The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. The ACM is a non-profit professional membership group,reporting nearly 110,000 student and professional members as of 2022. Its headquarters are in New York City.
Computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) is the study of how people utilize technology collaboratively,often towards a shared goal. CSCW addresses how computer systems can support collaborative activity and coordination. More specifically,the field of CSCW seeks to analyze and draw connections between currently understood human psychological and social behaviors and available collaborative tools,or groupware. Often the goal of CSCW is to help promote and utilize technology in a collaborative way,and help create new tools to succeed in that goal. These parallels allow CSCW research to inform future design patterns or assist in the development of entirely new tools.
A recommender system,or a recommendation system,is a subclass of information filtering system that provides suggestions for items that are most pertinent to a particular user. Recommender systems are particularly useful when an individual needs to choose an item from a potentially overwhelming number of items that a service may offer.
Web science is an emerging interdisciplinary field concerned with the study of large-scale socio-technical systems,particularly the World Wide Web. It considers the relationship between people and technology,the ways that society and technology co-constitute one another and the impact of this co-constitution on broader society. Web Science combines research from disciplines as diverse as sociology,computer science,economics,and mathematics.
Computer science education or computing education is the field of teaching and learning the discipline of computer science,and computational thinking. The field of computer science education encompasses a wide range of topics,from basic programming skills to advanced algorithm design and data analysis. It is a rapidly growing field that is essential to preparing students for careers in the technology industry and other fields that require computational skills.
GroupLens Research is a human–computer interaction research lab in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota,Twin Cities specializing in recommender systems and online communities. GroupLens also works with mobile and ubiquitous technologies,digital libraries,and local geographic information systems.
Urban computing is an interdisciplinary field which pertains to the study and application of computing technology in urban areas. This involves the application of wireless networks,sensors,computational power,and data to improve the quality of densely populated areas. Urban computing is the technological framework for smart cities.
SC,the International Conference for High Performance Computing,Networking,Storage and Analysis,is the annual conference established in 1988 by the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE Computer Society. In 2019,about 13,950 people participated overall;by 2022 attendance had rebounded to 11,830 both in-person and online. The not-for-profit conference is run by a committee of approximately 600 volunteers who spend roughly three years organizing each conference.
Value sensitive design (VSD) is a theoretically grounded approach to the design of technology that accounts for human values in a principled and comprehensive manner. VSD originated within the field of information systems design and human-computer interaction to address design issues within the fields by emphasizing the ethical values of direct and indirect stakeholders. It was developed by Batya Friedman and Peter Kahn at the University of Washington starting in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Later,in 2019,Batya Friedman and David Hendry wrote a book on this topic called "Value Sensitive Design:Shaping Technology with Moral Imagination". Value Sensitive Design takes human values into account in a well-defined matter throughout the whole process. Designs are developed using an investigation consisting of three phases:conceptual,empirical and technological. These investigations are intended to be iterative,allowing the designer to modify the design continuously.
Rayid Ghani is a Distinguished Career Professor in the Machine Learning Department and the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. Previously,he was the director of the Center for Data Science and Public Policy,research associate professor in the department of computer science,and a senior fellow at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. He was also the co-founder of Edgeflip,an analytics startup that grew out of the Obama 2012 Campaign,focused on social media products for non-profits,advocacy groups,and charities. Recently,it was announced that he will be leaving the University of Chicago and joining Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science and Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy.
Filippo Menczer is an American and Italian academic. He is a University Distinguished Professor and the Luddy Professor of Informatics and Computer Science at the Luddy School of Informatics,Computing,and Engineering,Indiana University. Menczer is the Director of the Observatory on Social Media,a research center where data scientists and journalists study the role of media and technology in society and build tools to analyze and counter disinformation and manipulation on social media. Menczer holds courtesy appointments in Cognitive Science and Physics,is a founding member and advisory council member of the IU Network Science Institute,a former director the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research,a senior research fellow of the Kinsey Institute,a fellow of the Center for Computer-Mediated Communication,and a former fellow of the Institute for Scientific Interchange in Turin,Italy. In 2020 he was named a Fellow of the ACM.
Lee Chean Chung is a Malaysian politician,researcher and environmental activist who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Petaling Jaya since November 2022. He served as Member of the Pahang State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Semambu from May 2013 to November 2022. He is a member of the People's Justice Party (PKR),a component party of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition. He has also served as the Communications Director of PKR since July 2022,Vice Chairman of PKR of Pahang since 2019,Division Chief of PH of Indera Mahkota since 2018 and Division Chief of PKR of Indera Mahkota since 2011. He also served as the Treasurer-General of PKR from December 2018 to July 2022,Youth Information Chief of PKR from 2015 to 2018,Vice Youth Chief of PKR of Petaling Jaya Utara from 2008 to 2012,Research Officer of the Office of the Leader of the Opposition from 2008 to 2011 as well as Member of the Board of Directors of Kuantan Port Authority in 2019.
The GESIS –Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences is the largest German infrastructure institute for the social sciences. It is headquartered in Mannheim,with a location in Cologne. With basic research-based services and consulting covering all levels of the scientific process,GESIS supports researchers in the social sciences. As of 2017,the president of GESIS is Christof Wolf.
Animal–computer interaction (ACI) is a field of research for the design and use of technology with,for and by animals covering different kinds of animals from wildlife,zoo and domesticated animals in different roles. It emerged from,and was heavily influenced by,the discipline of Human–computer interaction (HCI). As the field expanded,it has become increasingly multi-disciplinary,incorporating techniques and research from disciplines such as artificial intelligence (AI),requirements engineering (RE),and veterinary science.
Feminist HCI is a subfield of human-computer interaction (HCI) that applies feminist theory,critical theory and philosophy to social topics in HCI,including scientific objectivity,ethical values,data collection,data interpretation,reflexivity,and unintended consequences of HCI software. The term was originally used in 2010 by Shaowen Bardzell,and although the concept and original publication are widely cited,as of 2020 Bardzell's proposed frameworks have been rarely used since.
Cha Meeyoung,sometimes known as Mia,is an associate professor at KAIST in the School of Computing and a chief investigator in the Pioneer Research Center for Mathematical and Computational Sciences at the Institute for Basic Science. Her research focuses on network and data science with an emphasis on modeling,analyzing complex information propagation processes,machine learning-based computational social science,and deep learning. In June 2024,she will become the scientific director of the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy. She has served on the editorial boards of the journals PeerJ and ACM Transactions on Social Computing.
Tawanna Dillahunt is an American computer scientist and information scientist based at the University of Michigan School of Information. She runs the Social Innovations Group,a research group that designs,builds,and enhances technologies to solve real-world problems. Her research has been cited over 2,700 times according to Google Scholar.
Batya Friedman is an American professor in the University of Washington Information School. She is also an adjunct professor in the Paul G. Allen School Computer Science and Engineering and adjunct professor in the Department of Human-Centered Design and Engineering,where she directs the Value Sensitive Design Research Lab. She received her PhD in learning sciences from the University of California,Berkeley School of Education in 1988,and has an undergraduate degree from Berkeley in computer science and mathematics.
Matthias Grossglauser is a Swiss communication engineer. He is a professor of computer science at EPFL and co-director of the Information and Network Dynamics Laboratory (INDY) at EPFL's School of Computer and Communication Sciences School of Basic Sciences.
Learned sparse retrieval or sparse neural search is an approach to text search which uses a sparse vector representation of queries and documents. It borrows techniques both from lexical bag-of-words and vector embedding algorithms,and is claimed to perform better than either alone. The best-known sparse neural search systems are SPLADE and its successor SPLADE v2. Others include DeepCT,uniCOIL,EPIC,DeepImpact,TILDE and TILDEv2,Sparta,SPLADE-max,and DistilSPLADE-max.
