ECAR Symposium 2005

The 2005 Program: IT's Still on the Edge—Technology, Society, Innovation, and Business Practice

Last year, Larry Smarr, Kate Hayles, and V.S. Ramachandran took us to the boundary of science and science fiction. The 2005 ECAR Symposium has been designed once again to bring together those who are crafting important changes in the world with those who study the effects of such change on our institutions and work. Sessions will encourage interaction at the nexus of theory, analysis, and practice. The 2005 program reflects ECAR's commitment to dwell on both the big issues facing society and higher education and the diversity of ECAR’s research agenda. Topics for the 2005 ECAR Symposium include IT investment and business process performance; IT governance, standards, and assessment; the Internet and American society; and strategies and practices for creating effective and durable human networks.

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Symposium overview

The ECAR Symposium is a subscriber-only event, held annually at The Boulders, an incomparable property in Carefree, Arizona, just 33 miles north of the Phoenix airport. Up to two individuals from ECAR Participating Subscriber institutions may participate and receive complimentary registration. The Symposium brings together world-class researchers and analysts whose study of higher education and information technology evolves either from work occurring under the aegis of ECAR or from complementary efforts. The ECAR Symposium program is designed in particular to balance experts from academe and ECAR research fellows with leading researchers and analysts from ECAR research partners such as Burton Group, IDC, INPUT, Gartner, and others. Participants in the ECAR Symposium help shape the ECAR research agenda for the next 18 months. Significant time is allocated to an open-forum assessment of research priorities and evaluation of hot topics for research and analysis, including discussion of speaker and topic priorities for the 2005 Symposium.

To assist you with travel plans, the ECAR Symposium schedule is:

• December 7: Reception and dinner (5:30 p.m.)
• December 8: Symposium sessions (8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.)
• December 9: Symposium sessions (8:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.)

Confirmed speakers for this Symposium include:

• Edward (Ted) Castronova, Associate Professor of Telecommunications at Indiana University, Bloomington and the author of Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games
• Jonathan Murray, Vice President and CTO of Microsoft for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)
• Mike Neuenschwander, Associate Director of Research, Burton Group
• Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project
• Madhavi Sunder, Professor, UC Davis School of Law
• Kristina Woolsey, Board Member, New Media Consortium (NMC), former Director, Apple Multimedia Lab and former Director of Research, Atari