[agents] ICWSM 2008 early registration deadline February 15

[Tim Finin]

ICWSM 2008 Early Registration Deadline: Friday 15 February

The Second International Conference on Weblogs and Social
Media (ICWSM 2008) will be held March 30 - April 2, 2008 at the
Hilton in Seattle, Washington. Registration is now open and the
deadline to qualify for the early registration date is Friday,
February 15. The conference will bring together academic and
industrial practitioners to present and to discuss new research,
applications, thoughts and ideas that are shaping the future of
social media analysis. The conference aims to bring together
researchers from different subject areas including computer
science, linguistics, psychology, statistics, sociology,
multimedia and semantic web technologies.

The program includes an impressive line-up of invited speakers:
Bernardo Huberman (HP Labs), who will speak on "Social Dynamics
in the Age of the Web," David Sifry (Founder, Technorati,
Sputnik, and Linuxcare), and Brad Fitzpatrick (Google,
LiverJournal Founder). Two tutorials are planned,
including "Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis" by Jan
Wiebe (Univ. of Pittsburgh) and "Graph Mining Techniques for
Social Media Analysis" by Mary McGlohon and Christos
Faloutsos (CMU).

For more information about the conference and to register, please
visit the conference website [1] or online registration form [2].

[1] http://www.icwsm.org/2008/
[2] http://www.aaai.org/Forms/icwsm-registration-form.php