Please come to a Web Science Lecture by Sayeed Choudhury!
The Data Conservancy:  A Web Science View of Data Curation
 
Klaus Building 1116
 
Abstract:

Please come to a Web Science Lecture by Felipe Ortega!
The Private Life of Wikipedia

Centergy 335
(75 5th St.)

Abstract:
Despite the growing attention that scientific community has devoted to Wikipedia, available research works rarely focus beyond the English
version. Thus, there was a need for broader studies to understand the dynamics and evolution of the Wikipedia, as a whole. "Wikipedia: A quantitative analysis" is a PhD. dissertation that finally closes this gap. It provides an empirical, side-by-side analysis of the top 10

danah will tell us informally about her new work, and we'll have a chance to chat and ask questions. Hope you can join us!

ABSTRACT
Everything2 is a user-generated encyclopedia started before Wikipedia,
but that has seen a declining membership since 2001. Started as a
spin-off of Slashdot, this site continues to generate quite a bit of
traffic, but has a hard time keeping new members, and old members
continue to leave for a variety of reasons. In this talk, I'll show
two examples of difficulty in socializing new members. First, I'll
show reactions to new users, and how those reactions have been
received. Second, I'll show an example of conflict between the site

"We're drowning in Multimedia. Hurray!!!!"
Malcolm Slaney
Yahoo! Research and Stanford CCRMA

Friday, March 13th, 11 am
TSRB 132

The wealth of data available on the Internet changes the way we think
about multimedia. Never before has there been so much multimedia data
available for training models and answering questions. But these new
riches bring with it a change in the problems we must think about. The
data is noisy and largely unlabeled --- we must make sense of it, often
returning an answer in hundreds of milliseconds. How do we understand

Title and abstract to come!

Jimmy Wales' recent Web Science lecture drew a crowd of over 400 students and faculty to the TSRB auditorium. Wales, the founder of Wikipedia and Wikia, spoke about the history and philosophy of these two organizations, and discussed his vision for the future of "free culture".

The Web Science Lecture Series will host a lecture by Mira Dontcheva (Adobe Systems) on Friday, February 20th at 3:00 PM in TSRB 127A.

Title: Interaction techniques for accessing, collecting, and sharing Web content
Speaker: Mira Dontcheva, Adobe Systems, Inc.
Time: 3:00-4:00 PM Friday, February 20th, 2009
Location: TSRB 127A

Our Web Science speaker the afternoon of Friday, February 13th, will be Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia. He will be speaking at 3:00 pm in the TSRB Ballroom. Hope to see you there!

We are glad to announce that our next Web Science Lecture Series speaker will be Prof. Lada Adamic from U Michigan. Lada is doing superb work in this emerging research field, and shaping the Web Science research agenda.

Her talk will be on Friday, November 14, 12:00-1:30, at MiRC 102. Pizza will be provided.