Author: Kurt Luther
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Notable Paper Award at HCOMP 2017
Our paper on crowdsourced image geolocation and diagramming won the Notable Paper Award at HCOMP 2017. Congrats to Crowd Lab alums Rachel Kohler and John Purviance, co-authors of the paper, for this recognition. In the photo above, Dr. Luther receives the award certificate on behalf of his co-authors from Adam Kalai and Steven Dow (HCOMP…
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Second GroupSight workshop at HCOMP 2017
Dr. Luther, along with Danna Gurari (UT Austin), Genevieve Patterson (Brown University and Microsoft Research New England), and Steve Branson (Caltch), co-organized the second GroupSight Workshop on Human Computation for Image and Video Analysis at HCOMP 2017. The workshop featured two keynote speakers, Meredith Ringel Morris (Microsoft Research) and Walter Lasecki (University of Michigan), along…
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GraphSpace published in Bioinformatics journal
Our work on GraphSpace, an online hub where scientists can share network data, was published in Bioinformatics journal. The title of the article is, GraphSpace: stimulating interdisciplinary collaborations in network biology. The authors include Dr. Luther, his collaborator Dr. T.M. Murali, and Crowd Lab alum Divit Singh. Here’s the abstract for the article: Networks have…
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Serving as program co-chair for ACM Collective Intelligence 2018
Dr. Luther accepted an invitation to serve as program co-chair for ACM Collective Intelligence 2018, to be held July 7-8, 2018 in Zurich, Switzerland, and co-located with HCOMP 2018.
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Paper accepted for GroupSight workshop at HCOMP 2017
Our paper on GroundTruth, a system that allows experts to collaborate with crowds on image geolocation tasks, was accepted for the second GroupSight workshop at HCOMP 2017. Congratulations to Crowd Lab alumni Rachel Kohler and John Purviance, co-authors on the accepted paper. Here’s the abstract for the paper: Geolocation, the process of identifying the specific…
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Crowd sleuthing featured on local NPR affiliate
The Crowd Lab’s research on crowdsourced investigations was featured in an article, Crowd Sleuthing: Harnessing the Power of Crowds, by our local NPR affiliate, WVTF & Radio IQ. Dr. Luther is quoted multiple times discussing the lab’s Photo Sleuth and GroundTruth research projects, as well as general potential risks and benefits of crowd sleuthing. The…
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GraphSpace presented at BOSC 2017
Crowd Lab Ph.D. student Aditya Bharadwaj presented his work on GraphSpace at the 2017 Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) in Prague. Here’s a video of the presentation:
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Held transcribeathon at Blacksburg Public Library
Dr. Luther and Dr. Paul Quigley hosted a Fourth of July transcribeathon at Blacksburg Public Library to coincide with Independence Day weekend. Ph.D. candidate Nai-Ching Wang and computer science major Liyan Li, both Crowd Lab members, were also on hand to help new users from the local community get started with our Incite software and…
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Held reception for Mapping the Fourth exhibit
We held a well-attended reception at VT’s Newman Library for the opening of our exhibit for Mapping the Fourth of July in the Civil War Era. The exhibit, designed by Scott Fralin and his talented team at VT University Libraries, featured a kiosk to try our Incite software, colorful full-size panels and 3D elements showing…
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Incite featured on local NPR affiliates
WVTF & RADIO IQ, the NPR affiliate for Southwest Virginia, produced a radio segment and accompanying article about our Incite software and the Mapping the Fourth of July project. The story includes quotes by Dr. Luther and Mapping the Fourth project director Dr. Paul Quigley. Additionally, Richmond’s NPR affiliate produced a different radio segment and…