Conferences & Events
June 6, 2007
Salt Lake City, Utah
RadioWest (NPR) Interview "Untangling the Web" with Joe Firmage.
Perhaps the most compelling discussions of this project and why it matters.
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May 18, 2007
Salt Lake City, UtahUtah Public Television, Utah Now airs interview with ManyOne CEO Joe Firmage
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April 27, 2007
Washington, D.C.The Earth Portal, an unnprecedented public web site for tracking climate change and the environment, is officially launch to the general public. See press release for details.
April 26, 2007
Washington, D.C.In a major press event at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., world leading scientists, the Environmental Information Coalition and ManyOne together announce the launch of the Earth Portal.
September 7-9, 2006
Salt Lake City, UtahThe Thinking Ahead Symposium is a three-day interdisciplinary forum, by invitation only, which provides an opportunity for librarians, politicians, community leaders, citizens and entrepreneurs from all over the country to engage in meaningful dialogue about the future of our libraries and how they can best identify and address community needs.
Technology has allowed libraries to change the way they deliver traditional library services making them more important than ever to our communities. They address and advance issues such as life-long learning and intellectual freedom.
Joe Firmage will present the Digital Universe interface and taxonomy as a solution to the problems created by the exponential growth of the current index-based search engines. Joe will also discuss the potential role of libraries as both institutions as well as public institutions, in the growth of the Digital Universe. A focus group will follow his presentation.
September 6, 2006: 4 - 7 p.m.
Salt Lake City, UtahSalt Lake City Downtown Library
Joe Firmage will present the Digital Universe then guide a discussion about the integration of new web-based technologies, information resources, and public exhibit interfaces for community based constituencies. Participants will included state and local leaders of public non-governmental cultural and community-based organizations.
August 27th - 30th, 2006
Auckland, New ZealandDigital Earth Summit on Sustainability
Launched in 1998 by former United States Vice President Al Gore, Digital Earth is a global initiative aimed at harnessing the world's data and information resources to develop a virtual 3-D model of Earth in order to monitor, measure, and forecast natural and human activity on the planet.
The Digital earth Summit on Sustainability represents the most significant scientific gathering ever held in this part of the world. Its focus will be on the most important issue facing us - long-term survival. The Summit will focus on how technology and the data it provides can best be applied to achieve sustainability in all sectors of society and the environment.
Joe Firmage will be received as an honorary guest of Auckland's Mayor Hubbard. As a keynote speaker at the summit, Joe will share the larger vision of a digital replica of nature, with both taxonomy and content evolved by experts as the central theme, with the initial phase of Earth portal taxonomy and Encyclopedia of Earth as the first concrete examples.
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