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The “soft deadline” for
registering for WACE is fast approaching. Marriott will be releasing the rooms they’re
holding at the government-approved rate potentially as early as this Friday, so
it’s highly recommended you register now. An agenda will be posted shortly, but in
lieu of that, I should tell you our invited speakers list currently includes
Dr. Jonathan Grudin, Dr. Steven Poltrock, and Prof. Roy Campbell, among others.
We’re looking forward to the
excellent talks from papers submissions and invited speakers alike, as well as
the open discussions that will come out of our Birds of a Feather sessions and
Town Hall meeting. Cheers, Patrick Bristow From: Patrick Bristow
[mailto:pbristow@microsoft.com] Hello All, The Fifth Annual
Workshop on Advanced Collaborative Environments is fast approaching, and registration is now OPEN. This promises to be a great year for
WACE, with two days of talks, a dinner cruise on Lake Washington Thursday night, and an
event-closing dinner on Friday night.
Friday dinner will be held at the Microsoft company store
& museum, and gift certificates
to the company store will be issued to attendees. And unless someone changes the
registration price before I send this email, it’s entirely likely that
the gift certificate will be worth more than the registration
fee itself! Also, you may all be excited to know that Jonathan Grudin
has agreed to give a keynote speech at the event. Dr. Grudin is a member of the ACM SIGCHI
CHI Academy, and recently spent seven years as editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions of Human-Computer Interaction. Needless to say, we’re honored
that he would speak at WACE, and I hope you’ll join us at the event. We’re still working on the rest of the invited
speakers, but I’ll be sure to send an update as we know more. Please don’t wait to register for WACE, though. We’ve reserved a block of rooms at
two nearby hotels, but Marriott won’t let
us keep the rooms past August 12th, so you may not be able to get
the great rate if you wait too long. Finally, we know that Seattle isn’t exactly as nice as
Nice, but with the beautiful summer weather in early September, you’re
sure to love the area. Be sure to
book an extra day to spend time in Seattle, if you haven’t before J. Register now at http://ci.uchicago.edu/wace/ We’ll see you there, Patrick Bristow WACE 2005 Program Chair --- |