Subject: ALCTS webinar: Universal Access to All Knowledge (September 5,
2012)
From: ALCTS-CE Announce <alcts.ce.announce_at_gmail.com>
Date: 8/22/2012 10:25 AM
*Apologies in advance for multiple postings.*
ALCTS webinar: Universal Access to All Knowledge
Date: September 5, 2012
This webinar will be * 90 minutes * in length and will begin at 11am
Pacific, noon Mountain, 1pm Central, and 2pm Eastern time.
Description: Advances in computing and communications mean that we can
cost-effectively store every book, sound recording, movie, software
package, and public web page ever created, and provide access to these
collections via the Internet to students and adults all over the world.
By mostly using existing institutions and funding sources, we can build
this as well as compensate authors within the current worldwide library
budget.
As these digital libraries take shape there are new opportunities for
computer scientists. Can we make a distributed web of books that
supports vending and lending? How can our machines learn by reading
these materials? Can we reconfigure the information to make interactive
question answering machines? Can we learn from the past human
translations of documents to seed an automatic version? Similarly, can
we learn how to do optical character recognition by having billions of
correct examples? What compensation systems will serve creators and
networked users? How do we preserve petabytes of changing data?
This talk will give an overview of the collections and challenges now
facing those of us building digital libraries, and end with a list of
projects that might now be possible because of these collections.
Presenter: Brewster Kahle studied artificial intelligence at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Soon after graduating, he helped
found Thinking Machines, a supercomputer maker. In 1989, Mr. Kahle
created the Internet’s first publishing system, Wide Area Information
Server (WAIS) and established WAIS, Inc., which revolutionized the
electronic publishing market. In 1996, Mr. Kahle founded the Internet
Archive, one of the largest digital libraries in the world. With 100
partnering libraries, the Internet Archive is working to create an
online catalog of every book ever created. Also, in 1996 Mr. Kahle
co-founded Alexa Internet, a service that collects data on web browsing
behavior for future analysis. Together with his wife, Mary Austin, Mr.
Kahle started The Kahle/Austin Foundation, which supports the Internet
Archive along with other non-profit organizations with similar goals.
Additionally, Mr. Kahle is the founder of Open Content Alliance, a group
of organizations contributing to a permanent, publicly accessible
archive of digitized texts.
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Registration Fees: $39 ALCTS Member; $49 Non-member; $39 International;
$99 Group (a group of people that will watch it together).
For additional information and access to registration links, please see
the following website:
http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/09052012
ALCTS webinars are recorded and registrants will receive a link to the
recording shortly following the live event.
For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling
1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration_at_ala.org. For all other
questions or comments related to the webinars, contact Julie Reese,
ALCTS Events Manager at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5034 or alctsce_at_ala.org.
Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.
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