[Air-l] CFP Network Nation Festschrift - Hiltz/Turoff

[Michael Bieber]

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

The Network Nation and Beyond
A Festschrift in Honor of Starr Roxanne Hiltz and Murray Turoff

October 12 - 13, 2007
New Jersey Institute of Technology
University Heights - Newark, New Jersey, USA

http://is.njit.edu/events/fest07

INVITATION

Festschrifts celebrate honorees' legacies through original 
publications influenced by their contributions.

Starr Roxanne Hiltz and Murray Turoff continue to actively contribute 
after more than 30 years to the fields of computer-mediated 
communication and decision support, online learning, delphi and 
emergency response.  Their groundbreaking book "The Network Nation," 
published in 1978 and updated in 1993, has been hailed as a landmark, 
visionary publication.  This festschrift will both honor their 
contributions upon retirement from their full-time academic positions 
and explore how their legacy will continue to influence research and 
societal developments in the decades to come.

The festschrift includes keynote and research presentations, numerous 
opportunities to socialize and network, and a dinner at which people 
can relate stories about working with Roxanne and Murray, and their 
ideas. A special journal issue will follow.

The research community is invited to join the celebration, and also 
to express their good wishes to Roxanne and Murray online.

RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS / SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUE

We invite session proposals, refereed research papers and posters 
addressing the Network Nation in 2007 and beyond, which consider:
-	the legacy of Starr Roxanne Hiltz and/or Murray Turoff
-	current research inspired by their contributions
-	insightful speculations on future research and societal 
developments influenced by their foundations

Special sessions will be reserved for research presentations by 
advisees of Roxanne and Murray from the last three decades.

Especially high-quality papers will be reviewed and edited further 
for a special journal issue.  Details will be forthcoming.

DEADLINES

Session Proposal deadline: August 13, 2007
Paper Abstract deadline: August 20, 2007 (strongly requested)
Full Paper deadline: September 10, 2007
Poster deadline: September 17, 2007 (no abstract required for posters)

Journal Article deadline: January 22, 2008
Journal article submissions also will be invited from festschrift submissions.

Registration Deadlines
- early-bird: September 10, 2007
- regular: September 24, 2007

KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS

Keynote addresses will be delivered by Ronald E. Rice and Ben Shneiderman.

Keynote panelists include Linda Harasim, Abbe Mowshowitz, Karen Swan 
and Bartel Van De Walle.   (Additional keynote panelists to be 
announced.)

SENDING GOOD WISHES

Expressions of good wishes will be presented to Roxanne and Murray, 
and displayed on the Festschrift Web site.  Please post your comments 
on their legacy online.

FURTHER DETAILS

For further information, registration, travel and hotel information, 
please see: http://is.njit.edu/events/fest07

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  Michael Bieber, Professor and Acting Chair, Information Systems
  - Collaborative Hypermedia Research Lab (Co-Director)
  - Digital Library Service Integration, IntegraL and IntLib Projects (PI)

  Email: bieber at oak.njit.edu   URL: http://web.njit.edu/~bieber
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  Information Systems Department - College of Computing Sciences
  New Jersey Institute of Technology
  5500 Information Technology Center
  University Heights,  Newark, New Jersey 07102-1982  USA
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