Social Computing Symposium 2005

The Social Computing Symposium 2005, sponsored by Microsoft Research, will take place April 24-26 in Redmond, Washington. The goal for this event is to foster an awareness of research and innovation in social technologies, and create new lines of communication between research and industry.

We have over 80 people from industry labs, new technology companies, and academic research coming this year. The symposium agenda is comprised of a mix of invited speakers and panelists, research presentations, discussion sessions, and demos, to encourage ongoing conversations about new directions in social technologies.

Panelists, Speakers, and Attendees

Ken Anderson, Group Manager, People and Practices Research, Intel
Betsy Aoki, Program Manager, MS Communities, Microsoft
Genevieve Bell, Anthropologist, People and Practices Research, Intel
Jeffrey Boase, PhD Student, Sociology, University of Toronto
danah boyd, PhD Student, Information Management Systems, UC Berkeley
Kyle Brinkman, Product Manager and co-founder, MySpace
Amy Bruckman, Associate Professor, Georgia Tech
A.J. Brush, Researcher, Community Technologies, Microsoft Research
JJ Cadiz, Program Manager, Real-Time Collaboration, Microsoft
Craig Callé, Chief Executive Officer, COMMON Network, Inc.
Lili Cheng, Group Manager, Social Computing Group, Microsoft Research
Elizabeth Churchill, Research Scientist, Xerox Parc
Scott Counts, Researcher, Microsoft Research
Ward Cunningham, Architect, PAG, Microsoft
Austina De Bonte, Group Program Manager, MSN Communications Client, Microsoft
John Dempsey, Programmer-writer, Office Information Bridge Framework
Martin Dodge, Cyber Geography Research, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London
Rael Dornfest, Chief Technology Officer, O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Paul Dourish, Associate Professor of Informatics, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, UC Irvine
Lilia Efimova, Graduate Student, Telematica Instituut, The Netherlands
Jason Ellis, Researcher, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Jyri Engeström, PhD student, Department of Organization, Work and Technology in the Management School at Lancaster University, UK
Randall Farmer, Community Strategic Analyst, Yahoo
Shelly Farnham, Researcher, Social Computing Group, Microsoft Research
Andrew Fiore, PhD Student, School of Information Management and Systems, UC Berkeley
Danyel Fisher, Researcher, Community Technologies, Microsoft Research
Jay Fluegel, Lead Program Manager, MSN Spaces, Microsoft
Brady Forrest, Program Manager, Search, Microsoft
Tom Glaisyer, Graduate Student, International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Steven Greenberg, Principal Strategist for the Web Audience group at AOL
Ben Gross, PhD Student, Library and Information Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jonathan Grudin, Researcher, Microsoft Research
Richard Hodkinson, PhD Student, USC Annenberg School for Communication
Henri ter Hofte, Researcher, Telematica Instituut
Jim Hudson, Graduate Student, College of Computing, Georgia Tech
JJ Jacobi, Consultant for Social Networking companies, formerly at Amazon creating the social networking, personalization, and shopping metric software
Karrie Karahalios, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign
Wendy Kellogg, Group Manager, Social Computing Research IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Sean Kelly, Research Software Development Engineer, Social Computing Group, Microsoft Research
Anne Kirah, Senior Design Anthropologist, Microsoft
Joseph Konstan, Associate Professor, Computer Science, University of Minnesota
Nalini Kotamraju, PhD Candidate, Sociology, UC Berkeley and User Researcher, Software eXperience Design, Sun Microsystems, Inc
Robert Kraut, Professor, HCI Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Elizabeth Lawley, Professor, Information Technology, Rochester Institute of Technology
Steven Levy
Dan Ling, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research
Pamela Ludford, PhD Candidate, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota
Matt MacLaurin, Program Manager, Social Computing Group
Kevin Marks, Principal Engineer, Technorati
Joseph McCarthy, Connector in Chief, Interrelativity, Inc.
David McDonald, Assistant Professor, The Information School, University of Washington
David Millen, Group Manager, Collaborative User Experience, IBM
Narasimhan Nitya, Researcher, Pervasive Platforms and Architectures Lab, Motorola
Dare Obasanjo, Program Manager, Communication Services Platform, Microsoft
Ray Ozzie, CTO at Microsoft, formerly founder of Groove Networks and Iris Associates
Roy Pargas, Associate Professor, Computer Science, Clemson University
Korby Parnell, Program Manager, Microsoft’s Developer Division
Eric Paulos, Research Scientist, Intel Research Berkeley
Igor Perisic, Chief Scientist, Entopia
Will Portnoy, Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science from the University of Washington
Derek Powazek, Senior Designer, Technorati
Jenny Preece, Dean of the College of Information Studies, University of Maryland
Mitch Ratcliffe, Founder, Persuadio LLC and MyDensity.com, former Chief Content Officer, ON24 and currently, President of Internet/Media Strategies Inc. and Co-founder of Creative Media Partners
Paul Resnick, Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan
Howard Rheingold, Author of Smart Mobs, The Virtual Community, Tools for Thought
Warren Sack, Assistant Professor, Film & Digital Media, University of California, Santa Cruz
Doug Schuler, Doug Schuler, former chair of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) and a founding member of the Seattle Community Network (SCN)
Jordan Schwartz, Senior Program Manager, Pix, Microsoft
Robert Scoble, Technical Evangelist, Platform Strategy, Microsoft
Wes Shumar, Professor of Anthropology, Drexel University
David Silver, Assistant Professor of Communication, University of Washington
Ian Smith, Senior Researcher, Intel Research Seattle Lab
John Smith, Principal, Learning Alliances, Community steward, CPsquare
Marc Smith, Sociologist/Group Manager, Community Technologies Group, Microsoft Research
Linda Stone, ex-Microsoft Vice President & Director of Virtual Worlds Group at Microsoft Research
Bill Tomlinson, Assistant Professor, Informatics and Drama, University of California, Irvine
Mike Torres, Lead Program Manager, MSN Spaces at Microsoft
Julita Vassileva, Associate Professor, Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Fernanda Viégas, PhD Candidate, Sociable Media Group, MIT Media Lab
David Weinberger, Writer
Nancy White, Founder, Full Circle Associates
James Witte, Associate Professor, Sociology, Clemson University
Eleanor Wynn, Information Services & Technology Group, Intel Corporation

Sunday, April 24, 2005

Monday, April 25, 2005

Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Social Computing Symposium 2005 will be held at:

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

To view last year’s speakers and presentations, visit Social Computing Symposium 2004.