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HCIL 30th Anniversary Lecture: Mor Naaman, "Using Social Media to Tell Stories"
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
11:00 a.m.
2119 Hornbake Bldg, South Wing
For More Information:
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/about/events/seminar-series.shtml
Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory
30th Anniversary Distinguished Lecturer Series
It's Time for Events: Telling The World's Stories from Social Media
Mor Naaman
Rutgers University
Abstract
To come.
Biography
Mor Naaman is an assistant professor at Rutgers University School of Communication and Information, where he runs the Social Media Information Lab. His research applies multidisciplinary methods to gain new insights about people and society from social media data, and to develop novel tools to make this data more accessible and usable in various settings. He is also a co-founder and CTO at Mahaya, a startup founded to extract the world's stories from social media data. Mor worked as a research scientist at Yahoo! Research Berkeley, and received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University. He is a recipient of a NSF Early Faculty CAREER Award, research awards from Google, Yahoo!, and Nokia, and three best paper awards.
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Come help the HCIL celebrate its 30th Anniversary with the 30th Anniversary Distinguished Lecturer Series. This series offers a common ground that can promote interdisciplinary discussion on a wide range of topics relating to Human-Computer Interaction. These lectures are free and open to the public. No reservations are needed.
For questions or comments, contact HCIL at hcil-info@cs.umd.edu
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