(This is the second part of a report of the #LAK19 conference. See Part 1 here.) It was the only beginning of many fun conversations when the Main Conference kicked off on Wednesday! Our conference and program chairs delivered an exciting welcome message. LAK is becoming larger, Largest LAK ever & 60% attendees are 1st timers! - shared by conference chair @shoha99 #LAK19 pic.twitter.com/k7C02NGWol — Bodong Chen (@bod0ng) March 6, 2019
On 7th May 2015 I was invited to deliver a lunchtime keynote speech at the European Business Summit 2015 in Brussels. Belgium's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister introduced the talk. Click here for the accompanying powerpoint slides. The text of the talk follows below A Blueprint for Greece’s Recovery within a Consolidating Europe Brussels EBS2015 Keynote…
Carnegie Foundation President Anthony S. Bryk discusses the topic of “Advancing Quality in Continuous Improvement” in his keynote at the 2018 Carnegie Summit. Reflecting on seven diverse examples of quality improvement work in action, Bryk presents four key lessons illuminated by these efforts.
This is a journey through three attempts to improve observability which are used to highlight the difference between "better monitoring" and "observability".
In his keynote address to a packed house at OSCON 2002, Lawrence Lessig challenges the open source audience to get more involved in the political process. Read the complete transcript of Lawrence's...
By Simon Buckingham Shum on May 4th, 2019.
A heads-up that three collections will hit the streets this year focused on how we can design so that human needs and values are well and truly centre-stage in educational tools powered by data, analytics and AI.
There are several semantic sources that can be found in the Web that are either explicit, e.g. Wikipedia, or implicit, e.g. derived from Web usage data. Most of them are related to user generated content (UGC) or what is called today the Web 2.0. In this talk we show several applications of mining the wisdom of crowds behind UGC to improve search. We will show live demos to find relations in the Wikipedia or to improve image search as well as our current research in the topic. Our final goal is to produce a virtuous data feedback circuit to leverage the Web itself.
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger is the OII's Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation. His research focuses on the role of information in a networked economy.
H. Sack. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion, page 719--720. Republic and Canton of Geneva, Switzerland, International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee, (2015)
P. Brusilovsky. Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Workshop on Exploratory Search and Interactive Data Analytics at IUI'2017, page 49--50. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2017)
P. Brusilovsky. Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Workshop on Exploratory Search and Interactive Data Analytics at IUI'2017, page 49--50. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2017)