Director of the Institute of Multimedia Literacy, USC [Keynoter] (more…)

Transliteracies Leader; Director of Transcriptions Project; Chair and Professor of the English Department, UC Santa Barbara (more…)

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This project focuses on bridging from traditional notions of literacy to audiovisual or multimedia (visual, audio) “literacy.” Its focus is on the audiovisual and on multimedia.

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Like other recent “store your whole life digitally” initiatives (cf., Gordon Bell et al., MyLifeBits), the UK-based Memories for Life proposal foresees the need not just to store vast amounts of personal digital information but also to search and model such information. One aspect of the proposal bears on Transliteracies. Memories for Life envisions developing “detailed models of an individual’s abilities, skills, and preference by analysing his or her digital memories” and then using these models to “optimize computer systems for individuals.” For example, “a short-term challenge could be to develop a model of a user’s literacy level by analysing examples of what he or she reads and writes, and linguistically simplify web pages based on this model; this would help the 20% of the UK population with poor literacy.”

Executive Director of the MIT Media Laboratory [Keynoter] (more…)

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University (more…)

Professor Emeritus of Political Science, School of Information Management and Systems, UC Berkeley (more…)

Associate Professor and Chair, Division of Critical Studies, USC School of Cinema-Television Founder of Vectors journal at the USC Institute for Multimedia Literacy (more…)

Professor of English and American Literature, Harvard University (more…)

Director of the Organizational Dynamics Program and Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Oklahoma, Tulsa Graduate College (more…)

Group Manager of Microsoft Next Media Research Group (more…)