Gary Olson and Judy Olson will be guests of honor at a public symposium paying tribute to their pioneering work in the fields of human-computer interaction and computer supported cooperative work.

They are both faculty emeriti of the School of Information; Gary Olson also served as interim dean of the school from 1998 to 1999. The Olsons left UMSI in 2008 to take up Donald Bren professorships at the University of California, Irvine, but continued to be involved with UMSI.

The symposium schedule:

9:00 Welcome and Remarks by Thomas A. Finholt, Dean, and Daniel Atkins, Founding Dean of the School of Information

9:30 AM Thomas W. Malone, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

11:00 AM James Herbsleb, Carnegie Mellon University

2:00 PM Sara Kiesler, Carnegie Mellon University

3:30 PM Thomas A. Finholt, U-M School of Information

4:30 PM Gloria Mark, University of California, Irvine

These talks are free and open to the public; all are welcome to attend.