Sorin Adam Matei
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Visible Past at the Museums on the Web Conference

Sorin Adam Matei

Update: Event moved to Indianapolis on April 13-14. Contact us for details (See contact page).

Visible Past LogoAttendees to the Museums on the Web Conference are invited to attend the the pre-conference trip to West Lafayette. Purdue is a leader in the fields of information visualization, location-aware applications, and wireless communication. There you’ll experience an interactive location-aware environment, Visible Past, including interaction in a dedicated facility (CAVE) with virtual, 3D, fully immersive models of Ancient Rome, the Omana Beach Battlefield, and the Purdue Campus. Your tour will continue with a campus walk that supports a location–aware environment. You’ll be introduced to various methods of distributing information through cell phones and of linking information to specific locations. Finally, you’ll see the Envision Lab and the location-aware enabled E-Stadium, which will give you a chance to learn more about cutting edge research on location-aware and visualization techniques at Purdue. Lunch is included.

Sorin Adam Matei

Assistant Vice President for Partnerships in Strategic Defense Innnovation and Professor of Communication at Purdue University, Director of the FORCES initiative leads research teams that study the relationship between technological and social systems using big data, simulation, and mapping approaches. He published papers and articles in Journal of Communication, Communication Research, Information Society, National Interest, and Foreign Policy. He is the author or co-editor of several books. The most recent is Structural differentation in social media. He also co-edited Ethical Reasoning in Big Data,Transparency in social media and Roles, Trust, and Reputation in Social Media Knowledge Markets: Theory and Methods (Computational Social Sciences) , all three the product of the NSF funded KredibleNet project. Dr. Matei's teaching portfolio includes technology and strategy, online interaction, and digital media analytics classes. A former BBC World Service journalist, his contributions have been published in Esquire and several leading Romanian newspapers. In Romania, he is known for his books Boierii Mintii (The Mind Boyars), Idolii forului (Idols of the forum), and Idei de schimb (Spare ideas).

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