The Summer Symposium for Higher Education, 2008

The Summer 2008 Program: IT and the Future of Exploration

Recent ECAR research has suggested that despite rising demand for central IT engagement in scholarship of a data-intensive, multi-institutional, and interdisciplinary nature, most of us are not really "there" for our research communities. But we need to get there. The research methods of more and more disciplines rely on the computation and management of large and complex data sets, often carried out in collaborative digital environments. The 2008 Summer Symposium will look at the future of academic exploration and the role that the information technology community plays in this vital part of higher education's mission. Eminent researchers will tell us about emerging IT-influenced work in fields including medicine, biology, history, and the arts. As always, symposium sessions will encourage interaction at the nexus of theory, analysis, and practice.

• Symposium agenda (Full details)

Speakers

• Vernon Burton, Director of the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Rudolf Dimper, Head, Computing Services Division, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
• Robert Franza, President of the Seattle Science Foundation
• Ira Greenberg, Associate Professor, School of Fine Arts and Interactive Media Studies and affiliated member of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Analysis at Miami University of Ohio
• Heidi Hammel, Senior Research Scientist and Codirector of the Research Branch at the Space Science Institute
• Gwen Jacobs, Professor, Cell Biology and Neuroscience, and Assistant CIO and Academic Computing Director, Montana State University
• Kevin Trenberth, Head of the Climate Analysis Section, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Schedule

To assist you with travel plans, the summer symposium schedule is: