Social Computing Symposium 2006

The Social Computing Symposium 2006, sponsored by Microsoft Research, will take place May 8-9, 2006 in Redmond, Washington, U.S. The goal for this event is to foster an awareness of research and innovation in social technologies and to create new lines of communication between research and industry. This year’s event will focus on two specific areas of social computing — online third places and mobile social software — and on cultural and lifestage issues associated with each.

We have nearly 90 people from industry labs, new technology companies, and academic research coming this year. The symposium will be focused on brief “lightning round” panels that focus on questions in this emerging technological space and on discussions surrounding those questions.

Lightning round panels and closing keynotes will be webcast. We will also provide an interactive chat or IRC environment to support external participation in the symposium activities. Details on the webcast and chat environment will be posted the week before the symposium.

Panelists, Speakers, and Attendees

Microsoft
Betsy Aoki, Microsoft (Windows Live)
Sean Blagsvedt, Microsoft Research, Bangalore
AJ Brush, Microsoft Research
Raman Chandrasekar, Microsoft Research
Lili Cheng, Microsoft (Windows)
Scott Counts, Microsoft Research
Sue Dumais, Microsoft Research
Danyel Fisher, Microsoft Research
Gary Flake, Microsoft (Live Labs)
Jonathan Grudin, Microsoft Research
Neeti Gupta, Microsoft (Mobile)
Liz Lawley, Microsoft Research
Josh Ledgard, Microsoft (DevDiv)
Dan Ling, Microsoft Research
Tracy Lovejoy, Microsoft (Mobile)
Todd Needham, Microsoft Research
Korby Parnell, Microsoft (MSDN)
Bob Rebholz, Microsoft (Windows)
Tim Regan, Microsoft Research, Cambridge
Jeff Sandquist, Microsoft (Channel 9)
Kevin Schofield, Microsoft Research
Marc Smith, Microsoft Research
Tammara Turner, Microsoft Research
Gina Venolia, Microsoft Research
Evelyne Viegas, Microsoft Research (Live Labs)
Turner Whitted, Microsoft Research

Industry Research Labs
Genevieve Bell, Intel Research
Elizabeth Churchill, PARC
Nic Ducheneaut, PARC
Shelly Farnham, Farnham Research
Scott Golder, HP Labs
Irene Greif, IBM Research
Joe McCarthy, Interrelativity
Richard-Seyler Ling, Telenor R&D
Fernanda Viegas, IBM Research

Technology Companies
Daniel Ben-Horin, CompuMentor
Kyle Brinkman, MySpace
Tom Coates, Yahoo!
Dennis Crowley, Google (Dodgeball)
Caterina Fake, Yahoo! (Flickr)
Randy Farmer, Yahoo!
Brady Forrest, O'Reilly Media
Robin Harper, Linden Labs
Mary Hodder, Dabble
Lilly Irani, Google
Matt Jones, Nokia
Ross Mayfield, Socialtext
Josh Peterson, 43Things/RobotCoop
Joshua Schachter, Yahoo! (del.icio.us)
Mike Sellers, Online Alchemy
Michael Sharon, Socialight
Ev Williams, Odeo

Academia
Catherine Beaton, Rochester Institute of Technology
Julian Bleecker, University of Southern California — Annenberg Center
Barry Brown, Glasgow University
Tim Burke, Swarthmore College
Judith Donath, MIT Media Lab
Rael Dornfest, O'Reilly Media
Paul Dourish, University of California - Irvine
Josh Fouts, University of Southern California Center on Public Diplomacy
Guy Garnett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Juan Gilbert, Auburn University
Dan Hunter, Wharton School of the Univ. of Pennsylvania
Karrie Karahalios, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Torill Mortensen, Volda College, Norway
Daniel Pargman, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Andy Phelps, Rochester Institute of Technology
Jenny Preece, University of Maryland
Paul Resnick, University of Michigan
Constance Steinkuehler, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Doug Thomas, University of Southern California
Dmitri Williams, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Authors and Analysts
Julian Dibbell
Joi Ito
Dina Mehta
Howard Rheingold
Clay Shirky
Linda Stone

Students
danah boyd, University of California at Berkeley (and Yahoo!)
Jyri Engestrom, University of Helsinkin (and Nokia)
Andrew Fiore, University of California at Berkeley
Lisa Galarneau, University of Waikato, New Zealand (and Microsoft Gaming Division)
Ulla-Maria Mutanen, University of Helsinki
Erica Robles, Stanford University
Irina Shklovski, Carnegie Mellon University
Molly Steenson, Yale
Amanda Williams, University of California at Irvine

Agenda

Monday, May 8, 2006

8:00–9:00 AM	Breakfast
9:00–9:30	Microsoft Research Welcome Liz Lawley, Marc Smith, Dan Ling
9:30–10:00	Introductions and Icebreaker
10:00–10:30	Lightning Round 1: Learning in and about Virtual Worlds Constance Steinkuehler, Tim Burke, Nic Ducheneaut, Andy Phelps, Dan Hunter, Clay Shirky
10:30–11:00	Break and Session Planning
11:00–12:00	Discussion Sessions 1
12:00–1:30 PM	Lunch
1:30–2:00	Lightning Round 2: Mobile/Pervasive Social Computing Rich Ling, Dina Mehta, Daniel Pargman, Cathy Beaton, Howard Rheingold
2:00–2:30	Session Planning
2:30–3:30	Discussion Sessions 2
3:30–4:00	Break
4:00–5:00	Reporting Back to Main Group
7:00–10:00	Dinner on Argosy Cruise Sponsored by MSN

Tuesday, May 9, 2006

8:00–9:00 AM	Breakfast
9:00–9:30	Lightning Round 3: Interactions in Online “Spaces” Julian Dibbell, Fernanda Viegas, Kyle Brinkman, Judith Donath, Scott Golder, Karrie Karahalios
9:30–10:30	Session Planning
10:30–11:30	Discussion Sessions 3
11:30–12:30 PM	Lunch
12:30–1:30	Discussion Sessions 4
1:30–2:00	Reporting Back to Main Group
2:00–3:30	Closing Keynotes Matt Jones, danah boyd, and Clay Shirky
3:30–4:00	Wrap-up and Next Steps Liz Lawley
4:00–6:00	Reception Sponsored by Channel 9 and MSCOM

Location

Social Computing Symposium 2006 will be held at:

Marriott Redmond Town Center Hotel
7401 164th Avenue NE
Redmond, WA 98052

Past Symposia

To view previous years’ speakers and presentations, visit Social Computing Symposium 2005 and Social Computing Symposium 2004.