Author: Kurt Luther
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Received NEH grant to expand Incite to WW2 history
Dr. Luther is Co-PI for a new award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Humanities Collections and Reference Resources program. The title of the project is “The American Soldier Collaborative Digital Archive.” The one-year, $50,000 award will support planning to expand our Incite software, originally developed for crowdsourced Civil War history, to the new domain of…
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Serving on CSCW 2018 Program Committee
Dr. Luther accepted an invitation to serve on the program committee for the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2018). He previously served on the CSCW program committees for 2015 and 2016.
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NSF CAREER Award in VT News
Dr. Luther’s NSF CAREER Award, a five-year grant to study expert-led crowdsourcing and build a platform for crowdsourced photo investigations called CrowdSleuth, was covered in a press release by Virginia Tech News. This news story appeared on the home page for vt.edu and the VT College of Engineering.
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Poster accepted for Collective Intelligence 2017
Some preliminary results from our interview study of crowdsourced image geolocation will be be presented as a poster at Collective Intelligence 2017 in New York City. Rachel Kohler, a computer science master’s student in the Crowd Lab, is leading this study, with assistance from Caroline Ritchey, an undergraduate double-majoring in national security and history.
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GraphCrowd featured in VT News
Virginia Tech News published a press release featuring GraphCrowd and the NIH Big Data to Knowledge grant led by Dr. Kurt Luther and Dr. T.M. Murali. This news story appeared on the home page for vt.edu and the VT College of Engineering.
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Incite featured on History@Work blog
Our Mapping the Fourth of July project and Incite software were featured in the Project Showcase of History@Work, the official blog of the National Council on Public History (NCPH).
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Received NSF CAREER Award for expert-led crowdsourcing
Dr. Luther received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his proposal, titled, Transforming Investigative Science and Practice with Expert-Led Crowdsourcing. This program “offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in…
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Received NSF grant to support graduate students at Creativity & Cognition conference
The National Science Foundation awarded a grant of $25,252 to Dr. Luther to support the Graduate Student Symposium at the ACM Creativity & Cognition 2017 conference in Singapore. Dr. Luther and Dr. Elizabeth Churchill (Google) are co-chairing the symposium.
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Presented Mapping the Fourth of July at NCSS conference
Dr. Paul Quigley and Dr. David Hicks presented our Mapping the Fourth of July project and Incite software at the 96th annual conference of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) in Washington, D.C. The title of our presentation was, “New Directions For Inquiry: Citizen Student Archivists Crowdsourcing the Past.”
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Presented GraphCrowd talk and poster at NIH BD2K All Hands meeting
Dr. T.M. Murali presented our GraphCrowd research at the 2016 NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) All Hands Meeting in Bethesda, MD. This is an annual invitation-only meeting for researchers funded by the NIH BD2K initiative. We had both a poster and a presentation accepted; the poster can be viewed on F1000Research.