| PALO ALTO, Calif., March 25, 2009 -- CIOs, managers, researchers, academicians,
solution providers, and consultants will gather in California next month to explore
the explosion of information that has reached crisis proportions, discuss its
far-reaching impacts, and provide solutions. The Information Overload Research
Group (IORG) will hold its second annual conference April 26 - 28, at PARC, a
Xerox company, in Palo Alto.
Founded in 2007, IORG's mission is to build awareness of information overload
as the world's greatest challenge to knowledge worker productivity. According
to Basex, a knowledge economy research firm, information overload costs the
U.S. economy $900 billion per year. IORG members conduct research, define best
practices, contribute to the creation of solutions and resources, and help make
the business case for fighting information overload.
"By bringing together experts from such diverse backgrounds, we are creating
a powerful dialog on information overload," said Nathan Zeldes, president
and chairman of the board, IORG. "This event will set the stage for further
development of solutions to combat the extraordinary challenges we face from
today's information explosion."
Among the topics to be discussed are multitasking in the workplace, content
management and virtual assistants. Presenters include: Jonathan Spira, CEO and
chief analyst, Basex; Brigitte Ricou-Bellan, vice president of knowledge work,
Dow Jones; Max Christoff, executive director, Morgan Stanley; Dr Michael A.
Freed, program director, Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International;
Col. Peter Marksteiner, United States Air Force; Gloria Mark, Department of
Informatics, University of California, Irvine; Victoria Bellotti, principal
scientist and manager of socio-technical and interaction research , PARC; and
James ("Bo") Begole, principal scientist and manager of ubiquitous
computing research, PARC.
To learn more and register for the IORG conference, please visit: www.irogforum.org.
Xerox, Microsoft, Intel, IBM and other high tech leaders who are represented
in IORG, are committed to developing solutions to sort and categorize the flood
of electronic information that gushes every day from cell phones, e-mail, instant
messages and billions of printed pages worldwide.
About IORG
The Information Overload Research Group is a consortium of researchers, practitioners
and technologists from academia, corporations, solution vendors, and consultancies.
IORG is dedicated to reducing information overload, a problem that diminishes
the productivity and quality of life of knowledge workers worldwide. Its diverse
set of members and single focus provide thought leadership and access to cutting-edge
solutions and ideas, promote collaboration between industry and academia, and
help shape the science of combating information overload.
About PARC
PARC (Palo Alto Research Center Inc.), a Xerox company, works closely with clients
to discover, test, and deliver new business opportunities. Founded in 1970 and
incorporated in 2002 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Xerox, PARC is renowned
for the resulting innovations that make up today's distributed computing environment-
the graphical user interface, laser printing, and the Ethernet - and its record
of innovation in object-oriented programming, information visualization, and
ubiquitous computing.
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