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IU Informatics Faculty Present at 2009 Midwest HIMSS Technology Conference
November 12, 2009 — Josette Jones and Sara Anne Hook, faculty at Indiana University’s School of Informatics in Indianapolis, recently gave a presentation at the 2009 Midwest Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Technology Conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Their competitively-selected lecture, titled “The Impact of the 2009 Stimulus Provision on the Privacy, Security and Accessibility of the Personal Health Record (PHR),” compared the Electronic Health Record with the Personal Health Record in the wake of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Full storyIU Informatics professor and alums featured speakers at leading pharma conference
September 30, 2009 — Two graduates of IU's Laboratory Informatics Program, and an IU Health Informatics professor will be featured speakers at LI '09: The 5th Forum on Lab Informatics. This year's conference - "Advancing Laboratory Informatics to speed up the analytical process and Time to Market" - will be held Oct. 26-28 in San Francisco.
Full storyToo scary to be real, research looks to quantify eeriness in virtual characters
September 24, 2009 —
Indiana University's Karl MacDorman has been to the valley -- the uncanny valley of virtual humans so lifelike they give us real humans the creeps. What he's found is that things don't look so bad after all.
IU workshop to increase awareness about advantages of databases in research
August 21, 2009 —
Rapid technological advances now offer new research opportunities through the unprecedented explosion of digital data. As a result, researchers are finding that manual processes for data and traditional tools such as Excel are no longer adequate and they need assistance with data-related issues.
John Ludwick to give Heartland Film Festival lecture
August 19, 2009 —
John Ludwick, lecturer, IU School of Informatics, Media Arts & Science program, presents "Animated Filmmaking: Emotions in Motion". The free lecture is being offered during this year's Heartland Film Festival. Sponsored by the Heartland Film Institute, Ludwick's talk is scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 10.
MAS professor kicks off IUPUI Cutting Edge Lecture Series
August 19, 2009 —
Richard Edwards, associate professor, IU School of Informatics, Media Arts & Science program, will join five fellow IUPUI faculty members for this semester's Cutting Edge Lecture Series. Leading IUPUI professors will engage the campus and community in discussions about rapidly changing fields of inquiry in this on-campus lecture series. The speakers will share their expertise and insights regarding the applications of their current research endeavors.
MacDorman and the Terminator
May 20, 2009 — Karl MacDorman, associate professor, is an IUPUI School of Informatics researcher studying the "uncanny valley". MacDorman's perspective about this cognitive phenomenon is included in the article Why "Terminator" is so creepy at livescience.com.
Full storyJake Chen receives top-level designation by ACM; featured in campus Faculty Spotlight
May 20, 2009 — Jake Chen, assistant professor, IU School of Informatics at IUPUI, was recently recognized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) as the recipient of the 2009 Senior Member. According to ACM, the senior member grade is an award that "recognizes those ACM members with at least 10 years of professional experience and 5 years of continuous Professional Membership who have demonstrated performance that sets them apart from their peers."
Full storyInformatics medical animation featured in public television series on health
April 30, 2009 —
One of the great values of 3D animation, as taught in the Media Arts and Science program, IU School of Informatics, is the ability to make complex issues easier to understand. That’s been the longtime mantra of Albert William, an IUPUI research associate. To that end, a health-related animation project created by William is featured in an important series of broadcasts on public television stations across Indiana.
Media Arts and Science professor publishes research on critical thinking vs. software education
April 27, 2009 — Edgar Huang, associate professor, IU School of Informatics at IUPUI, has published a paper examining the distinctions between teaching students how to think and how to use software. Teaching Button-Pushing versus Teaching Thinking: The State of New Media Education in US Universities was published in "Convergence, the International Journal of Research Into New Media Technologies".
Full storyDanita Forgey selected as School of Informatics philanthropy honoree
April 15, 2009 — Danita Forgey, lecturer, has been selected as the School of Informatics 2009 Spirit of Philanthropy honoree. She and other representatives will be recognized at the IUPUI Spirit of Philanthropy Luncheon and Awards Ceremony April 22, 11:30 A.M. at the Campus Center. The awards and luncheon are an annual celebration of the civic spirit for those who have helped IUPUI become a great urban campus, and honors the campus' most dedicated donors and volunteers.
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