[UCI-Calit2] What does it Mean to be Literate in the Age of Google?

Anna Lynn Spitzer aspitzer at calit2.uci.edu
Mon Oct 15 09:00:57 PDT 2012


FRIDAY INFORMATICS SEMINAR

 

Title:                               What does it Mean to be Literate in
the Age of Google?

 

Speaker:                          Daniel Russell, senior research
scientist, Search Quality & User Happiness, Google

 

Time:                               3 p.m. (Refreshments will be served
in the 5th floor lobby at 4 p.m.)

 

Date:                               Friday, Oct. 19, 2012

 

Location:                         6011 Donald Bren Hall

 

 

 

ABSTRACT

 

What does it mean to be literate at a time when you can search billions
of texts in less than 300 milliseconds? Although you might think that
"literacy" is one of the great constants that transcends the ages, the
skills of a literate person have changed substantially over time as
texts and technology allow for new kinds of reading and understanding.
Knowing how to read is just the beginning of it -- knowing how to frame
a question, pose a query, how to interpret the texts you find, how to
organize and use the information you discover, how to understand your
metacognition -- these are all critical parts of being literate as well.
In this talk Russell will review what literacy is today, in the age of
Google, and show how some very surprising and unexpected skills will
turn out to be critical in the years ahead.

 

BIO

 

Daniel Russell is the U'ber Tech Lead for Search Quality and User
Happiness in Mountain View. He earned his PhD in computer science,
specializing in artificial intelligence until he realized that
magnifying and understanding human intelligence was his real passion.
Twenty years ago he foreswore AI in favor of HI, and enjoys teaching,
learning, running and music, preferably all in one day. He worked at
Xerox PARC before it was PARC.com, and was in the Advanced Technology
Group at Apple, where he wrote the first 100 web pages for www.Apple.com
<http://www.Apple.com> using SimpleText. He also worked at IBM and
briefly at a startup that developed tablet computers before the iPad.

 

 

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