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We have published page with Best student paper award and James Chen Best Student Paper awards.

The conference is still a week ahead, but there are things to do NOW! Conference Navigator needs your input to gather the collective intelligence needed to match all Hypertext community members with sessions and colleagues that best fit their research interests. Please, help the community by adding your *AT LEAST FIVE conference papers* that are of most interest to you to your personal UMAP 2017 schedule (one of them could be yours, of course!). The provided data will be used for recommending similar papers for all attendees as well as for making a more efficient conference program.

Check the proceedings here: http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/cn3/proceedingswithauthors.php?conferenceID=149
Examine the program here: http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/cn3/legacy.php?conferenceID=149

To increase the chances that your own paper is properly recommended to the conference attendees, we are also asking you –as an author– to add *three most descriptive TAGS* to your paper in the system. Just find your paper in the schedule, access it, and add tags. The more tags your paper has, the more chances the attendees will have to discover it in the system. Let us also know if there are any errors in your paper’s data.

Finally, to make yourself and your past work more visible in the list of authors, consider adding more information about you to your PROFILE – your Twitter, Google Scholar, Mircosoft Academic Search, and Mendeley profiles. This will also provide a broader range of paper recommendations for you as well.

See the list of authors here: http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/cn3/getAuthor.php?type=ALL&conferenceID=149

Edit your profile: http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/cn3/EditProfile.php?conferenceID=149

Many authors and most of the attendees already have accounts in the Conference Navigator system. If you forgot your password, you can reset it on the login page.

http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/cn3/auth.php?conferenceID=149

If you are a new user, please, register at http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/cn3/auth.php?conferenceID=149

and click on a link that the system will send you by e-mail. Once you logged in and edited your profile, check the conference schedule or the list of accepted papers and add your favorite talks to your personal schedule.

We wil enable more system features as the data is ready.

On behalf of the Conference Navigator team,

UMAP 2017 Chairs

Yet, since this edition of UMAP takes place in Slovakia, the conference participants will encounter singing some more. Slovakia is very fond of its folklore. During many occassions, such as conferences, it is not unusual to see short musical or dance performances. UMAP 2017 will adhere to this custom.

At UMAP 2017, we will have the vocal group SKLO opening up the main conference. Then, at the conference, we will have our university folklore ensemble Technik to sing and dance for us.

We are pleased to inform, that the mayor of Bratislava, Mr. Ivo Nesrovnal, has gracefully taken the auspices over UMAP 2017. Mr. Nesrovnal will address the conference participants during the welcome drink event, which will be held in the Hall of Mirrors of the Primate’s Palace at Monday, July 10th.

A mayor’s decrete is available here.