Author: Kurt Luther
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Two papers accepted for CSCW 2019
The Crowd Lab had two papers accepted for the upcoming ACM Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2019) conference in Austin, TX, USA, November 9-13, 2019. The conference had a 31% acceptance rate. Ph.D. student Sukrit Venkatagiri will be presenting “GroundTruth: Augmenting expert image geolocation with crowdsourcing and shared representations,” co-authored with Jacob…
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Summer internships at Dataminr and Microsoft Research
Congratulations to Crowd Lab Ph.D. students Vikram Mohanty and Tianyi Li for accepting summer research internships! Tianyi will be interning at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA, and Vikram will be interning at Dataminr in New York City.
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Welcome, Summer 2019 interns!
We are excited to welcome three undergraduate interns to the Crowd Lab’s Arlington location for Summer 2019. Their research is funded by the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program of the National Science Foundation. Efua Akonor is a Computer Science major at Wellesley College. She will be working on the GroundTruth project. David Mitchell is…
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Presented at ACWM grand opening
Dr. Luther gave an invited presentation on Civil War Photo Sleuth at the grand opening celebrations of the American Civil War Museum in Richmond, VA, on May 4. He was one of eight Emerging Scholars invited to speak. The museum described the event and program as follows: On Saturday, May 4, 2019, the American Civil…
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Received Purdue Outstanding Technology Alumni Award
Dr. Luther was honored with the Outstanding Technology Alumni Award from his alma mater, Purdue Polytechnic Institute (formerly Purdue University’s College of Technology), at an awards event at Purdue University on April 26. According to the press release, recipients of the Outstanding Technology Alumni Award “have made significant and recognized impacts in their fields, and…
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Participated in Intelligence Studies Consortium panel
Dr. Luther joined Prof. Aaron Brantly (VT Political Science), Prof. Chad Levinson (VT Government and International Affairs), and moderator Ms. Christine Callsen (VT Hume Center) on a panel titled, “Social Computing and Its Impact on Intelligence,” at the Emerging Trends: New Tools, Threats and Thinking symposium. The event was sponsored by the National Capital Region…
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Accepted to CSST 2019 Summer Research Institute
Congratulations to Crowd Lab postdoc Jake Thebault-Spieker for his acceptance to the NSF-funded Consortium for the Science of Sociotechnical Systems (CSST 2019) Summer Research Institute at Rutgers University in June 2019.
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Presented at IUPUI Computer Science Seminar
Dr. Luther gave an invited presentation, titled “Solving Photo Mysteries with Expert-Led Crowdsourcing,” at the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Department of Computer & Information Science Seminar on April 19. Here is the abstract for the presentation: Investigators in domains such as journalism, intelligence analysis, and human rights advocacy frequently analyze photographs of questionable or…
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Participated in Return on Creativity panel
Dr. Luther joined Prof. Ben Knapp (VT Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology) and Ms. Natalie Hart (VT Advancement) for a panel titled, “Return on Creativity: From Creativity to Innovation.” The event was sponsored by Arlington Economic Development (AED) and held at the Virginia Tech Research Center-Arlington on April 4. The abstract for the panel…
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Serving on CSCW 2019 and IUI 2020 committees
Two Crowd Lab members have accepted new professional service roles to help organize upcoming conferences. Congratulations to postdoc Jake Thebault-Spieker for accepting an invitation to serve as CSCW 2019 Proceedings and Publications Co-Chair, and Ph.D. student Tianyi Li for accepting an invitation to serve as IUI 2020 Posters/Demos Chair.