Month: March 2019

  • More press for Civil War Photo Sleuth

    Our Civil War Photo Sleuth project continues to attract press and media attention. Here is a roundup of additional articles since the last post: Smithsonian: The Computer Scientist Who Wants to Put a Name to Every Face in Civil War Photographs Roanoke Times: A Civil War find of a high tech kind Fox News: AI…

  • Best Paper Award at IUI 2019

    Our paper, “Photo Sleuth: Combining Human Expertise and Face Recognition to Identify Historical Portraits,” received the Best Paper Award at IUI 2019 in Los Angeles, CA. This award recognized the best paper among 282 submissions. Congratulations to lead author Vikram Mohanty (CS Ph.D. student), David Thames (CS undergraduate), and Sneha Mehta (CS Ph.D. student). A…

  • Presented at Civil War Photo Talks

    Dr. Luther gave an invited presentation, titled “Civil War Photo Sleuthing: Past, Present, and Future” at Civil War Photo Talks in Arlington, VA, co-sponsored by Military Images Magazine and Civil War Faces. Other invited speakers included Ann Shumard, National Portrait Gallery; Micah Messenheimer, Library of Congress; Bryan Cheeseboro, National Archives; and Rick Brown, Military Images.…

  • Paper accepted to CHI 2019 HCI + AI workshop

    Our paper, “Flud: a hybrid crowd-algorithm approach for visualizing biological networks,” was accepted to the CHI 2019 workshop titled, Where is the Human? Bridging the Gap Between AI and HCI, in Glasgow, Scotland. Congratulations to Crowd Lab co-authors Aditya Bharadwaj (Ph.D. student) and David Gwizdala (undergraduate researcher), as well as Yoonjin Kim and Aditya’s co-advisor,…