Congratulations to Jayant Venkatanathan who defended his PhD on March 17, 2015. His opponents were Luis Caricco (University of Lisbon) and Jean-Bernard Martens (Eindhoven University of Technology). Jayant’s thesis was entitled Examining the Interplay Between Universal Behavioural Tendencies, Online Social Networks and Social Capital. You can read more about his thesis in this post. Photo: Taken shortly after Jayant’s defense with the members of his jury.…
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Jakob Rogstadius defends PhD!
Congratulations to Jakob Rogstadius who defended his PhD on January 6, 2015. His opponents were Vincenzo Bollettino (Harvard University) and Rui Jose (University of Minho). Jakob’s thesis was entitled Enhancing Disaster Situational Awareness Through Scalable Curation of Social Media. You can read more about his thesis in this post. Photo: Taken shortly after Jakob’s defense with the members of his jury. From left: Maria…
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Honorable mention award at CHI 2014
Our paper entitled CHI 1994-2013: Mapping two decades of intellectual progress through co-word analysis has received an Honorable Mention award at the CHI 2014 conference. You can read an online summary of our paper, or find the paper in our publications. [bibtex key=Liu:Chi:2014]
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International distinction for CrisisTracker
Congratulations to Jakob Rogstadius for this great distinction. CrisisTracker, an open-source platform built in collaboration by the University of Oulu, the University of Madeira, IBM Research, and the Qatar Computing Research Institute, has won the “Tech Challenge” award by USAID and Humanity United. The Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention emerged in response to an initiative issued by US President Barack Obama, and…
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