sims-bcis-hiit seminar on information society research

The SIMS-BCIS-HIIT Seminar on Information Society Research will be held on 23.10.2003 at 9 AM - 5 PM in Room #110, South Hall, University of California at Berkeley.

The seminar is co-sponsored by

The School of Information Management and Systems

The Berkeley Center for the Information Society

Helsinki Institute for Information Technology

The seminar is intended to give a snapshot on the ongoing research collaboration between the sponsoring institutions and its planned future directions.

The Futures Committee of the Finnish Parliament will join the morning sessions of the workshop.

preliminary seminar programme

Morning session: Latest Perspectives on the Information Society and Economy

9-9:10 Welcome notes
9:10-9:40 Hal Varian: The Latest Views of the Information Economy
9:40-10 Discussion

10-10:15 Coffee break

10:15-10:25 Martti Mäntylä: Introduction to the SIMS-BCIS-HIIT cooperation
10:25-10:55 Annalee Saxenian: The Latest Developments in Silicon Valley: Strengths and Challenges
10:55-11:10 Discussion
11:10-11:40 Pekka Himanen: A New Model for Social Innovation in the Information Society: Social open source
11:40-12 Discussion

12-1:30 Lunch at UCB Faculty Club

Afternoon session: New HIIT-SIMS Research Initiatives: Search-ina-Box and Mobile Content Communities

1:30-2:15 Henry Tirri: Next generation information retrieval
2:15-2:45 Jukka Kemppinen: Challenges in digital economy research
2:45-3 Discussion

3-3:30 Coffee break

3:30-4:15 Marko Turpeinen: Introduction to the Mobile Content Communities (MC2) Project
4:15-4:45 Marc Davis: MC2 and Garage Cinema
4:45-5 Discussion
5 Adjourn