LITA Forum, October 7 - 10, St. Louis, MO

[Rob Carlson]

(widely cross-posted; apologies in advance for duplicates)

Register before August 31 to receive $50.00 off the regular
registration rate for the 2004 LITA National Forum, which will be held
in the Sheraton West Port Lakeside Chalet in St. Louis, Missouri,
October 7 - 10.

Three exciting keynote speakers will anchor the Forum.

On Friday, October 8, Robert Rydell, professor of history at Montana
State University-Bozeman and expert on world's fairs, will present
"Globalization and Its Discontents: A Preview from 1904."  The
centennial of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair provides an opportunity to
reflect on the meaning of globalization a century ago and on what has
changed and what has remained the same.

On Saturday, October 9, Susan Dumais, Senior Researcher, Adaptive
Systems and Interaction Group, Microsoft Research, will present "Stuff
I've Seen: Personal Information Management and Use."  Stuff I've Seen
(SIS) facilitates information re-use by providing a unified index to
information that a person has seen, regardless of whether the
information was seen as an email, appointment, web page, document,
hand-written note, etc.  Because the information has been seen before,
rich contextual cues and visualizations can be used to present search
results.

The 2004 Forum will wrap up on Sunday, October 10, with Clifford Lynch,
Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information, providing his
illuminating observations on the Forum theme and the issues raised
throughout the Forum's three days of keynote, concurrent, and poster
sessions.

Please visit http://www.lita/org/forum04 for more information and to
register.