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Sara Fine Institute and the Digital Libraries Colloquium
Series present Cyberscholarship colloquium
 The Sara Fine Institute and the Digital Libraries Colloquium
Series are proud to host a December colloquium featuring
Dr. William Arms. The lecture, entitled “Cyberscholarship: Supercomputing
Meets Digital Libraries, with the Web as a Case Study,” will
take place on Friday, December 7, 2007 from 12:00 p.m.
to 1:30 p.m. in Room 404 of the School of Information
Sciences (135 North Bellefield Avenue).
Cyberscholarship is a new methodology of research that
uses computers as an instrument for the researcher, discovering
latent patterns and relationships that the researcher
would never find manually. However, putting this
method into practice proves to be incredibly difficult. Using
the Cornell Web Lab as a case study, Dr. Arms will address
the various challenges, specifically, how social scientists
can do effective research using this methodology without
becoming experts in supercomputing.
Dr. Arms, a Professor at Cornell University’s
Department of Computer Science, was the first director
of Cornell’s Information Science program. His
research focuses on web information systems, digital
libraries and electronic publishing. As a member
of the Web Laboratory project, he was a leader of the
NSF’s program to build a large scale digital library
for science education (NSDL). Currently, he is
the chair of the Cornell University Library Board. This
year, he and Ronald Larsen, SIS Dean, are co-chairs of
a NSF study on Cyberscholarship.
Prior to working at Cornell, he was Vice President of
Academic Services at Carnegie Mellon University, where
he orchestrated the Andrew Project in campus-wide networking. He
has also held appointments at Dartmouth College and the
British Open University in the past.
Dr. Arms has a B.A. in mathematics from Oxford University,
a M.Sc. in economics from the London School of Economics,
and a Ph.D. in operational research from the University
of Sussex.
This lecture is being presented by the Sara Fine Institute
and the Digital Libraries Colloquium Series. The
Institute is dedicated to examining the ways technology
impacts interpersonal communications and relationships
with family, friends, professional colleagues, governing
bodies, health care providers, and educational institutions.
SFI Faculty Affiliates conduct research on social, political,
ethical, medical, technical, and educational issues via
innovative research projects and campus-community partnerships.
Since its founding, the SFI has promoted multidisciplinary
studies of users of online information, digital information
production and use, and the impact of the information
technology on scholarly publishing. Presented
since 2001, the Digital Libraries Colloquium Series offers
international experts in the emerging field of digital
libraries. Previous presenters in the Series includes
Michael Lesk, Division Director, Information and Intelligent
Systems, National Science Foundation; Alan F. Smeaton,
Professor of Computing, Dean of the Faculty of Computing
and Mathematical Sciences, Director of the Centre for
Digital Video Dublin City University, Ireland; Stephen
Griffin, Program Director in the Division of Information
and Intelligent Systems, National Science Foundation;
Zhendong Niu, Deputy Dean & Professor at the Software
School at Beijing Institute of Technology; and Nancy
Davenport, Director, Council of Library and Information
Resources (CLIR). |
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