A joint Meeting with the BCS North London Branch
After five millennia, are traditional 'libraries' heading for the dusty
storeroom as loose agglomerations of on-line knowledge are searched by
increasingly sophisticated methods? As search takes on the editorial
role, will it come to be the authour ?
In a session introduced by Dr Andy McFarlane we ask:
What does the history, current science and practice of search tell us?
Professor Stephen Robertson will discuss the history of information
retrieval and how we arrived at the current state of search technology.
Tamar Sadeh will discuss current searching practices in the high energy
physics community.
We then start to look to the future, asking:
Just how different might the world be when the Google generation are
running it ?
Ian Rowlands will discuss eveidence from his research of this demographic
to round off the evening.
Dr Andy McFarlane is Senior Lecturer, Department of Information Science,
City University. Andy is chair of the Information Retrieval Specialist
Group and co-Director of the Centre for Interactive Systems Research, City
University
Professor Stephen Robertson is now a senior researcher with Microsoft
Research, Cambridge, but retains a part-time position in the Department of
Information Science at City University, where he was full-time for many
years.
Tamar Sadeh is Director of Marketing of Ex Libris Group, a leading
provider of library automation solutions, and a Doctoral student at the
Department of Information Science.
Ian Rowlands is a Reader in UCL Centre for Publishing, part of the
Department of Information Studies at University College London.
There will be an opportunity for Questions after each section.
Tea and biscuits from 6pm for a 6:30pm start, with networking and
refreshments from 8pm.
Registration will be via the North London Branch web site (available
shortly): http://www.nlondon.bcs.org/
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