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ATEC Professors Max Schich and Roger Malina are pleased to announce a call for papers for the Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks at Netsci2013. This symposium will take place in Copenhagen at DTU, Technical University of Denmark on Tuesday, June 4, 2013.

Submission

For submission instructions please visit artshumanities.netsci2013.net.
Deadline for submission is March 31, 2013.
Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by April 8, 2013.

Abstract

This symposium will bring together pioneering work in the overlap of arts, humanities, network research, data science, and information design. The 2013 symposium will leverage interaction between those areas by means of keynotes, a number of contributions, and a high-profile panel discussion.

In our call, we are looking for a diversity of research contributions revolving around networks in culture, networks in art, networks in the humanities, art about networks, and research in network visualization. Focusing on these five pillars that have crystallized out of our previous meetings, the 2013 symposium strives to make further impact in the arts, humanities, and natural sciences.

Running parallel to the NetSci2013 conference, the symposium provides a unique opportunity to mingle with leading researchers in complex network science, potentially sparking fruitful collaborations.

As in previous years, selected papers will be published in print, both in a Special Section of Leonardo Journal MIT-Press and in a dedicated Leonardo eBook MIT-Press.

Further information and abstracts available at ahcncompanion.info.

The end of this month marks the 4th annual Big Design Conference at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Addison, TX.

Big Design is a weekend learning intensive conference for digital creatives May 31-June 2, 2012. With almost 60 speakers from all over the country, the topics vary from design, strategy, user experience, and code development.

Several of the speakers hail from the Dallas area: Hassan Bawab has a BS in Computer Science from UNT, Brett Briley is a character artist for ID Software, and Jim Carlsen-Landy is the Director of User Experience at Sabre Airline Solutions. Keynote speakers include: Sharron Rush, Stephen Anderson, Adam Hansen, and Jared Spool.

With the discounted student tickets and promotional code “UTD”, the cost to attend the conference for UT Dallas students is only $79 instead of the general admission price of over $200. You can register online.

The organizers encourage UTD students who are interested in shooting video or photography to do so. If you would like to check out equipment, please make arrangements with Kyle Kondas through Twitter: @kyle1point0.

Join the Galerstein Women’s Center at UT Dallas for an evening of engaging dialogue with a distinguished group of women leaders from Ericsson, the Department of Labor and  UT Dallas’s chapter of Society of Women Engineers.

This is an opportunity for those seeking careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).

Discussion topics will include the transition from student to work life, isolation in male-dominated fields, equal pay, mentoring, career leadership, diversity and workplace etiquette.

Register by March 23 at steminthecity.eventbrite.com.

The Arts and Technology program will participate in a high-tech, 24-hour international multimedia show honoring the father of computer science, Alan Turing.

On March 23 and 24, UT Dallas Arts and Technology faculty members Dr. Marjorie Zielke and Dr. Roger Malina, professor Judy LeFlore of University of Texas at Arlington and ATEC students Sanger Doane and Steven “Slade” Jansa, will participate as virtual Texans in a worldwide streaming extravaganza celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing.

Alan Turing’s accomplishments made a fundamental impact on the development of the computer and to our contemporary networked digital culture.

Alan Turing is sometimes called the father of computer science.  In 1935, at the age of 23 he invented the concept of abstract computing machines – now known simply as Turing machines - on which all subsequent stored-program digital computers are modeled.

Turing also pioneered the field of artificial intelligence, and he developed the idea what is now called the “Turing Test,” a test of a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behavior.

The UT Dallas ATEC program has a number of award winning research and development initiatives which seek to create virtual environments with virtual humans for applications in health care and education.

With colleague Dr. Judy LeFlore, associate professor at the University of Texas at Arlington College of Nursing, the ATEC team has developed a serious game to teach undergraduate nurses how to treat respiratory distress in infants, a health-care professional assessment program for a local hospital, and a full online nurse practitioner curriculum for neonates.

These projects have won a variety of awards, to include first place at the 11th International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) in the category of Emerging and Innovative Technologies and Methods in January 2011 and most recently in February 2012 a tie for first-place demonstration at the Eighth Annual Innovations in Health Science Education Conference, sponsored by the University of Texas Academy of Health Science Education.

These Virtual Texans from ATEC projects will be participating in the worldwide celebration Decode/Recode.

Decode/Recode is globally networked interactive event celebrating the centenary of Alan Turing’s birth, as part of the official opening of the University of Salford building at MediaCity, England on March 23. For this event ATEC will be connecting for 24 hours with 24 partners in a worldwide live digital media performance.