WHAT'S GOING ON: ANSWERING QUESTIONS WITH WEB CORPORA

Pedro Szekely understands dark matter in an all-too- human, not cosmological, universe. Beginning in 2015, his work with Craig Knoblock on sophisticated, cloud-based analytics has generated substantial media attention for its ability to expose human trafficking hidden deeply online.

ISI POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLAR CHOSEN FOR PRESTIGIOUS PROGRAM

Yonatan Bisk, a postdoctoral scholar and research associate in ISI's Intelligent Systems Division, has been named to a novel program being offered by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

YIGAL ARENS RECEIVES DIGITAL GOVERNMENT HONOR

ISI Intelligent Systems Division Director Yigal Arens has been honored for distinguished service by the Digital Government Society (DGS), which fosters innovative deployment of technology and information to support public policy, upgrade government operations and engage citizens worldwide.

Arens was honored for his digital government contributions "...through sustained service and tireless dedication to the creation and long term viability of the professional academic society."

ISI RESEARCHERS RECOGNIZED FOR REPRODUCIBILITY

A 2013 journal paper co-authored by Information Sciences Institute Director of Knowledge Technologies Yolanda Gil and postdoctoral student Daniel Garijo is among a handful of articles chosen to represent the best of open-access publishing.

WHAT'S GOING ON: OF BOTS AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Emilio Ferrara's research on social bots was compelling even before the current Congressional investigations into likely Russian hacks surrounding the 2016 US presidential election.

WHAT'S GOING ON: HANDLING SENSOR CHANGES AND FAILURES

Craig Knoblock is best known for research on a large scale: semantic alignment of data in the widely used open-source tool called Karma, geospatial mapping techniques used by the Army in Iraq, collaboration on a commercial web data extraction platform, and recent, groundbreaking progress on international human trafficking with Pedro Szekely.

WHAT'S GOING ON: TEACHING DATA SCIENCE WITH DATA SCIENCE

TWITTER BOT ANALYSIS RECEIVES WIDE MEDIA COVERAGE

An analysis of Twitter bots led by ISI's Emilio Ferrara is garnering high-profile media coverage around the globe.

SPANISH NEWSPAPER FEATURES ISI FAKE BOTS ANALYSIS

Emilio Ferrara's work on fake Twitter bots was reported in the February 11, 2017 edition of El Periódico de Catalunya, a major Spanish newspaper based in Barcelona.

ISI ANALYSIS OF JIHADI TWEETS FEATURED BY MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW

MIT Technology Review covered work by Adam Badawy and Emilio Ferrara that used data mining to analyze Twitter messages by 25,000 ISIS supporters. In the February 10, 2017 issue, MIT TR describes Badawy and Ferrara's exploration of 1.9 million tweets from now-closed accounts.