The Wellesley Daily Shot highlighted the media and education impacts of TwitterTrails, the work of Takis Metaxas, Eni Mustafaraj, and several student researchers.
Month: December 2016
The Fall 2016 CS Colloquium series, organized by Hess Fellow Sravana Reddy, featured talks on everything from tools for social scientists and data scientists, computer security, natural language processing, and human-computer interaction.
Friday, Nov 4: Jordan Suchow, UC Berkeley
Experiment design, algorithm design, and automation in the behavioral and social sciences
Tuesday, Nov 8: Andrea Parker, Northeastern University
Community Wellness Informatics: Creating Technology for Health Equity
Friday, Nov 11: Abhi Shelat, Northeastern University
Secure Stable Matchings
Monday, Nov 14: Mor Naaman, Cornell Tech
Awareness, Coordination and Trust in the Peer Economy
Friday, Nov 18: Su Lin Blodgett ’15, UMass Amherst
Dialectal variation in social media: A case study of African-American English
Wednesday, Nov 30: Karen Livescu, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Continuous Vector Representations of (Spoken and Written) Words
Friday, Dec 9: Emma Tosch ’08, UMass Amherst
Programming Language and Systems Research for Data Scientists
In addition, the department hosted a panel on graduate school in computer science with Danae Metaxa-Kakavouli, graduate student in CS and HCI at Stanford University (yes you may recognize those last names!), and Vicky Zeamer MAS ’15, currently a student in the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program.
Marissa Avila ’07 led a discussion of the Where’s Wellesley app.
The new Wellesley CS Systems Reading Club, sponsored by Ashley DeFlumere, Ben Wood, and Christine Bassem (a.k.a. “ABC systems”) drew a range of students and faculty who met weekly to read and discuss classic or cutting-edge research papers in the area of computer systems, broadly defined. Each week, one or two students led discussion about the week’s paper. Topics included operating systems and virtualization, NASA hardware, quantum computing, distributed network protocols, reasoning about concurrency, voting system security, and more. Hopefully we will be back for more in future semesters!
Wellesley makers were featured in the Daily Shot.