The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS), a membership association for organisations that create, organise and facilitate access to authoritative information, has announced that registrations are still being accepted for the 2011 NFAIS Annual Conference, Taming the Information Tsunami: The New World of Discovery? The event is scheduled for February 27 - March 1, 2011 at the Hyatt at the Bellevue in Philadelphia, PA.
The programme is expected to bring together publishers, librarians, and technology developers representing all market sectors from around the globe. The aim is to discuss how they are responding to the daunting challenge of identifying, acquiring, processing, transmitting, and storing incredible amounts of digital content across all media and across a growing amount of foreign languages - a challenge that will continue into the foreseeable future as the volume of information continues to escalate.
Practical approaches currently being implemented will be discussed along with emerging technologies that hold promise for the future such as augmented reality, machine thinking, semantic search, cloud computing, automated translations and more. The final programme is available online at: http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/292-program-2011-nfais-annual-conference.
Highlights include a thought-provoking look at the complex problems and entrepreneurial opportunities offered by today's information explosion from Dan Gillmor, author of We the Media; survey results from IDC on the sources of today's digital information explosion and the expected information growth rates in the coming years; and a look at the impact of digital technology on how we think and how we process and use information from Steven Berlin Johnson, Contributing Editor, Wired magazine.
Additionally, a panel of librarians and researchers will address how they are adapting to information overload - the tools they use, what works, what doesn't, and how their jobs have changed as a result. Case studies from the Library of Congress, Nature Publishing, and the Journal of Visual Experiments on coverage of content across all media and diverse languages to ensure the relevance and comprehensiveness of their products and services will also be presented.
The Miles Conrad Memorial Lecture will be given by award recipient Dr. Ben Shneiderman, Professor and Founding Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, University of Maryland.
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