Tag Archives: School of Informatics

Ang Lecture

By alex | Published: 9/29/2005
On Monday (10/3), Ang Peng Hwa, Dean of the School of Communication and Information at NTU, will be giving a talk entitled “The UN Working Group on Internet Governance: An Insider’s Perspective.” (Yes, a practice run for his keynote at IR 6.0, I’m sure.) The talk is at 2pm in 545 O’Brian. I would encourage […]
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Ran the gauntlet

By alex | Published: 7/27/2005
Kudos go to one of my advisees, Jack Rosenberry, who today successfully defended his dissertation, entitled (for now!) The Fourth Estate in the Networked Age: How Online Journalism Can Promote Civic Discourse. Despite some slight videochat irregularities (one of the committee members was distant), the defense went pretty smoothly. Jack has already presented a few […]
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Faculty Opening

By alex | Published: 7/14/2005
The School of Informatics at the University at Buffalo will be making a couple (a few?) faculty hires in the coming year. The first of these to come down the pike is for and assistant or associate professor (tenure or tenure track) with both an IT background and a library background. The listing appears after […]
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Leaving the nest, sorta

By alex | Published: 4/25/2005
Congratulations go to Kara Kerwin, who this afternoon successfully defended her masters thesis, Hyperlink Use on Personal Weblogs. I’m sure she will post her thesis once it is submitted and official. She conducted IM focus groups and looked at the motivations for creating hyperlinks on personal weblogs. We will (once she gets through the red […]
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