Exhibit of Icons at Seton Hall University Libraries-October 2009

Seton Hall University Libraries is hosting 2 events this fall, both of which are free and open to the public. The first is an exhibit of icons, many of which come from the wonderful collection of the Heritage Museum of the Eparchy of Passaic. The exhibit is titled, Windows to Heaven, and runs from September 14-October 16, 2009. There will be an opening reception, Wednesday, September 16th, 5-8 pm. Location of exhibit and reception: Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University Library, 400 South Orange Avenue, South Orange, NJ.



The second event is a symposium open to the public. It is titled Journey to the Holy Icon: some insights into the icon collection of the Heritage Museum of the Eparchy of Passaic and has been organized by Fr. Joseph Bertha, Ph.D., SUNY-Binghamton, Administrator, St. Nicholas Church, Yonkers/White Plains, New York and the University Libraries, Seton Hall University. It will take place Saturday, October 10th, 2009 from 10-12 a.m. in the Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University Library. Coffee/registration starts at 9:15 a.m.


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Marta M. Deyrup
973-275-2223

In Memoriam-Sergei Mikhalkov

29.08.2009 Сергей Михалков похоронен на Новодевичьем кладбище Легендарного поэта предали земле с соответствующими его высокому статусу военными почестями: когда гроб под звуки гимна России опускали в могилу, тишину Новодевичьего нарушили залпы артиллерийских орудий, а на Центральной... Читать дальше

Биљана "Биља" Крстић sings Macedonian Folk Song

Hello Readers,

I am back from my hiatus and here I am posting a beautiful Macedonian melody that was sung by Biljana Kristich (a well known Serbian singer). Enjoy!

The Malevich Society is pleased to announce its grant competition for the year 2009.

The Malevich Society is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing knowledge about the Russian artist Kazimir Malevich and his work.

In the belief that Malevich was a pioneer of modern art, and should be recognized for his key contributions to the history of Modernism, the Society awards grants to encourage research, writing, and other activities relating to his history and memory.

The Society welcomes applications from scholars of any nationality, and at various stages of their career. Graduate students are welcome to apply to the Society's grants after completing at least one year of research. Proposed projects should increase the understanding of Malevich and his work, or augment historical, biographical, or artistic information about Malevich and/or his artistic legacy. The Society also supports translations and the publication of relevant texts.

Application forms and instructions may be requested by telephone at 1-718-980-1805, by e-mail at malevichsociety@hotmail.com, or may be downloaded from the web-site: www.malevichsociety.org.

Deadline: September 30, 2009

 

Source:

Charlotte Douglas

douglas@nyu.edu

 

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Third International Workshop on Service Matchmaking and Resource Retrieval in the Semantic Web

CALL FOR PAPERS

SMR2-2009

 

Third International Workshop on

Service Matchmaking and Resource Retrieval in the Semantic Web

 

http://www-ags.dfki.uni-sb.de/~klusch/smr2-09/

 

  8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009)

October 25, 2009

Washington DC, USA

 

Aims & Scope:

 

One central challenge of service coordination in the Semantic Web is how to best relate requests for services with the services that are available.  This functionality is usually provided by matchmaking capabilities (which may themselves be deployed as services, brokers or middle agents) that select the services that are closest to a requested service on the basis of a declarative characterization of the capabilities of both service requested and services provided.

 

More generally, resource retrieval extends the notion of service matchmaking to the process of discovering any kind of resource (services, data, information, knowledge, even persons and organizations) for given settings, participating entities, and purposes. It is at the core of several scenarios in the Semantic Web area, spanning from Web services, Grid computing, and Peer-to-Peer computing, to applications such as e-commerce, human resource management, and social networking applications such as dating services.

 

The primary objective of this workshop is to bring together academic and industry researchers and industry practitioners who tackle semantic service matchmaking and discovery from
various points of view. In particular, we intend to build bridges to the software engineering and model-driven development communities in order to share requirements, technologies, and experiences that might be helpful in advancing the state of the art in semantic service matchmaking and resource retrieval.

 

Going to Practice: The Third Semantic Service Selection (S3) Contest

 

The SMR2 workshop also integrates the third edition of the open international contest on semantic service selection (S3)
executed in collaboration with the Semantic Web Service Challenge.  The S3 contest  provides the means and a forum for evaluating the retrieval performance of Semantic Web service matchmakers in terms of recall, precision, F1, response time etc., over given test collections based on the prominent semantic service formats such as OWL-S, WSML and the standard SA-WSDL.

 

Publication:

 

Accepted papers will be available online as a volume of CEUR proceedings. In addition, selected papers will be published in a special issue of the International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer
(STTT, Springer Verlag).

 

 

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

 

* Advanced searching of services and other resources in the Semantic Web

* Novel approaches to matchmaking and brokering in the Semantic Web, with a particular emphasis on Semantic Web services

* Model-driven semantic service engineering and matchmaking

* Semantic retrieval of resources and services in P2P and Grid networks

* Matchmaking in e-commerce scenarios: auctions, e-marketplaces, supply chains

* Matchmaking in other application scenarios: e-government, biopharma, etc.

* Composition planning of Semantic Web services

* Negotiation of Semantic Web services and resources

* Interleaving of discovery, composition, and negotiation of Semantic Web services

* Semantic Web services selection

* Formal description and handling of Semantic Web services, queries, and resources

* Non-functional service properties and their use for discovery (and composition)

* Trust issues of Semantic Web service discovery

* Prototypes and tools for Semantic Web services engineering

* Practical business and user-oriented issues and experiences of implementing SW service retrieval tools

* Experimental comparative evaluation of implemented SW service retrieval tools

 

 

Submissions :

Contributions to the workshop can be made as technical papers addressing different issues of service and resource matching. The papers should not be longer than 12 pages using the LNCS Style:
http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html

 

All contributions should be prepared in PDF format and should be submitted
through the workshop submission site at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smr22009

Important Dates:
August 11, 2009: Deadline for the submission of papers.
September 6, 2009: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection.
October 2, 2009: Camera ready copy submission.
October 25, 2009: OM-2009, Westfields Conference Center, Fairfax, near Washington DC., USA.

Organizing Committee:
Matthias Klusch (DFKI, Germany)

Alain Léger (France Telecom Research, France)

Tiziana Margaria (University of Potsdam, Germany)

David Martin (SRI International, USA)

Massimo Paolucci (NTT DoCoMo Research Europe, Germany)

 

Congratulations to Dr. Clara M. Chu

I dedicate this post to my friend, colleague and a former professor of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles - Dr. Clara M. Chu.

Congratulations to her on her new position as the chair and professor of the Department of Information Studies in the University of North Carolina in Greensboro where she continues her journey in the field of Information Studies, beginning August 3, 2009.

Following the myths and norms of American professionalism, I don't like to entertain the posts of personal emotive nature on this blog, but I believe that as an author, I reserve rights to post following the general exceptions to the accepted rule. I believe that the exceptions are made to provide an outlet to free expression when one has to laud the positive enormous and constructive efforts of the people in one's life.

In our lives, we see many people arriving and leaving without much notice. Some of these individuals check in when you least expect it, but they end up staying for good. The life becomes difficult without the presence of these individuals. The life becomes bearable because these individuals shield us –the humanity from excessive solar flares (and this is a metaphor). Some name these individuals to be fereshteh (a Persian term) or Malak (in Arabic), and I simply call them blessing of the fate. Remember, I am an impossibly grotesque fatalist in Russian Slavophile tradition. I am exaggerating. I am an Indian-American, so here I go again. Now, now, I should not take any positions for every civilization has its merits and culture as such enriches and rejuvenates through the dialogue and interaction with other cultures. Multiculturalism is one way to look at life and that is what Dr. Chu opened my eyes to. As a professor, she was always there for the students who needed her help and advice. Her selfless dedication to Information Studies will be missed by many students and other colleagues at UCLA. Once again, heartfelt congratulations to Clara!

Le dire una cosa mas que me has enseñado una mantra especial-Si se Puede! Gracias por todo! Y Hasta Luego! До свидания !

Call for Papers: Jewish Studies in the Soviet Union

The Center for Biblical and Jewish Studies at Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, invites paper-proposals for a conference on "Jewish Studies in the Soviet Union", to be held in Moscow on December 14-16, 2009.



Among the topics which will be considered at the conference are the following: * Jewish studies research institutions in the USSR * Yiddish-language higher education in the 1920s and 1930s* Hebraic and Semitic studies in the USSR* The Jewish Historical-Ethnographic Society under Soviet rule (until 1930), and theJewish Historical-Ethnographic Commission (1981-1987)* The Educational Activities of the Jewish National Movement (1970s to 1991)



We invite interested scholars to submit a 250-word proposal summarizing their paper by E-mail to: mailto:judaica_mark@mail.ru, prior to September 1, 2009.
Russian State University for the Humanities will provide housing and meals for all conference participants whose proposals are accepted.
The working languages of the conference will be Russian and English; Russian State University for the Humanities Press will publish a volume of the conference proceedings.We look forward to welcoming presenters, participants and guests to the conference. For further information on the Center for Biblical Studies, visit our website www.cbjs.rggu.ru



The Organizing Committee
Professor Natalya Basovskaya (RSUH)
Professor David Fishman (JTS)
Dr. Igor Krupnik (Smithsonian)
Professor Mark Kupovetsky (RSUH)



Source:
Mark Kupovetsky
Executive Director
Centre for Biblical and Jewish Studies
Russian State University for the Humanities
Miusskaya sq. 6
125993 Moscow
Russia
Tel.: +7 495 2506470
Fax: +7 495 2506758
judaica_mark@mail.ru
www.cbjs.rggu.ru