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George Miller dead at 92
Rather sorry today to learn of the death of George Miller, a legendary scientist in the field of psychology who most people know for his formulation of the 7 +/- 2 chunks in short-term memory...
View ArticleLearning a lot at CSSP
I attended the Council of Scientific Society Presidents meeting this past weekend in DC and it proved fascinating. A slate of top speakers covered advances and challenges across the spectrum of...
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CSSP: best content in a conference I’ve experienced
Despite the efforts of the winter weather and an over-complicated information system owned by American Airlines (which has little real information to offer), I managed to attend part of the Council of...
View ArticleHijacking conferences by any other name
In our field, the HICSS conference is rather well known, not least for its choice location (Hawaii) at a time of year (January) when most US folks want a break from the weather. I’m not a huge fan of...
View ArticleReading online is ruining my life….
Well not quite but not entirely untrue either. A couple of weeks ago I took a call from a rather persistent journalist at the Washington Post, who wanted to talk to me about the changes that might be...
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Daily Texan article picks up this blog
Digital media changes reading habits, according to UT professor Andrew Dillon, dean and professor in the School of Information, has been conducting research that suggests the way people read online...
View ArticleOpen access publication grows in acceptance?
Taylor and Francis have just released their second annual “Open Access Survey, June 2014,” which gauges scholars opinions toward open access publication. The results reveal growing belief that open...
View ArticleHow to publish a paper in easy steps
It’s never been easier to be a scholar — just take a look at this invitation I received from a journal: Dear Dillon, Andrew, It’s a great honor to select out and read your article titled Inventing HCI:...
View ArticleiSchool faculty in Top 5 UT Inventions of 2014
What is it? Ciaran Trace, assistant professor in the School of Information, and Luis Francisco-Revilla, research associate at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, created software for a large...
View ArticlePPR talks now online
I greatly enjoyed this year’s Patient Privacy Rights Summit in DC. I usually do not get to attend the same conferences as physicians, policymakers, lawyers etc but this annual summit brings them all...
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New book on Info Design
I’ve put a couple of new chapters together in the past year on the nature of design knowledge in information. The latest has just been published in an impressively large volume edited by colleagues at...
View ArticleScholarly publishing and the mafia?
I receive innumerable invitations these days to publish my work. Nice eh? For a while I kept a folder of nutty requests from new journals or conferences that wanted me to speak. In the past two months...
View ArticleInteresting talk on bias from Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Our first speaker at the iSchool this fall offered an interesting overview of the forms and pernicious nature of bias on the web. Some examples were truly eye-popping (try the Google translator for...
View ArticleLet’s treat information space like the environment
In my Follett Lecture at Dominican University this week I examined the true nature of our information space and introduced the argument of considering information space in the same manner we conceive...
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