Sunday, January 07, 2007

Call for Papers: IPCC 2007 in Seattle (IEEE Professional Communication Society - ENGINEERING THE FUTURE OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION)

Call for Papers: IPCC 2007 in Seattle (IEEE Professional Communication Society - ENGINEERING THE FUTURE OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION)
October 1-3, 2007

Join a distinguished group of researchers and industry practitioners for an energetic and friendly conference that encompasses all aspects of professional and technical communication in a world of rapidly changing information and communication technology. Help us look back on 50 years of human communication and look ahead to the next 50!

The keynote speaker will be Ray Kurzweil, famed inventor and futurist (and, among many other achievements, winner of the 1999 National Medal of Technology, will be a keynote speaker at the conference in Seattle. (See Kurzweil's bio.)

Send 1-2 page proposals by January 24, 2007 to: Professor David K. Farkas at farkas@u.washington.edu.

Suggested topic areas:
-Usability
-Information design
-Tools/Techniques for collaboration
-Content management/Document technologies
-Software user assistance
-Managing information & communication systems
-Cross-cultural communication
-Engineering management
-Teaching & training
-Visual/Multimedia communication
-Health/Environmental communication
-Information & communication security

For more information visit:
http://r.vresp.com/?IEEEPCS/c8c1128123/811031/b6823ef2eb/b551bba