DHCS 2009: Call for participation

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Critical Computing:
Models and Challenges for Interdisciplinary Collaboration
2009 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science

November 14-16, 2009
            
Illinois Institute of Technology
McCormick-Tribune Campus Center, 3201 S State St.
Hermann Hall, 3241 S Federal St.
Chicago, IL
                
http://dhcs.iit.edu

The annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) brings together researchers and scholars in the humanities and computer science to advance interdisciplinary collaborations between the digital humanists and computer scientists, advancing the area as a field of intellectual inquiry and identifying new directions and perspectives for future research.

Such collaborative research poses both problems and opportunities:

• How can computation provide new critical and interpretative tools for humanists? 
• How can humanities scholarship help us understand the meaning and import of computational analysis of human artifacts?

Program:      http://dhcs.iit.edu/program.html
Registration: http://dhcs.iit.edu/registration.html

INVITED SPEAKERS:

• Dr. Stephen Wolfram, founder and chief executive officer of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, and author of A New Kind of Science.
• Vasant Honavar, professor of Computer Science at Iowa State University, and founding director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory and the Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning & Discovery. 
• Roger B. Dannenberg, Associate Research Professor of Computer Science and Art at Carnegie Mellon University, and fellow of the Studio for Creative Inquiry.

BIRDS-OF-A-FEATHER WORKSHOP SESSIONS:

November 14, 2009: 1:00-5:00
Location: Illinois Institute of Technology
      McCormick Tribune Campus Center
      3201 S. State St., Chicago, IL 60616

As we did last year, we invite participants to organize workshops and informal, "birds-of-a-feather" workshop meetings on the day before the colloquium's regular paper and poster sessions.  We envision the pre-colloquium being used for seminars and/or tutorials on topics that will feature in the colloquium's paper presentations as well as more informal exchanges on topics of common interest (e.g. "digital archaeology").  You may wish to consult last year's BoF schedule:
   

for some examples.

If you are interested in organizing a session, please contact Mark Olsen (markymaypo57 at gmail dawt com) with a title, brief synopsis, and preferred time slot which we will post on the colloquium site.

TRAVEL GRANTS FOR STUDENTS:

We are very pleased to be able to offer $500 towards travel expenses to three graduate students who wish to participate in DHCS 2009. Please see http://dhcs.iit.edu/student_travel.html for more information.

SPONSORED BY:
  * Illinois Institute of Technology
  * The University of Chicago
  * Northwestern University

MORE INFORMATION:

For more information or to register, visit http://dhcs.iit.edu or email dhcs2009 at iit dot edu.