Marie Radford discusses her research in the new field of Virtual Library Services. She talks about the way online reference materials have changed researching, how new issues have arisen, and the possible ways of solving these issues. Dr. Radford is Associate Professor & Library Consultant at...
Grace Agnew discusses the basics of digital rights management and how it affects consumers and rights holders. Grace Agnew is the Associate University Librarian for Digital Library Systems at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She is the architect and principal investigator for the...
The Immense data collections now being built in many fields are changing the way science happens, which may improve the public's understanding of research and encourage more young people to pursue careers in science, according to Michael Lesk, professor of library and information science and...
Nitin Madnani speaking at the School of Communication and Information (SC&I) at Rutgers University on 11/9/11 Abstract: It may be obvious that building a good statistical machine translation (SMT) system requires a lot of bilingual training data. However, what may not be obvious is that the...
Sharad Goel speaking at the School of Communication and Information (SC&I) at Rutgers University on 11/16/11 Abstract: With the increasing availability of network and behavioral data---from what we buy, to where we travel, to whom we know---we are now able to observe and quantify social processes...
