From the Interdisciplinary Conference of AHLiST 2010 Conference IS/IT Program Chair

The Association of History, Literature, Science and Technology (AHLiST) 2010 is an organization established in 2008 by interdisciplinary researchers from the Cambridge University, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad Nebrija, Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, Purdue University, Biblioteca Histórica Marqués de Valdecilla and the company DENODO technologies. The initial goals of this organization were for these interdisciplinary researchers to create an automatic transcription of manuscripts with Artificial Intelligence. The AHLiST organizers and researchers held its first interdisciplinary conference from June 23 to June 25, 2010 in Madrid, Spain to offer exciting opportunities for researchers and practitioners from different disciplines (Communications, Education, History, Literature, Science, Sociology, and IT/IS) to share research ideas, to promote future scholarly work, and to learn relationships among different disciplines. It was a true globalized and multi-disciplined conference that offers networking with researchers in different areas, while enjoying the surroundings in Spain. For the 2010, nine tracks with 50 panels of different themes included 140 quality presentations including case studies, research progress, and completed papers. Only selected papers went through a blind review process with 2 or 3 reviewers for each paper. The conference was organized by Purdue University, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad Nebrija, and St. Louis University in Madrid.