Marti A. Hearst

Professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley, USA

Prof. Marti Hearst is a professor in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. She received BA, MS, and PhD degrees in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and was a Member of the Research Staff at Xerox PARC from 1994 to 1997.

A primary focus of Prof. Hearst’s research is user interfaces for search. She just completed the first book on the topic of Search User Interfaces and she has invented or participated in several well-known search interface projects including the Flamenco project that investigated and the promoted the use of faceted metadata for collection navigation. Professor Hearst’s other research areas include computational linguistics, information visualization, and analysis of social media.

Prof. Hearst has received an NSF CAREER award, an IBM Faculty Award, a Google Research Award, an Okawa Foundation Fellowship, two Excellence in Teaching Awards, and has been principle investigator for more than $3M in research grants.

Keynote: Emerging Trends in Search User Interfaces

Search is an integral part of peoples’ online lives; people turn to search engines for help with a wide range of needs and desires. Web search is a familiar tool today, but it is surprisingly difficult to design a new search interface that is successful and widely accepted. In this talk, Prof. Hearst will discuss new ideas and trends that she thinks will impact search in future.

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Peter A. Gloor

Research Scientist at the Center for Collective Intelligence at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, USA

Peter A. Gloor is a Research Scientist at the Center for Collective Intelligence at MIT’s Sloan School of Management where he leads a project exploring Collaborative Innovation Networks. He also teaches at the University of Cologne and Aalto University, Helsinki and is Chief Creative Officer of startup galaxyadvisors.

Earlier, Peter was a Partner and European e-Business Practice leader with Deloitte Consulting, a Partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers and Section Leader for Software Engineering at UBS.

His new book “Coolfarming: Turn Your Great Idea into the Next Big Thing” comes out in June 2010 at AMACOM. Peter also blogs about Swarm Creativity.

Keynote: Coolfarming – Turn Your Great Idea into the Next Big Thing

Collaborative Innovation Networks, or COINs, are cyberteams of self-motivated people with a collective vision, enabled by technology to collaborate in innovating by sharing ideas, information, and work. Although COINs have been around for hundreds of years, they are especially relevant today because the concept has reached its tipping point thanks to the Internet. COINs are powered by swarm creativity, wherein people work together in a structure that enables a fluid creation and exchange of ideas. ‘Coolhunting’ – discovering, analyzing, and measuring trends and trendsetters – and ‘Coolfarming’ – developing these trends through COINs – puts these concepts to productive use. Patterns of collaborative innovation always follow the same path, from creator to COIN to collaborative learning network to collaborative interest network. The talk also introduces Condor, a tool for dynamic semantic social network analysis. Condor applies a novel set of social network analysis based algorithms for mining the Web, blogs, and online forums to identify trends and find the people launching these new trends. The talk is based on Peter Gloor’s latest book “Coolfarming” coming out in June 2010 at AMACOM.