Crowd Intelligence Lab at Virginia Tech

Category: Software

  • Best Poster/Demo Award at HCOMP 2019

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    The Crowd Lab won the Best Poster/Demo Award at HCOMP 2019! Congratulations to Crowd Lab postdoc and team leader Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Ph.D. student Sukrit Venkatagiri, and undergraduate researchers David Mitchell and Chris Hurt. Their poster/demo was titled, “PairWise: Mitigating political bias in crowdsourced content moderation.” The Crowd Lab also won the Best Poster/Demo Award at…

  • Two posters/demos accepted for HCOMP 2019

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    The Crowd Lab had two posters/demos accepted for AAAI HCOMP 2019! Both of these papers involved substantial contributions from our summer REU interns, who will be attending the conference at Skamania Lodge, Washington, to present their work. It’s QuizTime: A study of online verification practices on Twitter was led by Crowd Lab Ph.D. student Sukrit…

  • Public launch of Civil War Photo Sleuth website

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    On August 1, we held our public launch party for the Civil War Photo Sleuth website at the National Archives Building in Washington, DC. Our team spent the day helping new users (in person and online) get signed up and contributing to the site. Dr. Luther and Military Images editor Ron Coddington gave brief remarks, and…

  • Best Poster/Demo Award at HCOMP 2018

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    Congratulations to Crowd Lab Ph.D. student Vikram Mohanty and computer science major David Thames for winning the inaugural Best Poster/Demo Award at HCOMP 2018 in Zurich, Switzerland. Their poster/demo was titled, “Are 1,000 Features Worth A Picture? Combining Crowdsourcing and Face Recognition to Identify Civil War Soldiers.”

  • Beta release of Photo Sleuth software in Gettysburg

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    The Civil War Photo Sleuth team released a beta version of our software for identifying unknown Civil War photos at the 45th Civil War Artifact and Collectibles Show in Gettysburg, PA. Our table was set up next to our partners at Military Images Magazine. The team was excited to help dozens of attendees sign up for…

  • Won Grand Prize in Microsoft Cloud AI Research Challenge

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    Congratulations to Crowd Lab Ph.D. student Vikram Mohanty and computer science major David Thames for winning the Grand Prize in the Microsoft Cloud AI Research Challenge. Their submission was titled, “Civil War Photo Sleuth” and the prize was $25,000.

  • The American Soldier in World War II launched on Zooniverse

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    On May 8, the anniversary of Victory in Europe (V-E) Day, we launched The American Soldier in World War II, a crowdsourced transcription project featured on the Zooniverse platform. This project is the result of a year-long collaboration between Virginia Tech’s History and Computer Science departments, University Libraries, the National Archives, and Zooniverse, with funding…

  • Debuted Civil War Photo Sleuth software in Gettysburg

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    Dr. Luther unveiled our new Civil War Photo Sleuth software to the public for the first time in historic Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The software uses crowdsourcing and face recognition to identify unknown people in photos from the American Civil War era. On Friday, Dr. Luther demonstrated the software at an invitation-only event for Civil War photography…

  • Mapping the Fourth of July goes public

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    Mapping the Fourth of July in the Civil War Era has launched! Mapping the Fourth is a crowdsourced digital archive that explores how Americans celebrated the Fourth of July while their nation was being torn apart. It is built with Incite, a plug-in developed by the Crowd Lab for the Omeka content management system. This project,…

  • 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…