Recently, at the invitation of our school, Professor Dietmar Wolfram from University of Wisconsin visited our school and took part in the academic exchange activities. This activity was also part of the series activities of “Flame Cup”. 

In the afternoon of March 16^th, Professor Wolfram gave a lecture on “the Recognition Mode of Query Process Records in Web Searching”. The conference was chaired by teacher Zhang Ning from SIRM. Graduate Students from Information Science actively listened to him and had a lively discussion on relevant problems with professor.

In the afternoon of March 17^th, Professor Wolfram gave another speech on “How to judge the Academic Exchange Achievement in 21^st Century” in report room 301 in the information building. The lecture was chaired by Dean of our school, Zhao Guojun, while Professor An Xiaomi acted as interpreter.  

In the speech, Professor Wolfram showed his view on the evaluation problem of the academic exchange achievement from three aspects: the definition of academic exchange, the process of academic exchange and the method of evaluation of academic exchange. He introduced the citation analysis method in details and explained the connection and differences between the methods of quotation evaluation and quotationer evaluation by his analysis of the collected data.

Wang Dan, and teacher Zhangning discussed the future cooperation and communication between two schools with Professor Wolfram.

 

 

Dietmar Wolfram Ph.D.

Professor

School of Information Studies

University of Wisconsin — Milwaukee

 

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Library and Information Science,

University of Western Ontario , 1990

M.L.I.S. University of Western Ontario , 1987

B.Sc. History of Science and Computer Science,

University of Western Ontario , 1986

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Society for Information Science

and Technology (ASIST)

Association for Library and Information Science

Education (ALISE)

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Canadian Association for Information Science/Association

Canadienne des Sciences de l’Information (CAIS/ACSI)