Workshop: Emerging Configurations of the Virtual and the Real-Chicago, Fall 2010

技术中介的相互作用在科学和工程研究中发挥着越来越重要的作用。这项提议将举办一次讲习班，以确定和处理有关信息和通信技术的进步以及由此导致的人类与自然界脱离对信息科学研究和教育的影响的问题。拟议的研讨会将具有非常广泛的视野，并将来自五个不同群体的创造性和有远见的思想家聚集在一起。主办方将邀请来自信息学院的领导人、CI领域的关键思想家、IT世界的思想领袖、相关领域的代表以及来自少数群体服务机构的CI研究人员。讲习班将产生概述iSchool研究的知识前沿和讲习班产生的协同作用的论文，这些论文将在主要会议上发表，并在适当的期刊上发表。

Increasingly, technology mediated interactions play a significant role in science and engineering research. This proposal will manage a workshop to identify and address issues surrounding the impact of advances in information and communications technologies and the resulting human disengagement with the natural world on research and education in the information sciences. The proposed workshop will take a very broad view and bring together creative and visionary thinkers from five disparate constituencies. The organizers will invite leaders from information schools, key thinkers in CI, thought leaders from the IT worlds, representatives from cognate fields, and CI researchers from minority-serving institutions. The workshop will result in papers outlining the intellectual frontiers of iSchool research and synergies produced in the workshop, which will be presented at major conferences and published in appropriate journals.