CRITO Hours

The CRITO Hour Speaker Series has been quite active this year with informal luncheon presentations being provided by researchers in CRITO, on the UCI campus and visiting academics. The following is a list of speakers and a description of their talks:

February 8, 2007
Dave Newman, Research Scientist in the Department of Computer Science, UC Irvine, presented “What can a computer “learn” about massive collections of text documents?”

February 15, 2007
Mark Warschauer, Associate Professor in the Dept of Education and the Dept of Informatics at UC, Irvine., and Associate Director for Research of the Ada Byron Research Center for Diversity in Computing & IT, gave a talk titled “Laptops and Literacy: Can One-to-One Computing Programs Transform How Children Learn?”

February 22, 2007
Gayna Williams, Director for Product Customer Partner Experience at Microsoft, spoke about “Making Users Matter in the Development of Software Experiences”

March 1, 2007
Marty Menard, Director of the Platform Capability Group, of Intel’s Information Technology (IT) group, spoke about “Intel's 'One Generation Ahead’ Program: Facilitating Customer Information Exchange”

April 4, 2007
Renée Sieber, Associate Professor at McGill University, Canada, presented “Advanced Information and Communications Technologies for Community Economic Development”

April 11, 2007
Oliver Günther, Professor and Director of the Institute of Information Systems at Humboldt-Universität in Berlin, gave a presentation titled “RFID in Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management: Lessons from Six Case Studies”

May 2, 2007
Joel West, Associate Professor of Innovation & Entrepreneurship at San Jose State University introduced the topic “Entering a Mature Industry Through Innovation: Apple's iPhone Strategy”

May 23, 2007
Paul Gray, Professor Emeritus of Information Science at Claremont Graduate University and visiting professor at UC Irvine, gave insights into “The Reviewing Process”

For more information about the presentations and the speakers, please visit The CRITO Hour page on our website.