| February 8-14, 2004 |
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| Monday, February 9 |
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| 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. |
Brown Bag Lunch with Ron Larsen and Martin Weiss
(5th Floor Large Commons Area, IS Building) |
| Friday, February 13 |
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| 9:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
IST Faculty Meeting (501 IS Building) |
| 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
Laboratory of Education and Research on Security
Assured Information Systems (LERSAIS) speaker Martin
Lindner, Senior Member, Computer Emergency Readiness
Term (CERT) Coordination Center, Software Engineering
Institute, Carnegie Mellon University discusses “Protecting
the Critical Layers of the Cyber Infrastructure"
(120 David Lawrence Hall) More... |
| February 15-21, 2004 |
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| Monday, February 16 |
Summer Term Registration Begins |
| 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. |
Brown Bag Lunch with Ron Larsen and Martin Weiss
(5th Floor Large Commons Area, IS Building) |
| Thursday, February 19 |
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| 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
Faculty Candidate, Kenneth R. Fleischmann, colloquium
“Exploring the Design-Use Interface: The
Agency of Boundary Objects in Educational Technology”
(Room 405 IS Buildinig) More... |
| 2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. |
Faculty Candidate, Kenneth R. Fleischmann, meeting
with students (2nd Floor Multipurpose Room, IS Building) |
| 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
Digital Library Colloquium Series speaker, Margaret
Hedstrom, Associate Professor, School of Information,
University of Michigan discusses “Preserving
Digital Information for Reuse” (4623 Wean
Hall on CMU Campus) with Reception Following More... |
| Friday, February 20 |
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| 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. |
Welcome coffee for Anupam Joshi (5th Floor Large
Commons Area, IS Building) |
| 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
Laboratory of Education and Research on Security
Assured Information Systems (LERSAIS) speaker Anupam
Joshi, Associate Professor, Department of Computer
Science and Electrical Engineering, University of
Maryland discusses “Security, Trust and
Privacy in Pervasive Computing” (120 David
Lawrence Hall) More.. |
| 12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m. |
DLIS/SIS Doctoral Colloquium Series
"Information Science for Secondary School
Students" (Dr. Anthony Debons)
"Backlinks and Persistence on the WWW: A
Bibliometric Approachy" (Dr. Patrice Clemson) |
| February 22-28, 2004 |
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| Monday, February 23 |
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| 12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m. |
Brown Bag Lunch with Ron Larsen and Martin Weiss
(5th Floor Large Commons Area, IS Building) |
| 12:00 noon |
SIS/PITT Brown Bag Seminar on "Extending
CLARANS to High-dimensional Spaces" (503
IS Building) More..
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| 4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. |
SIS Information Session (1st Floor Conference Room,
IS Building) |
| Wednesday, February 25 |
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| 10:00 a.m. – 12 Noon |
LIS Doctoral Studies (501 IS Building) |
| Thursday, February 26 |
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| 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. |
Dissertation Proposal Defense for Xiaobing Hou
on "Energy Conservation for Wireless Ad-Hoc
Routing" (5th Floor Large Commons Area, IS
Building) More..
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| Friday, February 27 |
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| 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. |
Welcome coffee for Tom Longstaff (5th Floor Large
Commons Area, IS Building) |
| 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
Laboratory of Education and Research on Security
Assured Information Systems (LERSAIS) speaker Tom
Longstaff discusses “Network Situational
Awareness” (120 David Lawrence Hall) More.. |
| 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
Dissertation Proposal Defense for Masaru Okuda
on "Scalable High Quality P2P Streaming Content
Distribution Network" (5 th Floor Large Commons
Area, IS Building) More.. |
| 3:00 p.m. |
University of Pittsburgh’s Honors Convocation
(Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, Music Hall on Forbes
Avenue) |
| March 1-6, 2004 |
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| Monday, March 1 |
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| 11:00 a.m. – 12 noon |
Faculty Candidate, Robert J. Sandusky colloquium
“Information Management in Software Development:
Varieties, Contexts, Processes and Social Order”
(Room 403 IS Building) More.. |
| 12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m. |
Brown Bag Lunch with Ron Larsen and Martin Weiss
(5th Floor Large Commons Area, IS Building) |
| 12:00 noon |
SIS/PITT Brown Bag Seminar on "MONAP -
Technology for ITS design" (IS 2nd Floor
Conference Hall) More..
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| 12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. |
Dissertation Proposal Defense for Kamol Kaemarungsi
on "Design of Indoor Positioning Systems Based
on Location Fingerprinting Technique" (503
IS Building) More..
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| Wednesday, March 3 |
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| 10:00 a.m. – 12 Noon |
LIS Faculty Meeting (501 IS Building)
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| Thursday, March 4 |
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| 9:30 p.m. |
Dissertation Proposal Defense for Ratchata Peachavanish
on "GeoInterpret: A Framework for Ontology-Based
Geoprocessing" (503 IS Building) More..
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| 11:00 a.m. – 12 noon |
Faculty Candidate, Ajantha herath colloquium “High
Performance cryptography In Distributed Secure Communications”
(Room 405 IS Building) More.. |
| 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. |
Comprehensive Exam for Nattapong Swangmung (1 st
Floor Conference Room, IS Building) More..
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| Friday, March 5 |
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| 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. |
Welcome Coffee for Carl E. Landwehr (503 IS Building)
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| 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
School-wide faculty meeting (5 th Floor Large Commons
Area, IS Building)
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| 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m. |
Brown Bag lunch following the School-wide faculty
meeting (5 th Floor Large Commons Area, IS Building)
|
| 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
Laboratory of Education and Research on Security
Assured Information Systems (LERSAIS) speaker Dr.
Carl E. Landwehr discusses “Trying to Improve
Information Flow in the Information Security Market”
(120 David Lawrence Hall) More.. |
| March 7-13, 2004 |
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| Sunday, March 7 |
Spring Recess for students begins |
| Monday, March 8 |
|
| 12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m. |
Brown Bag Lunch with Ron Larsen and Martin Weiss
(5th Floor Large Commons Area, IS Building) |
| Friday, March 12 |
University Closed (Great American’s Day) |
| March 14-20, 2004 |
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| Sunday, March 14 |
Spring Recess for students end |
| Monday, March 15 |
|
| 12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m. |
Brown Bag Lunch with Ron Larsen and Martin Weiss
(5th Floor Large Commons Area, IS Building) |
| Tuesday, March 16 |
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| 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
Faculty Candidate, Rodion M. Podorozhny , colloquium
"Managing System Artifacts" (Room 405 IS
Building) More..
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| Wednesday, March 17 |
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| 10:00 a.m. - 12 noon |
LIS Doctoral Studies (501 IS Building) |
| Thursday, March 18 |
Fall Registration and Add/Drop Begins |
| 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
Faculty Candidate, Emily Marsh , colloquium "Show
And Tell: relationships Between Images And Text"
(Room 405 IS Building) More..
|
| 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. |
Student, Alumni, & Faculty Cadre (Dave &
Buster’s @ the Waterfront) |
| Friday, March 19 |
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| 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. |
Spring Term Telecommunications Program Written Preliminary
Exam (503 IS Building) |
| 9:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
IST Faculty Meeting (503 IS Building) |
| 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. |
Welcome coffee for Eugene H. Spafford (5th Floor
Large Commons Area, IS Building) |
| 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
Laboratory of Education and Research on Security
Assured Information Systems (LERSAIS) speaker Eugene
H. Spafford , Director, Center for Education and Research
in Information Assurance and Security (CERAIS), Professor,
Department of Computer Science, Purdue University
discusses “Exploring Grand Challenges in
Information Security” (120 David Lawrence
Hall) more.. |
| 12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m. |
DLIS/SIS Doctoral Colloquium Series (1st Floor Conference
Room, IS Building)
Richard J. Cox “What Is Past Is Prologue:
New and Needed Research in Archival Studies”
Lingling Lillian Lai “Knowledge Organization
in Consulting Firms” more.. |
| March 21-27, 2004 |
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| Monday, March 22 |
|
| 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. |
Welcome coffee for Dr. Shigeo Sugimoto (University
of Tsukuba in Japan) and Faculty Candidate (5th Floor
Large Commons Area, IS Building) |
| 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
Faculty Candidate, David Dubin , colloquium "Semantic
Markup Or Markup Semantics?" (Room 403 IS Building)
more..
|
| 12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m. |
Brown Bag Lunch with Ron Larsen and Martin Weiss
(5th Floor Large Commons Area, IS Building) |
| 3:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. |
Colloquium Speaker, Dr. Shigeo Sugimoto (University
of Tsukuba in Japan) discusses “Perspectives
on Japanese Digital Libraries Activities and Recent
Activities Related to Metadata” (501 IS
Building) |
| Tuesday, March 23 |
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| 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
Faculty Candidate, Glenn L. Ray, Colloquium "The
Role Of Uml State Machines in Rigorous Object-oriented
Modeling" (Room 405 IS Building) more.. |
| Wednesday, March 24 |
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| 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
Digital Library Colloquium Series speaker Gregory
Crane, Professor of Classics, Tufts University, discusses
“Cultural Informatics: Emergence of a new
field” (Adamson Wing, CMU Campus) with
reception following more.. |
| Thursday, March 25 |
|
| 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
Faculty Candidate, Elisabeth Davies, Colloquium
“Information Practices of Theatre Production
Professionals: Spotlight on Activity Theory”(405
IS Building) more.. |
| Friday, March 26 |
Welcome FastTrack Students Cohort 3 weekend |
| 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. |
Spring Term Telecommunications Program Oral Preliminary
Examination (743 IS Building) |
| 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
Spring Term IST Preliminary Examination (501 IS
Building) |
| 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. |
Welcome coffee for Marianne Winslett (5th Floor
Large Commons Area, IS Building) |
| 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
Laboratory of Education and Research on Security
Assured Information Systems (LERSAIS) speaker Marianne
Winslett, Professor, Department of Computer Science,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, discusses
“An Introduction to Trust Negotiation”
(120 David Lawrence Hall) more.. |
| Saturday, March 27 |
FastTrack Student Cohort 3 weekend |
| March 28 - April 3, 2004 |
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| Sunday, March 28 |
FastTrack Student Cohort 3 weekend finishes |
| Monday, March 29 |
|
| 12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m. |
Brown Bag Lunch with Ron Larsen and Martin Weiss
(5th Floor Large Commons Area, IS Building) |
| 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. |
Laboratory of Education and Research on Security
Assured Information Systems (LERSAIS) speaker Deep
Medhi, Professor, Division of Computer Science & Electrical
Engineering (CSEE), School of Computing and Engineering,
University of Missouri-Kansas City, discusses “Towards
Building a Trusted Framework for Network Routing”
(403 IS Building) more..
|
| 4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. |
SIS Information Session for prospective students
(Location TBD) |
| Tuesday, March 30 |
|
| 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
Faculty Candidate, Daqing He, Colloquium “Facilitating
Information Access Beyond Language Barriers”(405
IS Building) more.. |
| Thursday, April 1 |
|
| 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
Faculty Candidate, Jane Greenberg, Colloquium "Modeling
Metadata Generation At A National Scientific Research
Institute" (405 IS Building) more..
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| 2:00 p. m. - 4:00 p.m. |
DLIS Dissertation Defense, LingLing Lai, "Knowledge
Organization By Information Technology Consultants:
Exploring and Discovering the Organizational Aspect
of Knowledge Management" ( the 1st Floor
Conference Room, IS Building) more..
|
| Friday, April 2 |
Welcome FastTrack Students Cohort 3 weekend |
| 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. |
Welcome Coffee for Elisa Bertino (503 IS Building) |
| 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
School-wide faculty meeting (5th Floor Large Commons
Area, IS Building) |
| 12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m. |
Brown Bag lunch following the School-wide faculty
meeting (5th Floor Large Commons Area, IS Building) |
| 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
Laboratory of Education and Research on Security
Assured Information Systems (LERSAIS) speaker Elisa
Bertino, Research Director, Center for Education and
Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERAIS),
Professor, Department of Computer Science, Purdue
University, discusses “Trust-X: An XML Framework
for Trust Negotiations” (120 David Lawrence
Hall) more.. |
| 1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. |
Dedication of the Virginia Proctor Powell Plaque
(SIS Lobby) |
| 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
BY SPECIAL INVITATION: Carla Hayden (President,
American Library Association) Speech (English Room,
Cathedral of Learning) |
| 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. |
BY SPECIAL INVITATION: Speaker Reception (Croghan-Schenley
Room, Cathedral of Learning) |
| 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. |
SIS International Student Organization (ISO) Gala
Dinner. Bring your traditional food to share with
others, or just give a $2 donation. (5th Floor at
the IS Building) |
| April 4 - 10, 2004 |
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| Monday, April 5 |
|
| 12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m. |
Brown Bag Lunch with Ron Larsen and Martin Weiss
(5th Floor Large Commons Area, IS Building) |
| 12:00 noon |
SIS/PITT Brown Bag Seminar on "A Divide-and-Conquer
Method for Large Bayesian Networks" (403
IS Building) More..
|
| 3:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. |
Colloquium Speaker, Dr. Howard Wactlar (Vice Provost
for Research Computing, Carnegie Mellon University)
discusses “A 10-Year retrospective on the
Informedia Digital Video Library—and what this
tells us about the future” (501 IS Building) |
| Wednesday, April 7 |
|
| 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
LIS Faculty Meeting (501 IS Building) |
| 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
Faulty Candidate, Arthur Wetzel, colloquium "Image
Compression for Interactive Applications with Random
Access Patterns" (Room 403 IS Building) More..
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| Thursday, April 8 |
|
| 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
Faculty Candidate, Thomas Arbuckle, colloquium
"Patterns and Softwary Reeingineering" (Room
512 IS Building) |
| Friday, April 9 |
Welcome FastTrack Students Cohort 3 weekend |
| 9:30 a.m. – 12 noon |
IST Faculty meeting (501 IS Building) |
| 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. |
Welcome coffee for Vijay Atluri (5th Floor Large
Commons Area, IS Building) |
| 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
Laboratory of Education and Research on Security
Assured Information Systems (LERSAIS) speaker Vijay
Atluri, Associate Professor, Department of Management
Science and Information Systems, Research Director,
Center for Information Management, Integration, and
Connectivity, Rutgers University discusses "Unified
Indexing of Spatial Data and Authorizations"
(120 David Lawrence Hall)
More.. |
| April 11 - 17, 2004 |
|
| Monday, April 12 |
RSVP Deadline for April Graduation Event for SIS |
| 12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m. |
Brown Bag Lunch with Ron Larsen and Martin Weiss
(5th Floor Large Commons Area, IS Building) |
| Wednesday, April 14 |
|
| 4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. |
SIS Information Sessions (NEED TO GET INFORMATION
FROM SOMEONE WHERE THIS WILL BE) |
| Friday, April 16 |
Welcome FastTrack Students Cohort 3 weekend |
| 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. |
Welcome Coffee for Ravi Sandhu (5th Floor Large
Commons Area, IS Building) |
| 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
Laboratory of Education and Research on Security
Assured Information Systems (LERSAIS) speaker Ravi
Sandhu, Professor, Department of Information and Software
Engineering, Director, Laboratory for Information
Security Technology, George Mason University, Cofounder,
Chief Scientist, SingleSignOn.net discusses "Usage
Control: A vision for next generation access control
" (120 David Lawrence Hall) more.. |
| 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. |
Digital Library Colloquium Series speaker Gary Marchionini
will discuss “The Open Video Digital Library:
Design and Evaluation Challenges” (Room
403 IS Building) with a reception following (5th Floor
Large Commons Room, IS Building) more.. |
| 4:00 p.m. |
Beta Phi Mu Pi Chapter Annual Award for Scholarly
Excellence deadline.
Electronic submissions are preferred (email to mcfossum@earthlink.net),
or submit to SIS Main Office, 5th Floor.
Complete Award guidelines and criteria are available
at http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~bpm/AwardGuidelines.htm |
| April 18 - 24, 2004 |
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| Monday, April 19 |
|
| 12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m. |
Brown Bag Lunch with Ron Larsen and Martin Weiss
(5th Floor Large Commons Area, IS Building) |
| 12:00 noon |
SIS/PITT Brown Bag Seminar on "TradingCube
- International Trade Knowledge Discovery System
" (501 IS Building) More..
|
| 12:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. |
Dissertation Defense, Molly Sorrows, “Recall
of Landmarks in Information Space” (Room 503
IS Building) More.. |
| 4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. |
SIS Information Session |
| Wednesday, April 21 |
|
| 10:00 a.m. – 12 noon |
LIS Doctoral Studies (501 IS Building) |
| Saturday, April 24 |
Spring Term Ends |
| |
FastTrack’s Cohort 2 graduation dinner |
| Sunday, April 25 |
|
| 9:30 a.m. |
SIS Commencement Breakfast Event (Alumni Hall Auditorium,
followed by a continental breakfast in the Commons
Room, Cathedral of Learning) |
| 1:00 p.m. |
2004 Commencement (Petersen Events Center) |
| April 25 - May 2, 2004 |
|
| Monday, April 26 |
|
| 12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m. |
Brown Bag Lunch with Ron Larsen and Martin Weiss
(5th Floor Large Commons Area, IS Building) |
| Wednesday, April 28 |
Spring Term Grade Rosters Due |
| July 4 - 10, 2004 |
|
| Monday, July 5 |
University Closed for Independence Day |
| Thursday, July 8 |
Fall Deadline for continuing students to register
without a late fee |
| Friday, July 9 |
FastTrack here (July 9-15) |
| Saturday, July 10 |
FastTrack here (July 9-15) |
| July 11 - 17, 2004 |
FastTrack here (July 9-15) |
| July 18 - 24, 2004 |
|
| Friday, July 23 |
|
| 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p. m. |
SIS Summer Graduation Event |
| July 25 - 31, 2004 |
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Wednesday, July 28 |
|
| 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. |
Dissertation Defense for Anotai Srikitja, "Topological
Design of Multiple Virtual Private Networks utilizing
Sink-Tree Paths" (Room 503 IS Building) more
info |
Thursday, July 29 |
|
| 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
Dissertation Defense for Gwyn Chatranon, " Providing
Fairness Through Detection and Preferential Dropping
of High Bandwidth Unresponsive Flows " (Room 503
IS Building) more
info |
| 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. |
Dissertation Defense for Shuju Wu, "An Area-Based
Multicast Approach in IP and Overlay Networks" (Room
503 IS Building) more
info |
| August 1 - 7, 2004 |
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Sunday, August 1 |
Pitt Kennywood Day |
|
Monday, August 2 |
"Peoplesoft" system goes live |
| August 22 - 28, 2004 |
|
| Friday, August 27 |
SIS Fall Term Orientation |
| August 29 - September 4, 2004 |
| Monday, August 30 |
Fall Term (05-1) classes begin, Fall Term
(05-1) registration ends |
Wednesday, September 1 |
|
| 9:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
LIS faculty meeting (Room 501 IS Building) |
| September 5 - 11, 2004 |
|
| Monday, September 6 |
University Closed for Labor Day |
Tuesday, September 7 |
|
| 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
VIPER demonstration (5th Floor Alumni Hall) Please
note that RSVP’s are due by September 1. |
| Wednesday, September 8 |
|
| 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. |
SIS Fall Term Pizza Party (5th Floor Commons
Areas, IS Building) |
| Friday, September 10 |
Fall Term add/drop ends |
| 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. |
New and current Information Science Ph.D. students
and Information Science Ph.D. advisors meeting to
discuss new requirements/orientation. A pizza lunch
will be provided. RSVP to: mstewart@mail.sis.pitt.edu (Room
501 IS Building) |
| September 12 - 18, 2004 |
Tuesday, September 14 |
|
| 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. |
Ten Questions for the Information Profession
(First Floor Commons Room) Chaired by Professor
Emeritus Tony Debons |
| Friday, September 17 |
|
| 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. |
IST Faculty meeting (Room 501 IS Building) |
| 12:40 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. |
Welcome Coffee for Agnieszka Onisko (Large Commons
Room, 5th Floor) |
| 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. |
DIST Fall 2004 Colloquia Speaker, Agnieszka Onisko,
Faculty of Computer Science , Bialystok Technical
University, discusses "How Beneficial can
a Medical Decision Support System be? ” more.. |
| September 19 - 25, 2004 |
| Monday, September 20 |
|
| 12:00 noon |
Denis L. Nkweteyim, Ph.D. Candidate in IST,
describes "An Alternative Implementation of
the Apriori Algorithm" (Room 501 IS Building) more... |
Tuesday, September 21 |
|
| 9:30 a.m. |
Dissertation Defense for Julio Arauz, "802.11
Markov Channel Modeling" (First Floor Conference
Room, IS Building) more.. |
| Thursday, September 23 |
|
| 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
Global Dialogues Series for International Week
2004, Jeffrey Jacobson discusses "Developing & Navigating
Virtual Environments" (2nd Floor IS Building
in the "Virtual Theatre" more.. |
| 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. |
Global Dialogues Series for International Week
2004, Phongsak Prasithsangaree discusses "Seamless
Telecommunications" (1st Floor Conference
Room, IS Building) more.. |
| Friday, September 24 |
|
| 10:40 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. |
Meet the speaker coffee (Large Commons Area,
5th Floor IS Building) |
| 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
Colloquium-Jose Carlos Brustolini discusses "Usable
Security for Wi-Fi Hotspots" (Room 501 IS
Building) more.. |
| 2:30 p.m. |
Colloquium- Gail-Joon Ahn discusses "Secure
Information Sharing within a Collaborative Environment" (Room
501 IS Building) more.. |
| September 26 - October
2, 2004 |
| Monday, September 27 |
|
| 12:00 noon |
Adam Zagorecki, PhD Student, Information Science
Program, describes "Local Distributions in
Bayesian Networks: Knowledge Engineering and Inference" (Room
501 IS Building) more... |
| Wednesday, September 29 |
|
| 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. |
Eli Lilly on compus. more... |
| 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p. m. |
Attention MSIS and MST Students: Recruitment Visit. more... |
| 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. |
SIS Alumni Society (SAS) Meeting (First Floor Conference
Room, IS Building) more... |
Friday, October 1 |
|
| 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
School-wide faculty meeting (Large Commons Room)
Brown Bag Lunch follows |
| October 3 - 9, 2004 |
| Wednesday, October 6 |
Science Fair at Pitt |
| 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
LIS Faculty meeting (Room 501 IS Building) |
Thursday, October 7 |
Science Fair at Pitt |
Friday, October 8 |
Science Fair at Pitt |
| 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. |
IST Faculty meeting (Room 501 IS Building) |
| October 10 - 16, 2004 |
Monday, October 11 |
|
| 12:00 noon |
Colloquium . Dr. Amanda Spink & Dr. Sherry
Koshman discuss "Web Search Trends 1997-2004" (Room
501 IS Building) more.. |
| 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. |
Open House (1 st Floor Lobby & Conference
Room, IS Building) |
Tuesday, October 12 |
|
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. |
Ten Questions for the Information Profession (Fifth
Floor Large Commons Area) Chaired by Professor Emeritus
Tony Debons |
|
Friday, October 15 |
CMU Homecoming weekend |
| 10:40 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. |
Meet the speaker coffee (Large Commons Area,
5th Floor IS Building) |
| 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
Colloquium-Diane Litman discusses "Experiments
with ITSPOKE: An Intelligent Tutoring Spoken
Dialogue System" (Room 501 IS Building) more.. |
| 2:00 p.m. |
Meet the speaker coffee (Room 503 IS Building) |
| 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. |
LERSAIS speaker, Alessandro Acquisti, discusses "Privacy,
Economics, and Immediate Gratification: Theory
and Data" (Room 404 IS Building) more.. |
Saturday, October 16 |
CMU Homecoming weekend |
| October 17 - 23, 2004 |
Wednesday, October 20 |
DLIS Doctoral Prelims |
| Thursday, October 21 |
Spring Term Registration and Add/Drop begins |
| 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. |
LERSAIS speaker, David H. Holtzman, discusses "Information
Assurance" (Room501 IS Building) with light
refreshments following more... |
|
Friday, October 22 |
Pitt's Homecoming weekend |
| 10:40 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. |
Meet the speaker coffee (Large Commons Area,
5th Floor IS Building) |
| 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
Colloquium-Daqing He discusses "Work Hard
On HARD" (Room 501 IS Building) |
Saturday, October 23 |
Pitt's Homecoming weekend. VIPER demonstrations
at the Alumni Tent |
| October 24 - 30, 2004 |
| Monday, October 25 |
|
| 12:00 noon |
Brown Bag Lunch Seminar—Sergey Sosnovsky
(Ph.D. student in IS) discusses “Adaptive
Navigation Support for Individualized Self-Assessment
Quizzes” (Room 501 IS Building) More... |
|
Friday, October 29 |
Fall Deadline for Monitored Withdrawal |
| 10:40 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. |
Meet the speaker coffee (Large Commons Area,
5th Floor IS Building) |
| 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
Colloquium-Roger Flynn discusses "A Simple
Alternative to the Relational Model" (Room
501 IS Building) More... |
| 2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. |
Meet the speaker coffee (Room 503 IS Building) |
2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. |
LERSAIS Security Series speakers Bill Oblitey
and Rose Shumba discuss "Minimizing Computer
Security Threats" (Room 404 IS Building) More... |
| October 31 - November 6, 2004 |
Wednesday, November 3 |
|
| 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
LIS faculty meeting (Room 501 IS Building) |
|
Friday, November 5 |
Fall Deadline for Monitored Withdrawal |
| 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
School-wide faculty meeting (Large Commons Area,
5th Floor IS Building), Brown Bag Lunch follows
in Room 503 IS Building |
| 12:00 noon - 4:00 p.m. |
DLIS Fall Doctoral/Research Colloquium (Large
Commons Area, 5th Floor IS Building) |
| November 7 - 13, 2004 |
Monday, November 8 |
|
| 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
Colloquium-Erkki Sutinen discusses "Jeliot
as a Program Visualization Platform" (Large
Commons Area, 5th Floor IS Building) more... |
|
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. |
Info Session/Open House (Large Commons Area,
5th Floor IS Building) |
|
Tuesday, November 9 |
|
| 10:40 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. |
Meet the speaker coffee and pastries (First
Floor Conference Room, IS Building) |
| 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
Colloquium-Domingo Rodriguez discusses "Wide
Area Large Scale Automate Information Processing:
From Sensor Signals to Knowledge" more... |
| 10:40 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. |
Meet the speaker coffee (Large Commons Area,
5th Floor IS Building) |
| 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
Colloquium-Junseok Hwang discusses "The
Analysis on Grid and P2P Computing Economy, Market
and Transaction Models" (Room 501 IS Building) more... |
| 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. |
Ten Questions for the Information Profession
(Large Commons Area, 5th Floor IS Building) Chaired
by Professor Emeritus Tony Debons |
Wednesday, November 10 |
|
| 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m. |
Brown Bag Lunch/Digital Library Colloquium-Dr.
Steve Griffin discusses "Perspectives on Digital
Libraries Research and Infrastructure" (Large
Commons Area, Room 403 IS Building) more... |
Friday, November 12 |
|
| 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. |
IST Faculty meeting (Room 501 IS Building) |
| 2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. |
Meet the speaker coffee (Room 503 IS Building) |
2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. |
LERSAIS Security Series speaker, Burt Kaliski,
discusses "RFID Privacy: Challenges and Progress" (Room
404 IS Building) more... |
| November 14 - 20, 2004 |
Tuesday, November 16 |
Rhodes Scholars Interviews |
Wednesday, November 17 |
Rhodes Scholars Interviews |
| 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. |
Center for American Music - SIS student Tour &Talk
Location:Center for American Music,
Foster Hall Collection
Stephen Foster Memorial
4301 Forbes Ave. Pittsburgh
Sponsor: Infinity, a forum for SIS grad students interested
in preservation of library & archival materials
Infinity invites all SIS students to meet with Associate Director Kathryn
Miller Haines for an informal tour and talk about preserving American popular
culture and music collections at the Center for American Music. All welcome!
Contact: Infinity Advisory Board,
412-624-7950 , infinity@mail.sis.pitt.edu |
12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. |
Dissertation Defense, Wiklom Teerapabkajorndet
discusses "Radio Resource Management for Multi-rate
Mobile Data Networks" (Room 503 IS Building) more... |
Thursday, November 18 |
|
| 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. |
Dissertation Defense, Chatree Sangpachatanaruk
discusses "Personalized Web: P2P Overlay Architecture
for Personalized Resource Discovery, Access, and
Sharing over the Internet" (Room 503, IS Building) more... |
| 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. |
"Student - Industry Conversation and Networking
Event: Information Technology Leadership" in
partnership with Career Services, Mellon Financial
Corporation, and the Pittsburgh Technology Council
(William Pitt Union, Ballroom)-registration is
necessary but it is complimentary for faculty,
staff, and students in the IT fields. more... |
Friday, November 19 |
|
| 10:40 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. |
Meet the speaker coffee (Large Commons Area,
5th Floor IS Building) |
| 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
Colloquium-Michael Lewis discusses "Human-Robot
Interaction Research at the Usability Lab" (Room
501 IS Building) more... |
| November 21 - 27, 2004 |
| Monday, November 22 |
|
| 12:00 noon |
Brown Bag Seminar, Ratchata Peachavanish discusses "GeoInterpret:
An Ontological Engineering Methodology for Automated
Interpretation of Geospatial Queries" (Room
501, IS Building) more... |
Thursday, November 25 |
University Closed for Thanksgiving |
Friday, November 26 |
University Closed for Thanksgiving |
Saturday, November 27 |
University Closed for Thanksgiving |
| November 28 - December
4, 2004 |
Sunday, November 28 |
University Closed for Thanksgiving |
Monday, November 29 |
|
| 11:00 a.m. |
Brown Bag Seminar presentations by Ellen Detlefsen
and Mike Lewis on their Spring 2005 doctoral seminar
classes (Room 501 IS Building) |
Tuesday, November 30 |
|
| 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
Dissertation Defense, Ratchata Peachavanish,
discussing “GeoInterpret: An Ontological
Engineering Methocology for Automated interpretation
of Geospatial Queries” (Room 503 IS
Building) more... |
Wednesday, December 1 |
|
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
LIS faculty meeting (Room 501 IS Building) |
8:00 p.m. |
Bob Regan on the Rick Sebek TV show |
| Thursday, December 2 |
|
| 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. |
SIS Alumni Society (SAS) meeting (Large Commons
Area, 5th Floor IS Building) |
Friday, December 3 |
|
| 10:00 a.m. – noon |
School-wide faculty meeting (Large Commons Area,
5th Floor IS Building). Brown Bag Lunch follows |
| 12:00 noon – 2:00 p.m. |
DLIS’s Archives & Recordkeeping in
the Digital Era: Lectures and Ruminations. Joseph
Newcomer discusses “A Case Study in Digital
Document Forensics: The “Bush Guard” Memos" (Room
501 IS Building) more... |
| 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. |
DIST Dissertation Defense, Pitikorn Tengtrakul, "Universal
Telecommunications Service of Thailand" (Large
Conference Room, 5th Floor,IS Building) more.. |
| 2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. |
Meet the speaker coffee (the Large Commons Room,
5th Floor, IS Building) |
| 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. |
LERSAIS speaker, Robert Wagne, discusses "The
Reality of Implementing IT Security " (Room
404 IS Building) more.. |
| 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
SIS student Tour/Talk Hunt Institute for Botanical
Documentation more... |
| 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. |
SIS Graduation Recognition Ceremony & Reception
for December 2004 Graduates (Connelly Ballroom,
Alumni Hall) |
| December 5 - 11, 2004 |
| Monday, December 6 |
|
| 12:00 noon |
Brown Bag Seminar, Professors Mark D. Gross and
Ellen Yi-Luen Do, School of Architecture, Carnegie
Mellon University, discuss "Design and Human-Computer
Interaction" (Room 501, IS Building) more.. |
Friday, December 10 |
|
| 9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. |
IST Faculty meeting (Room 501 IS Building) |
| 2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. |
Meet the speaker coffee (Room 503, IS Building) |
| 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. |
LERSAIS speaker, Trent Jaeger, discusses "Linux
Security Analysis Project" (Room 404 IS Building) more... |
| December 12 - 18, 2004 |
| Monday, December 13 |
|
| 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
Dissertation Defense, Marut Buranarach discusses “A
Framework for the Organization and Discovery of
Information Resources in a WWW Environment Using
Association, Classification and Deduction” (Room
503 IS Building) more... |
| 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m. |
Brown Bag Seminar, Charles Grindle, Information
Science PhD Student, discusses "Terrain-Based
Information Fusion and Inference" (Room 501,
IS Building) more.. |
| 3:00 p.m. |
Center for National Preparedness Seminar. Dr.
Michael Allswede discusses “The Pittsburgh
Matrix Project” (Alumni Hall with a
reception following) more... |
| 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. |
Info. Session/Open House (Large Commons Area,
5th Floor IS Building) |
Tuesday, December 14 |
|
| 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. |
Ten Questions for the Information Profession
(Large Commons Area, 5th Floor IS Building) Chaired
by Professor Emeritus Tony Debons |
| Thursday, December 16 |
|
| 12:00 noon -1:00 p.m. |
A showing of the Digital Future: Blogging, from
C-SPAN, featuring David Weinberger, Research Fellow,
Harvard Law School and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
(Room 503, IS Building). |
Friday, December 17 |
|
| 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
Dissertation Defense, Shuo Liu discusses “Geoprocessing
Optimization in Grid Systems” (1st floor
conference room, IS Building) more.. |
| 5:00 p.m. |
DLIS Ph.D. Holiday Party (Cocktail Lounge, Holiday
Inn Select, University Center, 100 Lytton Avenue)
Drinks and food will be available for purchase. |
Saturday, December 18 |
Fall Term (05-1) Ends |
| December
19 - 25, 2004 |
| Wednesday, December 22 |
Fall Term (05-1) Grades Due |
| Friday, December 24 |
University Closed for the Holidays (December 24-January
4) |
| Saturday, December 25 |
University Closed |
| December 26, 2004 - January 3, 2005 |
University Closed |
