UT Arlington's Focus on Technology series is a premiere showcase for instructional, research, and workplace technology.
Focus on Technology presentations increase access to emerging technologies and technology ideas to all of the University's constituencies: students, faculty, staff, and the greater UT Arlington community.
Leaders in technology-centered business and industry, educational administrators and CIOs in the K-12 and higher education arenas, as well as senior managers and administrators in library and information services and distance education gather to share their insight.
Focus on Technology is organized jointly by the Center for Distance Education, the Office of Information Technology, and the UT Arlington Library and is sponsored by the Center for Distance Education, the UT Arlington Library, the Office of Information Technology, the Office of the President and the Office of the Provost.
Previous Events
- Focus on Technology - October 21, 2009 - Douglas Rushkoff "From Sputnik to MySpace: The New Education Race, and How to Win It"
- Focus on Technology4 - March 10, 2009 - Texas Digital Library: An Overview of Services
- Focus on Technology3 - March 4, 2009 - Peter Suber "What is Open Access to Science and Scholarship?
- Focus on Technology2 - February 2009 - Institutional Repositories (IR), Cyberinfrastructure, and Developments in Scholarly Communication with Clifford Lynch
- Focus on Technology 2008 - Electronic Spaces - with David Pogue
- 7th Annual Tech Fair - Intellectual Property in a Digital Age - with Peter Suber (2007)
- 6th Annual Tech Fair - Keep It Free - with Jeffrey Chester (2006)
- 5th Annual Tech Fair - Culture Remix - with Lawrence Lessig (2005)
- 4th Annual Tech Fair with Dr. Brian Hawkins (2004)
- 3rd Annual Tech Fair (2003)
Focus on Technology
Featuring Daniel M. Russell
How do Google Searchers Behave? Improving Search by Divining Intent
Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009
12:30 p.m.-1:45 p.m.
Rio Grande Ballroom
E.H. Hereford University Center
Lunch of hot dogs and bagels will
be served to the first 200 guests -- No Reservation Required!
Web search engines have an interest in understanding what users are trying to do. To a certain degree, this means discerning the intent of a search. In this talk, Russell will discuss what Google does to understand what users have in mind and the techniques used to analyze the data and outline the size and scope of the problem.
Russell is a research scientist at Google. He studies how people do their searches, trying to understand the most common traps and pathways to successful Google use.
Future Events:
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - "The Changing Landscape of Scholarly Communication in the Digital Age" featuring David Shulenberger