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iConference 2008 Summary2008 ContentsQuick Links 2008 Quick LinksLocation: Los Angeles, CA, USA 2008 By the NumbersTotal participants: 277Papers presented: 31 Posters presented: 30 Roundtables: 14 Wildcards: 17 2008 OrganizersGetty Museum Presentation and Reception iSchools Conference Planning Committee Doctoral Colloquium Junior Faculty Mentoring Conference Planning and Grphhics Elizabeth D. LiddyFeatured Guest Speaker, Thursday, February 28th Elizabeth D. Liddy is Interim Dean and Trustee Professor in the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. In 1999, she was appointed director of the school’s Center for Natural Language Processing, which advances the development of human-like language understanding software capabilities for government, commercial, and consumer applications. Liddy is also an adjunct professor at Upstate Medical University, where she conducts research on medical informatics. Liddy has led 65 research projects, with the support of numerous government agencies and commercial enterprises. In addition, she is a co-inventor on five patents in the area of natural language processing (NLP). Among her many honors, Liddy is a recipient of the Tibbetts Award from the SBIR Program of the U.S. Small Business Administration (1998), the Enterprise Award for Technology from the Upstate New York Technology Business Forum (1998), and the Outstanding Alumni Award from Syracuse University (2000). She holds a bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature from Daemen College and a M.L.S. in Information Studies and a Ph.D. in Information Transfer, both from Syracuse University. Christa PhillipsFeatured Guest Speaker, Saturday, March 1st
School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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