December 12-14, 2013 – DISC2013 International Conference on Social Network Analysis in Daegu, South Korea

17NovMay 7, 2015 By Marc Smith

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I will speak this December 12-14 , 2013 at the DISC2013 International Conference on Social Network Analsysis at Yeungnam University in Daegu, South Korea – http://bit.ly/17LtWlo

My host is conference organizer Dr. Han Woo Park, director or the Webometrics Lab at Yeungnam University

After the conference I will travel to visit with other research groups in Korea focused on the study of social media. I will be traveling with a colleague, Dr. Jana Diesner, professor of information science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Schedule for December:
12-14 Asia Triple Helix Forum
16 Workshop at POSTECH with Dr. Woo-Sung Jung
17 Talk at KAIST with Dr. Il-Chul Moon
18 Workshop at Treum, Meeting with Dr. Gihong Yi
19 Sogang University and KISTEP

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October 9, 2012 – World Knowledge Forum – Seoul, Korea

14OctMay 7, 2015 By Marc Smith

I spoke at the 13th Annual World Knowledge Forum in Seoul, Korea on October 9th, 2012.

Here are photos from the trip which also included talks at Sogang University and the Samsung Economic Research Institute and Hallym University and a visit with the social media analysis company Treum.

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November 3, 2011: Seoul, South Korea – International Symposium on Convergence Technology (ConTech 2011)

22OctMay 7, 2015 By Marc Smith

I will speak at the International Symposium on Convergence Technology (ConTech 2011) – Smart & Humane World – on November 3rd in Seoul, South Korea.

Date: 2011 November 3 (Thurs)
Place: COEX Grand Ballroom, Seoul, Korea
Organized by Advanced Institutes of Convergence Technologies (AICT), Seoul National University (SNU)
In Cooperation with Ministry of Knowledge Economy, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, National Research Foundation of Korea, Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology (GSCST)
Symposium Chair : Choi, Yanghee (President, AICT)

Program
09:00~09:30 Registration
09:30~10:00 Opening Ceremony
Plenary Session : Smart & Humane World through Convergence
10:00~10:40 Speaker (TBD)
10:50~11:30 Speaker (TBD)
11:30~13:00 Lunch
Session 1 : Bio Convergence (Chair : Prof. Kim, Sunghoon)
Session 2 : IT Convergence (Chair : Dr. Lee, Manjai)
Session 3 : Appropriate Technology (Chair : Prof. Kang, Namjun)
13:00~15:00 Scott A. Strobel (Professor, Yale University)
Speaker Kevin Kim (Professor, University of Illinois)
Speaker Masaru Kitsuregawa (Professor, Tokyo University)
Speaker Haesun Park (Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology)
Speaker Marc Smith (Connected Action)
Speaker Sang-goo Lee (Professor, Seoul National University)
Speaker Haklae Kim (Samsung)
Speaker Raghu Ramakrishnan (Yahoo)

My slides: 20111103 con tech2011-marc smith

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I will also visit Professor Han Woo Park at YeungNam University (Wikipedia) in Daegu, South Korea to meet with his students in the Webometrics Institute program.

This will be my second trip to Korea, I was there last year for a related event. Pictures after the jump:

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November 8, 2010 – Seoul, Korea: 3rd International Conference on Digital Culture

06NovMay 7, 2015 By Marc Smith

On November 8th, 2010 I spoke in Seoul, Korea at the 3rd International Conference on Digital Culture on the topic of “Smart Society and Civic Culture“.

2010-November-8-NIA – Smart Society and Civic Culture – Marc Smith

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Several of my colleagues also spoke at the event, including Leslie Tkach-Kawasaki from the University of Tsukuba, Japan, Han Woo Park from YeoungNam University, Korea, George Barnett from the University of California, Davis and Robert Ackland from The Australian National University, AU.

Robert Ackland from The Australian National University, AU