Crowd Intelligence Lab at Virginia Tech

Category: Funding

  • Received ICTAS Junior Faculty Award

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    Dr. Luther received an Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS) Junior Faculty Award. The award includes a two-year, $80,000 grant to support his lab’s research on using crowdsourcing and computer vision to identify people in historical and modern photographs. The co-PI on the grant is Prof. Paul Quigley of Virginia Tech’s History department.…

  • Received NEH grant to expand Incite to WW2 history

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    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…

  • NSF CAREER Award in VT News

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    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.

  • GraphCrowd featured in VT News

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    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.

  • Received NSF CAREER Award for expert-led crowdsourcing

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    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…

  • Received NSF grant to support graduate students at Creativity & Cognition conference

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    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.

  • Received NIH grant to study crowdsourced graph layouts

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    We received an NIH grant to study how crowdsourcing might be used to improve the layouts of biological graph visualizations. This project is a collaboration between Dr. Kurt Luther (MPI) and Dr. T.M. Murali (MPI) at Virginia Tech and Zooniverse, the world’s largest online citizen science portal. The grant is approximately $620,000 over two years and is part…

  • Wikimedia funds enhancements to ProveIt

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    The Wikimedia Foundation has awarded a grant to Felipe Schenone to make improvements to ProveIt. Dr. Luther led the team that developed ProveIt when he was at Georgia Tech. ProveIt is a Wikipedia gadget that provides a friendly user interface for managing references in Wikipedia articles. The gadget has since been integrated into the English-language Wikipedia…