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ECom-IComp Experts Address Series (2010-2011)
The ECom-IComp experts address series is designed primarily
to keep students and alumni of our programme up-to-date with the information
technology and electronic business trends around the world. We invite our
eminent overseas instructors to give the public address, which forms an
important part of the learning process, and also facilitates our programme
participants to network with local industry and business leaders. Instructors
can also present unusual topics they are passionate about or which they think
deserve more public attention.
Professor Karen Kemp
Independent Scholar, Hawaii
Professor, University of Southern California
Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, HKU |
21 June 2011 (Tuesday)
7pm - 8pm
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ADC202, 2/F
HKU SPACE
Admiralty Centre, 18 Harcourt Road, H.K |
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Location-based services (LBS) are the collection of data and technology
that drive popular applications such as in-car navigation, mapping of
nearby points of interest on cell phones, automatic notification of
weather hazards as they impact travel along a highway route,
location-based advertising, geosocial networking, and tracking of
inventory in warehouses. These applications leverage the user's or
object's physical location to locate and access additional relevant
information. LBS is enabled by the nexus of the Internet, wireless and
geospatial technology realms. While geospatial technology is perhaps the
least understood of these, geospatial content and services comprise the
majority of the value component in LBS. This address will explore some
of the key issues in the use of geospatial content on mobile devices and
in LBS in general. |
| Jointly organized by The
MSc(ECom&IComp) Programme Office & HKU SPACE |
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Professor Norman Sadeh
Director, Mobile Commerce Lab, Carnegie Mellon University
Director, e-Supply Chain Management Lab, Carnegie Mellon University
Co-Director, COS PhD Program, Carnegie Mellon University
Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, HKU |
2 June 2011 (Thursday)
7pm - 8pm
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ADC305, 3/F
HKU SPACE
Admiralty Centre, 18 Harcourt Road, H.K |
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Over the past few years, the explosion in smart phone ownership has also
given rise to a slew of mobile applications. Many of these applications
collect information about the location of their users, some to enhance
their functionality, others purely for the purpose of serving ads and
profiling their users. Most recently, it was revealed that Apple, Google
and Microsoft all collected location information of device owners but
had failed to effectively disclose their practice.
This presentation will provide an overview of mobile location privacy,
why it is important and how practices in this area have drastically
changed over the past couple of years. This will include looking at the
commercial forces at play, different ways in which information is
collected today as well as existing legal and regulatory provisions in
this space. Part of this lecture will also include the presentation of
results from a first in-depth study comparing location privacy attitudes
in the US and mainland China.
This talk is intended to move away from the sometimes simplistic views
aired in the press on this subject. Instead, it will leverage results of
many years of research at Carnegie Mellon and aim to paint a more
balanced view of what is going on. This includes explaining why location
privacy is a particularly challenging area and also a forerunner of many
more privacy debates to come. |
| Jointly organized by The
MSc(ECom&IComp) Programme Office & HKU SPACE |
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Professor Michael Shamos
Distinguished Career Professor, Institute for Software Research,
Carnegie Mellon University
Director, eBusiness MSIT degree program, Carnegie Mellon University
Director, Universal Library, Carnegie Mellon University
Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, HKU |
23 February (Wednesday)
7pm - 8pm
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ADC311, 3/F, Admiralty Learning Centre I
HKU SPACE
Admiralty Centre, 18 Harcourt Road, H.K |
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Facebook was founded in 2004. In September 2010, with over 500 million
members, it overtook Google as the most popular U.S. website, occupying
almost 10% of users' time online and valued at HKD 400 billion. In the
same month, Google, worth four times as much, surpassed 1 billion global
users, and their battle became fully joined.
Facebook is currently engaged in three wars: (1) a prolonged legal
conflict over the very origins of the company, partially dramatized in
the movie The Social Network; (2) the race for Web popularity with
Google; and (3) its quest to become the most exciting technology
employer.
Facebook fights these wars on a daily basis. They involve a complex
interaction among technology, law, executive recruiting, public opinion
and even international politics. This talk will focus on Facebook's
dominance strategy and the lawsuit brought against it by CEO Mark
Zuckerberg's fellow students from Harvard University. |
| Jointly organized by The
MSc(ECom&IComp) Programme Office & HKU SPACE |
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Mr. Peter Looms
Multimedia Senior Consultant, Danish Broadcasting Corporation
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, HKU |
8 December 2010 (Wednesday)
7pm - 8pm
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ADC202, 2/F, Admiralty Learning Centre I
HKU SPACE
Admiralty Centre, 18 Harcourt Road, H.K |
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Who decides what the main news stories are on the Web? When you buy a
smartphone, do you as a consumer have full control over which apps you
can download and buy? And when you buy a modern flat panel display to
watch TV, who decides what you can see on the receiver? The answers to
these questions may surprise you, as they are all related to
gatekeeping.
The metaphor of gatekeeping conjures up images of old walled cities and
a gate - sometimes more than one - built into the wall so that access to
and from the city could be controlled. Gatekeeping also exists in the
21st century in a less physical sense. It is a key process that
influences the passage of information and media all the way from their
creation to use by consumers.
Using examples from digital media such as television, the Web and apps
on smartphones, the speaker will explain what gatekeeping is, how
gatekeeping has become a mechanism that influences the way in which
consumers and providers of digital media interact with each other and
what implications gatekeeping has for the workings of our society. |
| Jointly organized by The
MSc(ECom&IComp) Programme Office & HKU SPACE |
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Professor Amy Shuen
Professor, Management Practice, CEIBS
Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, HKU |
11 November 2010 (Thursday)
7pm - 8pm
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Room 613, United Centre
Admiralty
Hong Kong |
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Is it time for Web 3.0 - or is Web 2.0 Strategy still making innovative
inroads in emerging areas of healthcare, government and smart planet?
This talk will focus on the key trends emerging for the next five years
of Web 2.0 strategy - since business, consumer and social networking
companies and applications worldwide have been given a huge boost by smartphones and mobile apps beyond the iPhone; virtual people, goods and
games making real money in the cloud for small and big businesses; and
new business models figuring out how to monetize and dynamically price
real-time sensor information for new knowledge services for healthcare,
government and smart planet. |
| Jointly organized by The
MSc(ECom&IComp) Programme Office & HKU SPACE |
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Professor Bebo White
Departmental Associate (Retired), Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
Stanford University
Adjunct Professor, University of San Francisco
Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, HKU |
13 September 2010 (Monday)
7pm - 8pm
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ADC314, 3/F, Admiralty Learning Centre I
HKU SPACE
Admiralty Centre, 18 Harcourt Road, H.K |
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The most convenient model of the World Wide Web is that of a network of
interconnected documents and applications. Despite the success of the
Web, this model suggests that data be constrained within pages or via
simple database queries. Such a document-centric Web is convenient for
human browsing, but difficult for machine processing. Alternatively,
concepts of Linked Open Data (LOD) suggest that the Web can also be
perceived as a globally distributed data space - the Web of Data. Such a
Web would support structured, SQL-like queries that could offer
interesting opportunities for the next generation of Web-based
applications. Data from different providers may be aggregated easily;
fragmentary information from multiple sources may be integrated to
achieve a more complete view. LOD builds upon the Semantic Web vision
that has been discussed for so many years. The talk will describe the
basic principles of LOD and give powerful examples of how it is
currently being used. |
| Jointly organized by The
MSc(ECom&IComp) Programme Office & HKU SPACE |
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