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What: Heard a lot of hype about XML, but don't know what it means? Come to the next GSFC Webmasters meeting, where there will be an explanation of the XML "Revolution" by Mike Snyder, of WestLake Internet Training. When/Where: Tuesday, January 21, from 2 - 3 p.m. in the Building 3 Goett Auditorium. There will also be a raffle of one free day of West Lake training classes to one lucky attendee. For more info: http://webmaster.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Who: Dr. Gail Cynthia Christopher, Executive Director for Institute for Governement Innovation at Harvard JFK School of Government. Dr. Christopher earned an international reputation by creating and promoting holistic solutions to critical social concerns. Dr. Christopher has joined a list of distinguished public servants when elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. She's earned numerous awards, including Outstanding Woman of America, Leadership Greater Chicago Fellow and Outstanding African-American Woman. Dr. Christopher appeared as a guest commentator on Good Morning America, the Oprah Winfrey Show and The Financial News Network. She was prominently featured in two television documentaries that aired nationally: "Crisis on Federal Street" on PBS and "Education First" on CBS. This presentation explores the characteristics, qualities and coping strategies of high performing organizations and individuals though stories and humor and offers practical guidance for effectively navigating the waves of organizational change. When/Where: Wed, Jan. 22 in the bldg 3 Goett Auditorium at 10 a.m. For more info, visit: http://workforce.gsfc.nasa.gov/b2k.html
Information Science and Technology Colloquium Who: Dr. Luis Rocha, will talk about Extraction and Semi-metric Analysis of Social and Biological Networks. Dr. Rocha will describe their work on inferring relevant associations from, as well as characterizing, semi-metric distance graphs. The discussion is based on empirical evidence from different sources such as a large database of scientific publications associated with Active Recommendation Project at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, collection of newspaper articles about terrorism, a website devoted to interdisciplinary science, biomedical collections of publications, data from word free association experiments, and random distance graphs. When/Where: Wed., Jan 29 at 3:30 p.m. in the Bldg. 3 Goett Auditorium followed by a Q&A session. Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. courtesy of GEWA. For more info visit: http://ISandTColloq.gsfc.nasa.gov
Black History Month - Presentation by Mr. Asa Gordon Who: Mr. Asa, Executive Director, DIG will speak on "The Constitutional Mandate For Electoral Reform: The Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment" This lecture will present the historical and contemporary context of electoral reform by the enforcement of a reconstruction era constitutional provision originally intended to safeguard the electoral rights of formerly en-slaved Africans in their emergence to full American citizenship. In addition, this lecture will demonstrate the constitutional provision's relevance to the establishment of a broader political base for participatory democracy inclusive of all Americans in present day elections. All Goddard employees, civil servants and contractors are welcome to attend this event. When/Where: Thurs, January 30 in the Bldg. 3 Goett Auditorium from 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. For more
info: Leonard Brown on 6-5424, the EOPO 6-7348, or visit the
EOPO website at: http://eeo.gsfc.nasa.gov/events.html
Upcoming
Training January 2003 Cancelled Root Cause Analysis 2-days. Jan. 22-23. 8:30-4:30 Contact: Jeannine Womack 6-6118 or Matt Jarvis 6-4126.
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