Events

David Ayman Shamma is a senior research scientist at Yahoo Labs, where he leads the HCI research group and is the scientific liaison to Flickr. His research investigates social multimedia computing and creativity.

InfoCamp is an “unconference” — an intimate seminar-style event for anybody interested in information-related topics, including user experience, data science, information architecture, interaction design, informatics, and information and communication technologies for development.

Machine learning and natural language processing provide a framework for extracting meaning from text — but what can they tell us about the people in those texts?

Dr. Jodi Schneider is a postdoctoral fellow at the National French Computer Science Research Institute.

“Your data will only be used in aggregated form.” — what does this statement mean, and why is it so often included in privacy policies? And does this practice actually protect your privacy?