Converging Online Education and Online Journalism
The Neiman Journalism Lab recently collected a number of opinions on interesting trends in online journalism. You can read the whole set here, but for those too lazy to click, here’s my own...
View ArticleKeynote at the European Semantic Web Conference Part 1: The State of End User...
I’ve just returned from the European Semantic Web Conference, where I gave a keynote talk on “The Semantic Web for End Users”. The slides are here . My talk addressed the problem that has interested...
View ArticleKeynote at ESWC Part 2: How the Semantic Web Can Help End Users
I’ve just returned from the European Semantic Web Conference, where I gave a keynote talk on “The Semantic Web for End Users”. My talk addressed the problem that has interested me for eighteen years:...
View ArticleKeynote at ESWC Part 3: What’s Wrong with Semantic Web Research, and Some...
I’ve just returned from the European Semantic Web Conference, where I gave a keynote talk on “The Semantic Web for End Users”. My talk addressed the problem that has interested me for eighteen years:...
View ArticleSemantic Web for End Users: Keynote from ESWC 2013 now Online
A final addendum to my series of three posts on the Semantic Web and End Users. The talk that I summarized in those posts is now online here, synchronized with the slides I presented. I think I did a...
View ArticleCan Academics Make a Difference in CS Research?
I don’t get them often, but by some statistical fluke I last summer I got invitations to and attended the faculty summits at Google, Microsoft, and Facebook within a period of two weeks. I’ll spoke...
View ArticleDemanding a Replicability Paragraph in Conference Submissions
This past month I finished reviewing 4 papers for CHI and 6 for the WWW conference. For CHI, 3 of the 4 papers described small, simple applications intended to test some user interface idea. For WWW,...
View ArticleShining some Sunlight on Conference Reviews
There’s ongoing discussion of our conference review process. Unsurprisingly it seems to spike around the time people get reviews of their own work. A lot of the griping tends to assert that reviewers...
View ArticleAllocating CHI Reviewers, 2014 Edition
As is now an annual tradition, I’ve performed my analysis of the allocation of reviewers for this year’s CHI conference. The data from the CHI review process suggests that we can reduce the number of...
View ArticleThoughts and Reflections from a 1st Time Reviewer
A few months ago, I received an email that asked me to serve on the ICWSM 2014 Program Committee. The role of PC member for this conference entails reading several submitted papers to the conference...
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