The 2024 Family History Technology Workshop will bring together developers, researchers, technology professionals, and users to discuss current and emerging family history technologies. The workshop will feature developer sessions, lightning talks, technical presentations and demos to showcase technologies that will impact the future of Family History and Genealogical Research.
You are invited to give a 10-15 minute talk about new tools, libraries, or languages, accompanied by a demo of what is being developed. Our emphasis is on novel approaches that will impact the future of family history technology.
To submit an idea for a developer talk, send us a 1-2 paragraph description of what you will cover. Include a short biographical statement and a link to your developer profile on GitHub or other relevant sites.
You are invited to give a 2-5 minute presentation on your latest work in family history technology. We welcome startups, new open source projects, work-in-progress, or strongly-held (but informative) opinions on what technology break-throughs are most needed and how this will impact the future of family history.
To submit an idea for a lightning talk, send us a one-paragraph description of what you will cover. Include a short biographical statement and a link to your product or web site and to your social media profile. Indicate whether you would also like to provide a demo in between sessions.
You are invited to give a 10-15 minute presentation on your research, including key ideas, algorithms and results. Topics could include big data, deep learning, data modeling, extraction, search, natural language processing, document processing, handwriting recognition, machine learning, expert systems, social networks, human interfaces, data visualization, mobile technologies, automated research, cloud computing, security, or other areas of computing as they relate to family history research. Research with demonstrated results will be given priority. Working demos are strongly encouraged.
To submit an idea for a research talk, send a 1-2 page extended abstract, including citations, similar to what you would submit to a technical conference in your field of study. Include a short biographical statement and a link to your personal web presence and/or social media profile.
Presenters should submit the above information by January 30, 2024 to fhtw@cs.byu.edu. Submissions will be reviewed by members of the program committee. To see presentations from previous years, visit fhtw.byu.edu.
Submissions due: 30 January 2024
Notification of Acceptance: 6 February 2024
Research Paper Final Version: 13 February 2024
Workshop: 27 February 2024
Program Chairs
Mark Clement, BYU
Joe Price, BYU
Website
Daniel Zappala, BYU