Pioneering women in information science. Sponsored by SIG HFIS

Reports of the demise of the "user" have been greatly exaggerated: Dervin's Sense-Making and the methodological resuscitation of the user -- looking backwards, looking forward Sponsored by SIG/USE and SIG/HFIS

Howard Shevrin – Pioneering Investigator of Psychoanalytic Science

and the first interview give an interesting overview of Shevrin’s professional career. We learn how he first made contact with psychoanalysis in a military hospital in Oxford where he recovered from an injury he incurred when he was a soldier in Germany during World War 2. Reading Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams from the hospital library he was instantly fascinated and caught by what he re...

Report on a conference sponsored by the NATO SCIENCE COMMITTEE

Approaches to Artificial Intelligence Sponsored by the National Science Foundation

Women in Cognitive Science sponsored interactive panel discussion: Professional advancement, leadership and international collaboration

Women in Cognitive Science conducts panels at yearly meetings of several professional societies. Their goal is to increase attention to the situation of women cognitive scientists, to better understand the reasons for existing problems of under representation in key positions, and to provide a forum for professional development that encourages both junior and senior scientists to consider the w...