[PRL] hiring talk

Matthias Felleisen matthias at ccs.neu.edu
Thu Mar 19 09:31:26 EDT 2009


	
Please try to make it to this interview talk at 11 today. I promise  
it's the last time I'll ask this semester. -- Matthias



Begin forwarded message:

> From: Rachel Kalweit <rachelb at ccs.neu.edu>
> Date: March 19, 2009 8:40:12 AM EDT
> To: colloq <colloq at lists.ccs.neu.edu>
> Subject: [professors] [Colloq] REMINDER: Hiring Talk, TODAY,  
> Thursday, March 19, 11am - Alan  Mislove
>
>
>
> The College of Computer and Information Science presents a Hiring  
> Talk by:
> Alan Mislove, Rice University
>
> Thursday, March 19, 2009
> 11:00am in 366 West Village H
>
> Title:
> Leveraging Social Networks in Information Systems
>
> Abstract:
> Recently, online social networking sites have exploded in  
> popularity; numerous sites are dedicated to exchanging end-user  
> generated content, such as photos on Flickr, videos on YouTube, and  
> status updates on Twitter.  These sites represent a new type of  
> information system, where links between users (as opposed to links  
> between content items) are the primary manner in which information  
> is structured.  But, the enabling of all users to become publishers  
> is resulting in a deluge of data that only makes the fundamental  
> problems of finding relevant and trustworthy content even harder.   
> The social networks that these sites are based on, however, offer a  
> potential solution, because the relationships among users in the  
> social network may indicate the relevance and trustworthiness of  
> content that is contributed or endorsed by users.
>
> In this talk, I demonstrate three systems that leverage social  
> networks to solve some of the challenges facing information  
> systems.  First, I present Ostra, a novel system that prevents  
> unwanted communication by leveraging the relationships among users  
> in a social network.  Second, I present CommunityInfer, a system  
> that can automatically infer communities that exist in a social
> network, providing a natural basis for guiding information  
> dissemination and acquisition. Third, I briefly describe  
> PeerSpective, a system that helps users find relevant search  
> results by exploiting the shared interest in social network  
> communities.  Each of these systems has been evaluated on data from  
> real online social networks or in a deployment with real users.
>
> Host: Matthias Felleisen
>
>
>
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