Workshop Organizers
Organizers
To contact the workshop organizers : nextmail11@liris.cnrs.fr
LIRIS, Université de Lyon |
 Dr. Gaëlle Recourcé CSO KWAGA, Paris | |
 M. Philippe Gilbert CEO Alinto, Lyon |
Keynote
Ian Smith
Everbread Limited, UK
Abstract
In this presentation, I will, with some luck and help from the audience, try to convince you that you should keep doing research on email behavior and trying to build better email tools. I will try to make this "call to arms" by showing you the terrible, perhaps even catastrophic, failures that have marked my career in the area of email research. "If you can't be a shining light of what to do, be a good example of what not to do!" The three key failures I will discuss are "making something 'invisible to the user' in an email context", "the mysterious, often discussed, but in fact non-existent problem of email overload", and "giving users a better choice" with email. With these three horrible disasters in mind, I'll argue that the audience should continue to fight the good fight in the battle (?) with email and its effects on organizations.
Short bio
Ian Smith hangs around in the center of Sofia in the general vicinity of the Everbread office and seems to do something vaguely related to technology, travel, search, algorithms, or something ; strangely, nobody has told him to go away. A couple of years back, he wandered into Transmutable Networks and acted like a CTO and a founder until told to leave Seattle entirely. His primary functions seem to be sitting in front of large radiation emitters, banging the home row keys, causing patterns of one and zeroes to be formed, and complaining loudly. This complaining is sometimes related to the [poor] quality of burritos available to him in eastern Europe, but more frequently is about the lack of an old-school, shotgun wedding between software development processes and the needs of actual users. Before his current loitering at Everbread, he lounged about in Seattle's U-district under the influence of Intel Research. Previously, he ran the idle loop at PARC's Computer Science Lab and in the far distant past he annoyed people terribly in the terminal rooms at Georgia Tech . Georgia Tech asked him to leave in 1998, PARC followed suit in 2003. He may, in fact, have no qualifications whatsoever.
Program Committee
- David Ascher CEO, Mozilla Messaging
- Vitor R. Carvalho, CMU, USA
- Andrew Lampert, CSIRO, Australia
- Adam Perer, IBM Research, USA
- Michal Laclavik, IISAS, Slovakia
- Ian Smith, Everbread Limited, UK
- Simon Scerri, DERI Galway, Ireland
- D. Sculley, Google, USA
- Simone Stumpf, EECS, Oregon State University, UK
- John Tang, Microsoft Research, USA
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