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The Social Computing Symposium 2004 was held on March 29-30, 2004 at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington. The Symposium was hosted by the Social Computing Group in MSR in collaboration with the Social Computing Research Groups at IBM and FX Palo Alto. We hosted 75 researchers, practitioners, and designers, all leaders in the field of social computing and social software.

The goal for this event was to support open collaboration between industrial research laboratories, practitioners, and members of the academic community -- exploring and elaborating issues that are central to research in Social Computing such as the consideration of theoretical and methodological issues in the design, development and evaluation of Social Computing technologies, and elaboration of the potential for emerging Social Computing technologies.

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Panelists, Speakers, and Organizers

Keynote Speaker:
Scott Heiferman: Founder and CEO of Meetup.com (presentation)

Panel on Social Computing -- Key Questions, Challenges, Trends, and Where is this Taking Us: (presentation)
Ze Frank: ZeFrank.com
Joi Ito: CEO, Neotony, Inc.
Clay Shirky: Writer
Steven Johnson: Writer
Tim O'Reilly: CEO, O'Reilly and Associates

Panel on Democracy and Dating -- Social Computing on Purpose: (presentation)
David Weinberger: Writer
Michael Cornfield: Associate Research Professor, Graduate School of Political Management, George Washington University
Scott Heiferman: CEO, Meetup.com
Pam Meyer: Manhattan Studios

Short Talks and Discussion Leaders:
Elizabeth Churchill: Senior Research Scientist, Social Computing Research Group, FX Palo Alto Laboratory (presentation)
Wendy Kellogg: Group Manager, Social Computing Research IBM TJ Watson Research Center (presentation)
Danah Boyd: Ph.D Student, Information Management Systems, UC Berkely (presentation)
Judith Donath: Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, and Director of Sociable Media Group at MIT Media Lab (presentation)
Mizuko Ito: Research Associate, Annenberg Center for Communication, University of Southern California (presentation)
Ward Cunningham: Architect, Microsoft (presentation)
Tom Erickson: Researcher, Social Computing Group, IBM TJ Watson Research Center (presentation)
Jenny Preece: Professor, Information Systems Department, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (presentation)
Susan Herring: Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University (presentation)
Warren Sack: Assistant Professor, Film & Digital Media Department, University of California, Santa Cruz (presentation)
Steve Whittaker: Professor, Information Studies Department, Sheffield University (presentation)
Paul Resnick: Associate Professor, University of Michigan (presentation)
Shelly Farnham: Researcher, Social Computing Group, Microsoft Research (presentation)
Sean Kelly: Research Developer, Social Computing Group, Microsoft Research (presentation)
Rael Dornfest: Maven, O'Reilly and Associates, Inc. (presentation)

Organizers:
Lili Cheng: Group Manager, Social Computing Group, Microsoft Research
Shelly Farnham: Researcher, Social Computing Group, Microsoft Research
Linda Stone: Panel Moderator: ex-Microsoft VP/Director of the Virtual Worlds Group in Microsoft Research

Schedule/Agenda

Symposium Location: Columbia Winery, located in the beautiful Sammamish Valley in Woodinville
http://www.columbiawinery.com/home.asp

Sunday, March 28th
     6:00pm: Welcome Reception Dinner at the Hyatt Regency.

Monday, March 29th
    7:30am: Shuttle Buses Leave Hyatt Regency to Winery
    8:00am-9:00am: Continental Breakfast
    9:00am-10:30am: Introductions and Keynote
    11:00am-12:30pm: Panel: Social Computing
    1:30pm-5:30pm: Short Talks
    6:00pm: Dinner Party at the Big Picture: http://www.thebigpicture.net
    10:30pm-11:00pm: Shuttle Buses Return to Hyatt Regency

Tuesday, March 30th
    7:30am: Shuttle Buses Leave Hyatt Regency to Winery
    8:00am-9:00am: Continental Breakfast
    9:00am-10:30am: Panel: E-Democracy & Civic Action
    11:00am-2:00pm: Short Talks
    2:30pm-5:30pm: Break Out Session and Discussion
    5:30pm: Winery Tour
    6:00pm-9pm: Dinner at the Winery
    9:30pm: Shuttle Buses Return to Hyatt Regency

Accommodations

Hyatt Regency Bellevue
900 Bellevue Way NE
Bellevue, Washington
98004-4272 USA
Phone: 425-462-1234

Hotel reservations: http://bellevue.hyatt.com/groupbooking/scpt