Professor and Dean Emeritus Mike Eisenberg has beenawarded the 2006 Distinguished Service Award for Outstanding Service to Schools from The American Association of School Librarians and Baker and Taylor.
Mike continues to serve the entire University of Washington community. He was appointed as the University’s Data Steward and Chair of the University's new Data Management Committee. The DMC is charged with designation and governance of data, metadata, and the information base of business processes at the UW. The scope of the DMC is inclusive of all three campuses, remote sites, the hospitals and all academic support units.
Professor Raya Fidel, along with PhD students Kari Holland and Kris Unsworth, representing the Fully Mobile City Government (mCity) project and Senior Lecturer Mike Crandall with the Communities Connect network (CCN) went to Olympia to participate in the “Faculty Serving Washington” event sponsored by the State Council of Faculty Representatives. This annual event is an opportunity for select faculty from Washington state universities to present projects that directly benefit the state to the legislature. Two of the eight projects from the University of Washington were from the Information School.
The mCity project investigates how fieldworkers for Seattle Public Utilities are using fully mobile wireless technology in their work. The poster presentation gave a brief outline of the study site, the impacts and projected outcomes for the project as well as preliminary results.
Communities Connect is a Statewide network focused on supporting and advancing community development in Washington State through the use of community technology. Mike’s presentation introduced the concept of community technology, highlighted CCN initiatives and gave examples of how the program aligns with Statewide priorities.
Associate Research Professor William Jones, recently received the iSchool’s first gift from Google. This generous $50,000 gift supports the research of the “Keeping Found Things Found" (KFTF) project. As our lives and our information often become more complicated and more scattered with each new gadget, device and "upgrade,” the KFTF project looks to explore new way of "bringing things together" so that people spend less time with the bookkeeping chores of personal information management (PIM) and more time living. The KFTF project has also recently received a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation.
Assistant Professor Adam Moore has been revising and putting the finishing touches on his latest book project Privacy Rights: Legal and Moral Foundations. In 2006 Adam had two articles published: “Privacy,” with PhD student Randal Kemp, in Library Hi Tech: Special Issue on Information Ethics and "Privacy, Intellectual Property, and Hacking," in Readings in Internet Security: Hacking, Counterhacking, and Society.
Betsy Wilson, Dean of University Libraries, has been named the 2007 Association of College and Research Libraries’ (ACRL) Academic/Research Librarian of the Year. The award, sponsored by YBP Library Services, recognizes an outstanding member of the library profession who has made a significant national or international contribution to academic/research librarianship and library development. Betsy will receive a $5,000 in March at the opening keynote during the ACRL 13th National Conference in Baltimore.
She has a distinguished record of service to the profession, having served as ACRL president in 2000-2001, helped establish the ACRL Institute for Information Literacy, and chaired the ACRL Instruction Section. She also served as a Member-at-Large on the ALA Council from 1991-1995. Betsy currently chairs the ACRL 14th National Conference Committee, which is planning the next conference to be held in Seattle in 2009. She recently finished a term on the Association of Research Libraries Board and currently serves on the Digital Library Federation Executive Committee.
New Assistant Professor Jake Wobbrock has started active collaborations with Microsoft Research, Intel Research, and IBM Research on three different projects dealing with input, interaction, and information.
Along with 3 Ph.D. students (1 from the iSchool, 2 from Computer Science), he has started a new research group on campus, the Accessible Input & Advanced Interaction (AI2) group.
Jake has had several co-authored articles published since joining the iSchool, including “Enabling devices, empowering people: The design and evaluation of Trackball EdgeWrite” in Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology; “Analyzing the input stream for character-level errors in unconstrained text entry evaluations” in Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction; “Eyes on the road, hands on the wheel: Thumb-based interaction techniques for input on steering wheels” in Proceedings of Graphics Interface; and “In-stroke word completion” in Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology.