow Prof Avi Bernstein to join our meeting, before he has to catch a flight home.  Please let me know if you have any particular topics that you would like to discuss during our meeting, which would fit in with Prof Bernstein's research interests.

You should have seen the email from Rikki Prince announcing the WAIS Seminar that Prof Bernstein will be giving at 11am on Monday.   In case you missed this, the details are below:

Date: Monday 25th November 2013
Time: 11:00
Location: 67/1007

Title: Programming the Global Brain - Implications for Computer Science

Speaker: Abraham Bernstein

Abstract:
Before the Internet most collaborators had to be sufficiently close by to work together towards a certain goal. Now, the cost of collaborating with anybody anywhere on the world has been reduced to almost zero. As a result large-scale collaboration between humans and computers has become technically feasible. In these collaborative setups humans can carry the part of the weight of processing. Hence, people and computers become a kind of "global brain" of distributed interleaved human-machine computation (often called collective intelligence, social computing, or various other terms). Human computers as part of computational processes, however, come with their own strengths and issues. In particular, they exhibit three special traits: motivational diversity, cognitive diversity, and error diversity. In this talk I present the general idea of the global brain, discuss the implications of this new kind of computer for computer science, and present three of our research projects that try to address some of the issues that arise when programming the global brain.

Biosketch:
Abraham Bernstein is a Full Professor of informatics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. His current research focuses on various aspects of the semantic web, knowledge discovery/data mining, crowd computing/collective intelligence, and data stream processing. His work is based on both social science (organizational psychology/sociology/economics) and technical (computer science, artificial intelligence) foundations. Mr. Bernstein is a Ph.D. from MIT and has a Diploma in Computer Science (comparable to a M.S.) from the Swiss Federal Institute in Zurich (ETH). He is on the editorial board of the ACM Transactions on Intelligent Interactive Systems (TIIS), AMC Transactions on Internet technology, International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), Informatik Spektrum by Springer, and the Journal of Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web (JWS) as well as the executive board of the Swiss informatics society, ICTswitzerland, and the Semantic Web Science Association.

Many thanks

Susan
______________________
Susan Davies
Project Coordination Manager
Web and Internet Science Research Group
Electronics & Computer Science
University of Southampton
Southampton SO17 1BJ

T 023 8059 3523
F 023 8059 2783

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