Please join us and alumni from the University of Minnesota College of
Science and Engineering (formerly the Institute of Technology) for the
Third Annual Bay Area Alumni Gathering hosted by the College of Science
and Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Meet Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Head Vipin
Kumar, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Head
David Lilja, and local University of Minnesota alumni for an evening of
socializing and networking. The museum will be open and docents will be
available to guide tours. Complimentary hors d'oeuvres will be served.
Cash bar.
Where: Computer History Museum
Mountain View, CA
When: Thursday, August 12, 2010
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Program:
-6 PM Hors d'oeuvres Reception
-7 PM Lecture
About:
-Lecture: Altruism, Cooperation, and Destructiveness on the Social Web
Join computer science and engineering professor and social web expert John Riedl for an engaging presentation on how online communities are changing communication from the one-to-many model to the cooperative creation of shared resources.
Many online communities are emerging that, like Wikipedia, bring people together to build valuable long-lasting artifacts in social production communities. The emergent behavior of millions of people working together with only the power structures they can evolve by themselves is remarkable. This presentation will seek to understand the causes of the successes and failures of these communities by looking at examples of both. What is the nature of people's participation in peer production systems? What are their motives? In what ways is their behavior destructive instead of constructive? How can computer agents interact with the humans to encourage the positive contributions, and damp down the negative? The lecture will explore these questions in the context of a wide variety of the most successful social web systems.
Speaker
John Riedl has been a professor in the University of Minnesota Department of Computer Science and Engineering since 1990. Professor Riedl's research is in intelligent user interfaces for the social web. His GroupLens research group seeks to develop tools that make our collaborations on the social web even more pleasant and fruitful. GroupLens has a strong tradition of developing recommender systems that help people find the information, products, and other relationships they seek. In 2009, Professor Riedl was elected Fellow of the ACM, and won Best Paper awards at the IUI and WikiSym Conferences. In 2008, he was named an ACM Distinguished Scientist. In 2006, he was named a Senior Member of the IEEE and won a Best Paper Award at the Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) Conference. Riedl has also received the MIT Sloan School Award for Innovation in E-Commerce, and the George Taylor Award for Exceptional Contributions to Teaching.
Riedl received his B.S. degree in mathematics from Notre Dame University and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Purdue University.
Cost
This event is being made available at no cost to UMAA—SFBAC alumni except for beverages purchased at the cash bar during the reception.
RSVP: Please RSVP online no later than Thursday, August 5, 2010.
For more information about this event, please contact event chair Becky Kiefer by e-mail at kiefe069@umn.edu or by phone at 612-625-3767. Also, please visit the following sites:
Third Annual Bay Area Alumni Gathering
U of MN Computer Science and Engineering
U of MN Electrical and Computer and Engineering
Computer History Museum
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