| Symposium: The Computer: The Once and Future Medium for the Social Sciences and the Humanities York University, Vanier College Room 135 May 30, 2006 8:30 a.m.
 SymposiumProgramme.pdf
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| Greeting |
8:30-8:45 |
Greeting |
| Session One: |
8:45-10:00 |
Keynote Speaker:
Chris L. Barrett, Virginia Tech
"Large Scale, Detailed Simulation of Epidemics" |
| Session Two: |
10:00-11:30 |
Topic: VR, AR and Collaborative Environments
Presenter One: Steven Feiner, Columbia University
"Mixed and Augmented Reality for Visualizing Historic and Archaeological Sites." |
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Presenter Two: Diane Favro, UCLA
"Wagging the Dog in the Digital age: the impact of computer modeling on architectural history." |
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Presenter Three: Jon Borwein, Dalhousie University
"Advanced Collaborative Environments." |
| Coffee Break |
11:30-11:45 |
Coffee Break |
| Session Three: |
11:45-13:00 |
Topic: Temporal and Historical G.I.S.
Presenter One: Donna Peuquet, Pennsylvania State University"
"Seeing Events in all their Complexity: Temporal GIS and the Representation of Space-Time Data." |
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Presenter Two: Ian Gregory, Queens University Belfast
"Analysing infant mortality over space and time using national historical
GISs." |
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Presenter Three: Anne Knowles, Middlebury College
"Acts of Translation: GIS In Pursuit of History." |
| Lunch |
13:00-14:00 |
Lunch |
| Session Four: |
14:00-15:15 |
Keynote:
Keynote Speaker: Robert Lempert, RAND Corporation
"Embracing Multiple Views of the Future: New Computational
Tools for Longer-Term Policy Analysis."
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| Session Five: |
15:30-16:45 |
Homo In Silico
Presenter One: Don Sanders, Institute for the Visualization of
History
The Benefit of 3D Computer Graphics for the Historical Sciences |
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Presenter Two: Paul Thagard, University of Waterloo
"Emotional Consensus in Group Decision Making : A Computer Model." |
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Presenter Three: J. Stephen Lansing, Santa Fe Institute and University of Arizona
"Coupled social/ecological models: where do we begin?" |
| Coffee Break |
16:45-17:00 |
Coffee Break |
| Session Six: |
17:00-18:15 |
Humanities and Computing
Presenter One: Ray Siemens, University of Victoria
"Modelling the Activity of the
Humanist." |
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Presenter Two: Geoffrey Rockwell, McMaster University
"Is there a Tool in this Method?: The Practice of Collaborative Questioning in Humanities Computing." |
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Presenter Three: Bertrand Gervais, UQAM
"Mapping Literature's Path on the Web" |
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Presenter(s) Four: Pat Clements, University of Alberta, Isobel Grundy, University of Alberta and Susan Brown, University of Guelph
"Humanities Computing: ORLANDO PROJECT." |
| Evening Reception and Keynote |
18:30-21:00 |
Evening Reception:
Keynote Speaker: Joshua Epstein, Brookings Institute
"Generative Social Science." |
