But also significant were the specialist health and training initiatives that took place alongside the games, such as a UNICEF-chaired information session on schools and young people with disabilities.
Their first job is to elect committee Chairs and Vice-Chairs - no information is available on candidates at the time of writing - indeed, these decisions are often not finalised until the last minute, prior to committee meetings.
(Horvitz has chaired the section on information, computing, and communication for AAAS, the publisher of Science Insider.
He served as Associate Editor of ACM TALLIP, ACL 2014 tutorial co-chair, ACL 2015 local arrangement co-chair, IJCAI 2016 senior PC, ACL 2017 area co-chair, EMNLP 2016 area co-chair, SIGHAN information officer, and the general secretary of the Computational Linguistics Technical Committee of Chinese Information Processing Society.
Peter Buš is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Chair of Information Architecture at ETH Zürich.
Chair: Steering Committee, Information Systems Trustworthiness, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences.
Ritu Agarwal is a professor and the Robert H. Smith Dean's Chair of Information Systems at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business and founder of its Center for Health Information and Decision Systems.
The School of Information and the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, seek a distinguished scholar and teacher with a research focus on the economics of information/data, broadly defined, for the Hal R. Varian Chair in Information Economics, a joint position between the two units.
This is what brought Professor Gerhard Schmitt, ETH Zurich chair of information architecture and senior vice president, ETH Global, to Singapore.
Philip S. Yu is Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago and also holds the Wexler Chair in Information and Technology.
Davenport, who holds the president's chair in information technology and management at Babson College, says the link between analytics and decision-making needs to be relearned: "What I've seen a lot with the proliferation of data and data warehouses and business intelligence systems is that the tie to actual decision-making has been lost.
