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Online archive of Cohen AIDS literature now in beta version
(Dec 2008) In conjunction with World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, SI and the U-M Library will launch a searchable, online trove of AIDS-related literature gathered by a prominent science writer.

MacKie-Mason-edited volume on digital library economics published
(Oct 2008) U-M's Scholarly Publishing Office has issued a collection of essays that grew from a research project and conference on the economics of digital libraries. Professor Jeff MacKie-Mason is co-editor of the volume.

Alumna Elisabeth Jones wins Paul Evan Peters Fellowship
(Oct 2008) Elisabeth Jones (MSI '07) has been honored with the 2008 Paul Evan Peters Fellowship from the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). Jones joins fellow alumni Christopher (Cal) Lee (MSI '99, Ph.D. '05) and Phillip M. Edwards (MSI '03) in being so honored.

1,000 Pitches contest aims to bring in new ideas
(Oct 2008) A competition now under way at the University of Michigan aims to gather 1,000 pitches for new businesses, inventions, and nonprofit organizations by October 26. The award for winning entries in each of seven categories is $1,000.

Open access champion to address privatization of knowledge at Oct 22 JSB Symposium
(Sep 2008) Brewster Kahle, a champion of open access to all knowledge, will consider the impact of the consolidation and privatization of knowledge sources when he gives the keynote talk at the John Seely Brown Symposium on Society and Technology, 3:00 p.m., October 22, 2008.

U-M and SI launch new Information Age major: Informatics
(Sep 2008) University of Michigan undergraduates have a new major on their list of choices, one highly relevant in the age of Google and Web 2.0: informatics.

SI's Krause and Yakel win SAA's Posner Award
(Sep 2008) Magia Ghetu Krause, a PhD candidate at SI, and Elizabeth Yakel, associate professor of information, have won the Society of American Archivists' 2008 Fellows' Ernst Posner Award for their essay, "Interaction in Virtual Archives: The Polar Bear Expedition Digital Collections Next Generation Finding Aid."

Bluffing could be common in prediction markets, study shows
(Jul 2008) A new mathematical model suggests that bluffing in prediction markets is a profitable strategy more often than previously thought.

Mark Ackerman's SocialWorlds research group: Melding social science and technology
(Apr 2008) Though he did his graduate work in computer science and information technologies, Mark Ackerman's undergraduate degree was in "history in the social sciences," and both the technology and the social science influences are clear in the work of his SocialWorlds research group.

SI study finds Yahoo Answers users seek advice, opinion, as well as expertise
(Apr 2008) One of the first large-scale analyses of how people share knowledge on Yahoo Answers has found that participants use the site to exchange advice and opinions, in addition to technical expertise.

SI Research and Innovation Office adds wiki, online grants database
(Apr 2008) SI's Research and Innovation Office has two new resources online for faculty and students involved in research: a research wiki and a database of active research grants.

Clarkson and Frost win grant to develop digital museums with tribal communities
(Apr 2008) Two SI researchers have won a $200,000 NSF grant to work with American Indian communities developing "digital tribal museums" while also bringing new educational opportunities in computer science and information to reservations.

SI team takes second in CHI 2008 Student Design Competition
(Apr 2008) An SI team's system that used social networking tools to encourage volunteerism finished second in the CHI 2008 Conference Student Design Competition.

Dean Martha Pollack paper named highly influential by professional group
(Apr 2008) A paper coauthored by SI Dean Martha E. Pollack has won a 2008 influential paper award from the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS).

Margaret Hedstrom featured in New York Times story on digital preservation
(Apr 2008) Associate Professor Margaret Hedstrom is featured in an article on digital preservation in the April 9, 2008 New York Times.

SI student projects displayed at 2008 expoSItion
(Mar 2008) So many student projects were on display at the 2008 expoSItion that some groups had to set up in the hallway outside. Winning project submissions have been announced.

Dean Pollack delivers upbeat State of the School address
(Mar 2008) "The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades!" That's the message Dean Martha Pollack closed with in her first "State of the School" talk on March 12th.

iSchool at Michigan does i-Conference at UCLA
(Mar 2008) Having hosted the previous i-conference in late 2006, U-M's School of Information was all over the 2008 i-conference. Literally.

Newman is latest distinguished addition to SI's HCI faculty
(Mar 2008) SI's newest faculty member, Assistant Professor Mark Newman, comes to SI with a research career at the legendary PARC, a Ph.D. in computer science from UC-Berkeley, and a passion for making ubiquitous computing, well, ubiquitous.

Internet pioneer Atkins receives Paul Evan Peters Award
(Feb 2008) Professor Daniel E. Atkins, whose work has made it easier for scientists to collaborate online across the globe, has been named the 2008 recipient of the Paul Evan Peters Award, joining Tim Berners-Lee, Vinton Cerf, Brewster Kahle, and Paul Ginsparg in being so honored.

Projects show SI's HCI strengths
(Feb 2008) HCI projects at SI are many. Recent examples range from an AJAX interface for quickly browsing comments at SlashDot to visualizations of paths students take through the SI curriculum.

MBooks project reaches one-million-volume milestone
(Feb 2008) The Michigan Digitization Project collaboration between U-M and Google has thus far transcribed 16 miles of books into 42 terabytes of data. The result: U-M now has one million volumes online.

Computational Linguistics Olympiad comes to Ann Arbor
(Feb 2008) On February 5th local high school students tested their wits by solving language problems as part of the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO). SI faculty played key roles.

Ph.D. student Munson wins Yahoo! Key Technical Challenges grant
(Feb 2008) SI doctoral student Sean Munson has been awarded a Key Technical Challenges (KTC) grant from Yahoo!. The award will mean $5,000 and a trip to a summer Yahoo! workshop.

Hedstrom recognized as a "Digital Preservation Pioneer" by Library of Congress
(Feb 2008) We always knew it; now the Library of Congress has confirmed it. Associate Professor Margaret Hedstrom is profiled as a Digital Preservation Pioneer on the LoC Web site.

SI congratulates three new Ph.D.s.
(Jan 2008) Matt Bietz, Jun Zhang, and Airong Luo are SI's newest Ph.D.s.

Rieh grant part of project to transform the IPL
(Jan 2008) Assistant Professor Soo Young Rieh has been awarded $75,000 as part of a larger, three-year grant for "Transforming the Internet Public Library," or IPL.

SI students show off cool network visualization projects
(Jan 2008) Disease transmission. Free-riding on file-sharing networks. Micro-loan repayment in developing economies. The viral spread of FaceBook applications. SI students tackle all of these -- and more -- using networks analysis tools. The results are striking.

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