WikiSym 2009 is shaping up nicely; we’ll soon be providing a first glimpse at the program. For now, here are the confirmed speakers, more to follow:

• Fernanda Viegas, IBM, and Martin Wattenberg, IBM, on Many Eyes, Visualization, and Wikipedia
• Brion Vibber, CTO, Wikimedia Foundation, on Community Performance Optimization
• Barbara Liskov, MIT, presenting a lecture repeating her Turing Award acceptance speech (via OOPSLA)
• Tom Malone, MIT Sloan and Center for Collective Intelligence, on the Future of Work (via Onward!)

We are very excited to have these speakers present at WikiSym 2009!