Million Book Project 20th Anniversary Symposium
Join us as we celebrate 20 years of the Universal Digital Library's Million Book Project (August 23 - 26, 2021).
Aug 23, 2021
Zoom Link
Meeting ID: 996 7586 3986
Passcode: 281877
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 9:00AM ET | Raj Reddy | The Million Book Project: Past, Present and Future |
| 9:20AM ET | Robert Thibadeau | Early Experiments in Digital Libraries |
| 9:40AM ET | Michael Lesk | NSF and Digital Libraries |
| 10:00AM ET | Michael Shamos | The Value of Digital Libraries |
| 10:20AM ET | Gloriana St Clair Erika Linke |
Role of CMU Libraries in Digitization |
| 10:40AM ET | Panel Discussion | Future Directions |
Aug 24, 2021
Zoom Link
Meeting ID: 865 9765 8209
Passcode: 267036
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 9.05AM PT | Raj Reddy | History & Vision behind the Million Book Project |
| 9.15AM PT | Vint Cerf | Desirable Properties of Digital Libraries |
| 9.30AM PT | Liz Ridolfo | From both sides of the desk: UofT digitization history and perspectives |
| 9:45AM PT | Brewster Kahle | Internet Archive's Open Libraries: 5 Million online books Available to borrow |
| 10:05AM PT | Mike Furlough | Libraries, HathiTrust, and Access Transformed |
| 10.20AM PT | Moriel Schottlender | Helping Wikipedia fight misinformation and improve knowledge equity |
| 10.35AM PT | Panel Discussion | Future Directions |
Aug 25, 2021
Zoom Link
Meeting ID: 950 6988 7886
Passcode: 697117
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 9.30AM CST August 25/ 9.30PM ET August 24 | Yunhe Pan | From Digital Library to AI 2.0 |
| 9.55AM CST August 25/ 9.55PM ET August 24 | Wen Gao |
Multilingual Machine Translation and cross media search based on NLP large model |
| 10.20AM CST August 25/ 10.20PM ET August 24 | Yueting Zhuang | Impacts of MBP & CADAL: From a Research Perspective |
| 10.40AM CST August 25/ 10.40PM ET August 24 | Chen Huang | Twenty years in CADAL: What we achieved and what comes next |
Aug 26, 2021
Zoom Link
Meeting ID: 932 7586 0717
Passcode: 899634
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 7:00PM IST/9:30AM ET | Ajay Kumar Sawhney | |
| 7:20PM IST/ 9:50AM ET | Partha Pratim Chakraborty | National Digital Library of India - Building a National Asset |
| 7:40PM IST/10:10AM ET | V. N. Shukla | Multilingual Digital Library – NLP Way |
| 8:00PM IST/10:30AM ET | Rajeev Sangal | Technology Development Initiatives in Indian Languages: Important Role of DLI |
| 8:20PM IST/10:50AM ET | N Balakrishnan | DLI and Its Journey |
| 8:40PM IST/11:10AM ET | Panel Discussion | Future Directions |