Established in the fall of 2000, the IHC Noon Work-in-Progress Series is devoted to wide-ranging interdisciplinary projects currently pursued by scholars across the campus. It consists of informal presentations and discussion from 12 to 1 on selected afternoons. All interested faculty and students are welcome. Feel free to bring your lunch; the IHC will supply refreshments and the cookies. 

Terence Smith will offer an overview of the services provided by the Alexandria Digital Library, and current development of new services. The main body of the talk will focus on describing the development and use of a knowledge base of concepts and how concepts are modeled, accessed, illustrated, and used to create courses. A basis idea is that an instructor can use the knowledge base and collections of illustrative materials to create a personalized, which may be viewed as a trajectory through the space of concepts.

 Terence Smith is Professor of Computer Science and Director of Center for Computational Modeling and Systems at UCSB.