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Name that tune.

Name that tune. .  Song title?  Performer(s)?. UGS 303 Knowing: Acquiring and Sharing Information in the Information Age. Randolph G. Bias 1/20/10. What are some things you know?. We have class today. At least one person knows her name. We go to UT. Abby’s b’day is tomorrow.

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Name that tune.

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  1. Name that tune.  Song title?  Performer(s)?

  2. UGS 303Knowing: Acquiring and Sharing Information in the Information Age Randolph G. Bias 1/20/10

  3. What are some things you know? • We have class today. • At least one person knows her name. • We go to UT. • Abby’s b’day is tomorrow. • Naomi’s b’day was yesterday. • Lauren knows where she is. • Some coffee would be great. • It is 2010. • Macs are better than PCs. • Cheryl Bias is beautiful.

  4. Ways of knowing • Authority method • Logic (new information from old) • Trial-and-error • Modeling • Intuition • Scientific method

  5. Who among you has heard of the UT-Austin School of Information? • Old “Graduate School of Library and Information Science” • Renamed in 2004. • No UG major. 300 master’s students. 30 doctoral students. • Still put out leading librarians. • Also produce “information scientists” of all ilk. • Since 99.xxx% of all information is digitized, it makes sense to have usability, human-computer interaction, information architecture in the iSchool.

  6. That’s where I come in • B.S. in psych from FSU • Ph.D. in cognitive psych from UT-Austin • Bell Labs for 3 years • IBM-Austin for 11 years • BMC Software for 5 years • Co-founded small usability consultancy • Previously adjunct faculty member at UT; Have taught at UT, Rutgers, Huston-Tillotson, (SW)TSU • Assoc. prof. in the UT School of Information since 2003. • Married to Cheryl Bias for 36 years. • Father of Travis and Drew Bias. • Scratch golfer. (OK, I made that one up.)

  7. Some important people in your life Course TA – Stacy Michaelsen

  8. Course TA – Garrett Stettler

  9. Michele Ostrow – UT Librarian

  10. OK . . . • . . . let’s go over the syllabus.

  11. See you Friday . . . • . . . in MAI 220B. • No homework except start reading Glut.

  12. Today’s song was “What’s on your mind (Pure energy)” by Information Society. • Why do you suppose we chose to play it before THIS class?

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