One of the Western University campus newspapers, Western News, acknowledges community building efforts by a FIMS Professor, Dr. Sarah Roberts. “Faculty of Information and MediaView More
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Heritage Fair in London: Snapshots in Time
Heritage Fair. London: Snapshots in Time Saturday, February 13, 2016 (9 a.m. –3 p.m.) The Central London Public Library Branch at 251 Dundas St. FreeView More
Public Talk: Language of Deception: Looking at Tell-Tale Signs of Lying
Date: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Location: London Public Library, Central Branch, Stevenson & Hunt Room A, 251 Dundas Street,View More
SciFi-to-Life Mobile Virtual Assistant
“Search and natural language is how you will interact with them [mobile virtual assistants] and get information and services that you need in the moment,View More
Two Chatbots Chatting
There is a video of two Cleverbots chatting to each other: bit.ly/1ms5ezH. I am not so sure that the video is as deep and meaningfulView More
BBC Predicts 2016 Tech Trends: Cybersecurity Concerns
The BBC’s Technology of Business editor, Matthew Wall, pronounces cyersecurity to be the main issue that will be “vexing global business” for the year 2016,View More
Easier Translation in ICTs
On 16 December the TNW News announced that “Google will soon let you translate messages in other languages without switching apps“. “At today’s Google forView More
Multilingual Access to This Site
NO ENGLISH!? I mean, you can’t read English? Don’t let it be a barrier to accessing information on this website. It can now be automaticallyView More
MLIA Poster Session 2015
The Multilingual Information Access Course Poster Session was held on 8 December 2015 at FIMS, Western University, London, Canada. It was well-attended and a greatView More
Google News Labs
Watch Google News Lab Video In June 2015 Google announced its new initiative, the Google News Lab, as an effort to provide tools and resourcesView More