On Message with Ben Gross

The Fifth Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS 2008) is less than two weeks away. The conference includes presentations and papers from both academic and industrial researchers. CEAD is one of the only events focused on messaging research. The conference has been uniformly high quality in previous years and all papers from previous events are [...]

Texting4Health is a day-long selection of presentations and panels on how mobile text messaging (SMS) can be used to improve personal and public health. The event is hosted By Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). I attended the earlier Mobile Persuasion conference also hosted [...]

The fifth annual Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS 2008) will be held August 21-22, 2008 at the Silicon Valley offices of Microsoft Research in Mountain View, California. I have attended all of the prior conferences and I can highly recommend them for anyone interested messaging and messaging security research. The conference web site hosts [...]

A half day symposium titled “When Spam isn’t Spam: An Unfiltered Look at
Self-Regulation and the Law Behind E-mail” (

The second Office 2.0 conference will run from September 5-7, 2007 at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco. One day of Open Space style discussion that is open to the public will precede the two days of formal conference. This year there are four parallel tracks that include two demo tracks, an Enterprise 2.0 [...]

The third Federation for Identity and Cross-Credentialing Systems (FiXs) conference will be held from July 31-August 1 at the Hyatt Regency Monterey in Monterey, California. “This two-day conference and exhibition will bring together private and public sector stakeholders who are developing, implementing and maintaining global identity management systems.”

The ISPCON Fall 2007 conference will be held from October 16-18 at San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California. The deadline for speaker proposals is July 27th. ISPCON is a “conference and tradeshow for wired and wireless ISPs, CLECs, webhosts, VoIP providers and other Internet-based business professionals.”

The Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) 2007 will be held from May 14th through 16th 2007 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. User-centric identity is one of the main themes although the workshop covers identity broadly. Details and proposed sessions typically appear on the workshop site close to the event. The workshop is [...]

CHI 2007, will be held from April 28th through May 3rd, 2007 in San Jose, California. The annual conference on Computer-Human Interaction is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction (SIGCHI). The conference is a mixture researchers, practitioners, educators, and students from academia, industry, and government. The [...]