We encourage submissions from scholars and researchers on all topics that intersect current theory and practice in the Humanities and Computer Science.

Sponsored by the Humanities Division, the Computational Institute, NSIT Academic Technologies and the University Library at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University and the College of Science and Letters at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Website:

http://dhcs.uchicago.edu

Location:

The University of Chicago Ida Noyes Hall 1212 East 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637

Keynote Speakers:

• Oren Etzioni is Director of the Turing Center (http://turing.cs.washington.edu/) and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington where his current research interests (http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/etzioni/index.html) include fundamental problems in the study of artificial intelligence, web search, machine reading, and machine learning. Etzioni was the founder of Farecast, a company that utilizes data mining techniques to anticipate airfare fluctuations, and the KnowItAll project, which is is building domain-independent systems to extract information from the Web in an autonomous, scalable manner. Etzioni has published extensively in his field and served as an Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on the Web and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, amongst others.
• Martin Wattenberg is a computer scientist and new media artist whose work focuses on the visual explorations of culturally significant data (http://www.bewitched.com/). He is the founding manager of IBM's Visual Communication Lab (http://www.research.ibm.com/visual/), which researches new forms of visualization and how they can enable better collaboration. The lab's latest project is Many Eyes (http://www.many-eyes.com/), an experiment in open, public data visualization and analysis. Wattenberg is also known for his visualization-based artwork, which has been exhibited in venues such as the London Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the New York Museum of Modern Art.
• Stephen Downie is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests (http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/oc/people/bio.html?id=jdownie) include the design and evaluation of IR systems, including multimedia music information retrieval, the political economy of inter-networked communication systems, database design and web-based technologies. Downie is the principal investigator of the International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation Laboratory (http://www.music-ir.org/evaluation/) (IMIRSEL), which is working on producing a large, secure corpus of audio and symbolic music data accessible to the music information retrieval (MIR) community.

Program Committee:

• Shlomo Argamon (http://lingcog.iit.edu/~argamon/), Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute of Technology
• Helma Dik (http://humanities.uchicago.edu/depts/classics/People/Faculty/dikcv.html), Department of Classics, University of Chicago
• John Goldsmith (http://hum.uchicago.edu/~jagoldsm/Webpage/index.html), Department of Linguistics, Computer Science, Computation Institute, University of Chicago
• Catherine Mardikes (http://lib.uchicago.edu/), Bibliographer for Classics, the Ancient Near East, and General Humanities, University of Chicago Library
• Robert Morrissey (http://rll.uchicago.edu/facultystaff/morrissey.shtml), Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Director of the ARTFL Project, University of Chicago
• Martin Mueller (http://www.english.northwestern.edu/people/mueller.html), Department of English and Classics, Northwestern University
• Mark Olsen (http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/), Associate Director of the ARTFL Project, University of Chicago
• Jason Salavon (http://dova.uchicago.edu/f_jasonsalavon.html), Department of Visual Arts, Computation Institute, University of Chicago
• Kotoka Suzuki (http://music.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/suzuki.shtml), Department of Music, Visual Arts, University of Chicago
• Gary Tubb (http://salc.uchicago.edu/facultybios/tubb.html), Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago

Call for Participation:

Participation in the colloquium is open to all. We welcome submissions for:

• Paper presentations (20 minute maximum)
• Poster sessions
• Software demonstrations
• Performances
• Pre-conference tutorials/teach-ins
• Pre-conference 'birds of a feather' meetings

Preliminary Colloquium Schedule:

DHCS will begin with a half-day, pre-conference on Saturday, Nov. 1st. offering introductory tutorials on topics such as text analysis/data-mining and GIS (Geographic Information Systems) applications for the Humanities. We also encourage colloquium attendees to use the pre-conference period for informal 'birds of a feather' meetings on topics of common interest.

The formal DHCS colloquium program runs from Nov. 2nd to Nov. 3rd and will consist of four, 1 1/2 hour paper panels and two, 2 hour poster sessions as well as three keynotes. Generous time has been set aside for questions and follow-up discussions after each panel and in the schedule breaks. There are no parallel sessions.

For further details, please see the preliminary colloquium schedule (http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/dhcs2008/schedule/).

Suggested submission topics:

• Computing Cinematic Syntax
• Social Scholarship / Socialized Search
• Sound, Video & Image based Information Retrieval
• Programming Algorithmic Art
• Virtual Acoustic Space and Aural Architecture
• Statistical Analyses and Literary Meaning
• Visualizing Large Data: Lessons from Industry and the Sciences
• Computer Vision for Humanists: Recognizing and Modeling Objects, Scenes & Events
• Computational Approaches for Analyzing Communicative Forms
• Serious Gaming
• From a Maze of Twisty Passages All Alike: Future Interactive Fictions
• Information Visualization and Visual Analytics
• Cartography and the Digital Traveler / GIS Applications for the Humanities
• Representing Reading Time
• Computer-mediated Interaction / Hacking the Wiimote: Pwning the iPhone
• Gestural & Haptic Control for Music Composition / Multimedia and Multi-modal Interfaces
• Schemas for Scholars: Historicizing Machine Learning Ontologies
• Eye Tracking & Scene Perception in the Cinema
• Semantic Search / Semantic Web
• Virtual Models to Reconstruct Past Events, Cultures, Objects & Places
• Deconstructing Machine Learning
• The Library Catalog as Social Network / Library 2.0
• Mapping Social Relationships in the Novel
• Music Perception and Cognition
• SOA Frameworks for Scholarly Primitives
• Multi-agent Systems for Modeling Language Change
• Empirical Philosophy / Affective Computing / Experience Capture.

Submission Format:

Please submit a (2 page maximum) abstract in Adobe PDF (preferred) or MS Word format to dhcs-submissions@listhost.uchicago.edu.

Graduate Student Travel Fund:

A limited number of bursaries are available to assist graduate students who are presenting at the colloquium with their travel and accommodation expenses. No separate application form is required. Current graduate students whose proposals have been accepted for the colloquium will be contacted by the organizers with more details.

Important Dates:

Deadline for Submissions: Monday, August 31st Notification of Acceptance: Monday, September 15th Full Program Announcement: Monday, September 22nd Registration: Monday, September 22nd - Friday, October 24th Colloquium: Saturday, November 1st - Monday, November 3rd

Contact Info:

Please direct all inquiries to: dhcs-conference@listhost.uchicago.edu

Organizing Committee:

• Arno Bosse, Senior Director for Technology, Humanities Division, University of Chicago.
• Helma Dik, Department of Classics, University of Chicago
• Catherine Mardikes, Bibliographer for Classics, the Ancient Near East, and General Humanities, University of Chicago Library.
• Mark Olsen, Associate Director, ARTFL Project, University of Chicago