Artificial Intelligence News Feed
Pedro Szekely and Team Win Best Paper
Szekely’s team wins Best Applied Paper award at IWSV.
Majority Illusion
ISIer Kristina Lerman’s research featured in WaPo’s “Wonkblog.”
Emilio Ferrara Joins ISI
Ferrara’s diverse research interests are at the nexus of network science, machine learning, and computational social science
Tal Hassner Joins ISI
Hassner’s research involves applications of machine learning techniques to pattern recognition and computer vision.
Your Friends are Cooler than You
Kristina Lerman explores the friendship paradox via social media data
Good Content Doesn’t Always Float to the Top
Kristina Lerman explains why lackluster content might get more recommendations than good on social media
Content Kingmaker – Quality or Webpage Position?
Webpage position reigns in peer recommendation of online content on sites like Reddit
Creating the Art Museum of the Future
The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) has partnered with Craig Knoblock and Pedro Szekely to create applications and educational tools that help engage the younger generation and bolster interest in the arts
A Better Search for Cures
In the past, genetics researchers had to find hundreds of people for every study they started. Now, the USC Information Sciences Institute has reduced that search to a few keystrokes.
On Twitter, More Friends Means Less (Effective) Information
Researchers find that, the more friends a user follows on Twitter, the less information they see and absorb