Relevant Events 2001

January:

  • Fourth Annual Ubiquitous Computing Conference
    • Held January 4-6, 2001 in South Orange, NJ
    • Sponsored by EDUCAUSE and the Institute for Technology Development of Seton Hall University, this conference will allow faculty and information technology professionals at colleges and universities to discuss the important challenges facing campuses concerned with providing universal access to computing. This year's program includes the experiences of more than 30 institutions from the United States and Canada, which represent a wide range of Carnegie classifications. The presenters are provosts, deans, faculty, CFOs, CIOs, and leaders in higher education. The keynote speaker for the conference is Diana Oblinger, EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR) consultant.

February:

  • Campus One
    • Summit on Campus Computing Initiatives
    • Held February 1-2, 2001 in Orlando, FL
    • In its second year as a national event, Campus One provides a forum for educational institutions to share best practices, explore industry trends and  hear success stories from universities that are paving the way toward the future of student computing programs.
    • Some of the topics that will be discussed include: Pedagogy & Campus Computing: Enhancing the Educational Experience via Technology --- Student Computing A-Z: Key Elements of a Successful program --- Technology: Keys to establishing & Utilizing campus ComputingTechnology.
  • Stop Surfing - Start Teaching 2001
    • National Conference on Teaching and Learning Through the Internet
    • Held February 11-14, 2001 in Myrtle Beach, SC
    • Higher education is involved in a technological and instructional revolution that will most assuredly change the way colleges and universities meet their teaching, research and service missions. The power of the web has broken down the traditional barriers of distance, time, and place. Confronting today’s leadership are a myriad of new issues that will redefine the way teaching and learning occur. Institutions that seize these opportunities and successfully meet new challenges will be propelled to the forefront of higher education. The conference program committee has determined that the focus of the conference will be on ideas and solutions as opposed to technical demonstrations. Participants will include higher education faculty, academic staff and administrators, student services professionals, marketing directors and consultants who are committed to launching their campus onto the information superhighway.

March:

  • SITE 2001
    • 12th International Conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE)
    • Held March 5-10, 2001 in Orlando, FL
    • SITE represents individual teacher educators and affiliated organizations of teacher educators in all disciplines. The conference will cover topics related to the use of information technology in teacher education, and instruction about information technology in: Preservice, Inservice, Graduate Teacher Education, Faculty & Staff Development
  • CFP2001
    • 11th Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy
    • Held March 6-9, 2001 in Cambridge, MA
    • CFP is the leading policy conference for exploring the impact of the Internet, computers and communication technologies on society.  For more than a decade, CFP has anticipated the policy trends and issues and shaped the public debate on the future of privacy and freedom in the online world. Each year at CFP, key members of the technical, government, business, education, non-profit, legal, law enforcement, security, media and hacker/cracker communities gather together to address the cutting edge questions in computing, freedom and privacy. CFP themes are broad and forward-looking. CFP explores what will be, not what has been.
  • Euro-CSCL 2001
    • The European Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning 2001
    • Held March 22-24, 2001 in Maastricht, The Netherlands
    • CSCL conferences are devoted to the exploration of technology in collaborative forms of learning, teaching and working. Researchers, designers, educators and students in education, psychology, computer science, anthropology, sociology, communication, linguistics and ergonomics are invited to participate in this conference. Euro-CSCL 2001 is the European branch of the worldwide CSCL conference that occurs every two years. It is aimed to develop a European community of researchers by providing them with an opportunity to meet and to exchange ideas with other researchers from different continents.

May:

  • 3rd Annual Silicon Valley Conference on Nonprofits and Technology
    • "Succeeding as a Dot Org"
    • Held May 8-9, 2001 in San Jose, CA
    • Presented by the NetPoint Center for Nonprofits and Technology, in partnership with CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, HandsNet, Wired for Good and CompuMentor, this year's conference features two full days of information, training and community networking designed to help nonprofits succeed with technology.
  • CAIS 2001
    • "Beyond the Web: Technologies, Knowledge and People"
    • 29th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science
    • Held May 27-29, 2001 in Québec, Canada
    • The conference will have three distinct but related themes:
      1. Technologies: How new theories and applications of information technology are shaping and reshaping our information preferences and expectations, within traditional libraries, archives, and other burgeoning information systems and services.
      2. Knowledge: How discourse communities, fields of knowledge and information ecologies are defining and redefining themselves in changing technological, social and political contexts.
      3. People: How individuals, and their many diverse communities, interact with their information environments, both technological and intellectual, at a cognitive, cultural or intellectual level.

June:

  • WET ICE 2001
    • 10th IEEE Internationall Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises
    • Held June 20-22, 2000 in Cambridge, MA
    • WET ICE is an annual, international forum for state-of-the-art research in enabling technologies for collaboration. WET ICE 2001 will consist of parallel, three-day workshops on different topics related to collaboration technology. Each workshop will include paper presentations and working group discussions, with additional joint keynote sessions and a final joint session to summarize each groups' findings
    • Topic areas:
      1. Enterprise Security
      2. Knowledge Media Networking
      3. Web-based Infrastructures and Coordination Architectures for Collaborative Enterprises
      4. Integrating XML and Distributed Object Technologies
      5. Evaluating Collaborative Enterprises
      6. Infrastructure and Applications for the Mobile Internet
  • ED-MEDIA 2001
    • World Conference on Educational Multimedia/Hypermedia and Educational Telecommunications
    • Held June 25-30, 2001 in Tampere, Finland
    • Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Computing  in Education (AACE), this annual conference serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the discussion and exchange of information on the research, development, and applications on all topics related to multimedia/hypermedia and distance  education.
    • The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to, the following major topics:
      1. Infrastructure
      2. Tools & Content-oriented Applications
      3. New Roles of the Instructor & Learner
      4. Human-computer Interaction (HCI/CHI)
      5. Cases & Projects

August:

  • Distance Learning 2001
    • 17th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning
    • Held August 8-10, 2001 in Madison, WI
    • The Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning provides a forum for the exchange of information on distance education and training. The conference addresses the needs of educators, trainers, managers and designers from throughout the world who are involved in the application of technology to the teaching and learning process and in the planning, administration and management of distance education programs. The conference emphasizes:
      1. Practical "how to" guidelines and techniques to enhance distance teaching, learning, and course design (for audio, video, print, computer and other media).
      2. Best practices that demonstrate effective management, instructor training, and learner support services.
      3. Successful solutions, innovations or research that address important problems or barriers with proven results.
      4. New developments and trends in distance education and global learning.

September:

  • e-Philanthropy 2001
    • "The Power of the Internet to Expand Giving, Volunteering and Community Building"
    • Third Annual e-Philanthropy Conference
    • Held September 24-25, 2001 in McLean, VA
    • This two-day event will bring together a cross-section of philanthropy, nonprofit, dot-com, technology, communications, and government leaders to explore strategic issues and promising practices around the power of the Internet to increase various forms of civic engagement.
  • GROUP 2001
    • International Conference on Supporting Group Work
    • Held September 30-October 3, 2001 in Boulder, CO
    • GROUP 2001 provides a forum for researchers and practitioners who are interested in topics related to computer-based systems that have an impact on groups, organizations and social networks. Relevant issues include design, implementation, deployment, evaluation, methodologies, and effect of these systems. GROUP 2001 attempts to integrate two themes of research: the organizational and behavioral issues and the modeling or implementation issues associated with group work.

October:

  • INTERNET RESEARCH 2.0: INTERconnections
    • 2nd International Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers
    • Held October 10-14, 2001 in Minneapolis-St.Paul, MN
    • The Internet's ever-increasing points of connection to almost every element of 21st century life have prompted strong interest in understanding the social aspects of cyberspace. The popular press offers wave after wave of speculation and vague forecasts, but what is really needed to help us understand how to live in our wired world is research: research that is collaborative, international, and interdisciplinary. IR 2.0 will bring together prominent scholars, researchers, practitioners, and students from many disciplines and fields for a program of keynote addresses, paper presentations, formal discussions, and informal exchanges.
    • Possible topics include: Communication-based Internet Studies --- Distance Education and Pedagogy --- Gender, Sexualities, and the Internet --- Human-computer interaction (HCI) --- International Perspectives on the Internet --- Internet Technologies --- The "Digital Divide" --- Race and Cyberspace
  • NAWeb 2001
    • 7th Annual Conference on Web-based Teaching and Learning
    • Held October 13-16, 2001 in Fredericton, NB, Canada
    • The Conference will focus on innovative and practical uses of the World Wide Web in teaching and learning, extending the reach of existing campuses and creating "virtual" campuses of a new and unique nature.
  • CPSR Annual Conference
    • "Nurturing the Cybercommons, 1981-2021"
    • Held October 19-21, 2001 in Ann Arbor, MI
    • In 2001, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility celebrates its 20th anniversary by looking backwards and forwards two decades at the history and future of the global cybercommons. Panels and presentations will examine the key historical events that shaped today's Internet, and the prospects for its future evolution.
    • Specific themes of interest include: Voting and Election Technology and Online Politics --- Information Warfare and the Role of Nation-States --- Internet Governance and Censorship: Past, Present, and Future -- The Nature and Role of "Openness" on the Net (Open Code, Open Content, Open Access, and Open Communities) --- The Emergence and Evolution of Virtual Communities --- Information Technology and the Evolution of Privacy and Anonymity --- The Ownership of Information: Free Speech and Intellectual Property
  • WebNet 2001
    • World Conference on the WWW and Internet
    • Held October 23-27, 2001 in Orlando, FL
    • This annual conference, organized by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the exchange of information on research, development, and applications of all topics related to the Web. This encompasses the use, applications and societal and legal aspects of the Internet in its broadest sense. This conference is a must for all who plan to use the Internet to access information, communicate or conduct transactions or, who are developing applications for the Internet, including the WWW, Intranets, and Extranets.
  • EDUCAUSE 2001
    • "An EDU Odyssey"
    • Held October 28-31, 2001 in Indianapolis, IN
    • As we enter the year 2001, information technology continues to be a driving force for change in higher education. Where will our EDU Odyssey take us as we manage this transition? What new discoveries lie ahead as we shape and reshape our destiny? What strategies and support will be needed as we employ current technologies and plan for new ones? EDUCAUSE 2001: An EDU Odyssey will continue the focus begun by EDUCAUSE 2000 on how established technologies are converging and new technologies are emerging.

November:

  • Digital Communities 2001
    • "Cities in the Information Society"
    • Held November 4-7, 2001 in Chicago, IL
    • A forum to explore and discuss the challenges created by the intersection of information technology and urban life. Our interest is exploring the impact and implications of these phenomena, avoiding hyperbole as we discuss realistic scenarios of urban life in the Information Age.  The four main conference themes are: Physical Environment --- Urban Institutions --- Social Relationships --- Economy and Urban Development