The 2007 CSNA meeting will occur at UIUC in June. Consider attending
and forwarding information on the conference to potentially interested
colleagues. Registration is now open.
This newsletter will be shorter than usual. In the summer, after the
CSNA conference, we'll report on the conference and other happenings.
If you have any information that you would like to distribute to CSNA
through this newsletter, please let me know. Thanks.
Registration for the 2007 CSNA meeting is now open. Links to
registration, transportation and housing information are available
from the main conference web page at this URL:
We're in the process of getting preliminary schedule, and a list of
contributed abstracts online. I'm also catching up with presenters on
the scheduling of their talk. If any of you who are presenting need an
official invitation from me sooner (as opposed to an informal email
from me in the next couple days), please let me know -- I realize that
for some of you it will facilitate your travel funding.
Let me know if you have any troubles with the registration system or
information on the website. And please do encourage your colleagues to
join you in attending this year.
Dave Dubin
The Classification Society of North America will hold its annual
meeting on June 7 - 10, 2007, at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign in Urbana, Illinois. The meeting is sponsored by the
National Center for Supercomputing Applications, the UIUC College of
Education and the Graduate School of Library and Information
Science. The organizers of the meeting are David Dubin and Carolyn
Anderson.
CSNA 2007 will follow directly after the 2007 Digital Humanities
meeting, and our meetings will intersect on June 7 with a Joint
Workshop on Data Analysis and Research in the Humanities. DH 2007 and
CSNA 2007 will have a mutual registration agreement, by which
participants in either meeting will be able to attend sessions at
both. So plan to come to Urbana early for the start of the DH meeting
on June 2nd. Persons wishing to participate in planning the Humanities
Data Analysis Workshop should contact David Dubin
(ddubin at uiuc dot edu). Further information on the Digital Humanities
meeting can be found at
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dh2007/.
Our keynote speaker will be Michael J. Kurtz of the Smithsonian
Astrophysical Observatory. Dr. Kurtz will be speaking on The
Astronomical Information Network.
*The Pascal Challenge on Computer-Assisted Stemmatology* evaluates
methods for reconstructing the family-tree of a group of related
documents. Such a family-tree corresponds to a) a clustering
hierarchy, where joined subgroups make subtrees; b) a causal/graphical
model of interdocument dependencies;
c) a network of information flow among the documents; d) a
phylogenetic tree; etc. More information can be found on the web-page
of the Challenge:
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/teemu.roos/casc/
Current Trends in Computer Science
Current Trends in Computer Science (Pattern Recognition track):
The Mexican Computer Science Society organizes a yearly meeting
gathering researchers, students, educators and industry leaders for a
week. This meeting is a multiconference with many workshops,
tutorials, international conferences and student activities. The
international conference Current Trends in Computer Science is a
multi-track conference around a hot topic for the Mexican research
community. This year the trend/topic is information processing and
retrieval from three points of view. The first track is about
classical information retrieval and the web with standard methods. The
second track focuses on data analysis and management, that is, the
frontier between pattern recognition and databases, where large-scale
applications need to handle and retrieve multimedia and complex
objects. The third track focuses on the user-driven software systems
motivated by the above problems. See
http://enc.smcc.org.mx/.
Recursos Bibliotecarios
In Spain recently we have created a new page Web on resources
librarians, of archives and information centers, the name is RECBIB
- Resources Librarians
(Recursos Bibliotecarios).
The WWW and ascii version of the CSNA Newsletter is made available as
a service of the Classification Society of North America (web site:
http://www.classification-society.org/csna/csna.html ).
Information on becoming a member of
CSNA is available at the CSNA website.
CSNA Webmaster:
Dave Dubin, ddubin at uiuc dot edu
Newsletter editor:
Mike Larsen, larsen at iastate dot edu
