Hello from Stanford

Matt Smith and I will be at the AAAI 2008 Spring Symposium which is being held at Stanford University from now until Friday. We are attending the Social Information Processing session and will be presenting on a paper we co-authored with Christophe entitled Social Capital in the Blogosphere: A Case Study. The morning and afternoon sessions were great and I'll give a rundown later on. Matt will be presenting in about an hour and a half so I'll post about how that went and everything else we are learning here.

Spring Research Conference

The 22nd Annual Spring Research Conference for the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences is coming up on Saturday, March 15th. The current presentation schedule for the conference can be found here. Six members of the lab will be presenting research at the conference.

• Can a Computer Learn to do Genealogy? - Stephen Ivie
• Characterizing UCI Data Sets - Jun won Lee
• An Evaluation of Name, Location, and Date Comparison Metrics for Record Linkage - Yao Huang Lin
• Building Community around a Blog - Matthew Smith
• Social Capital in the Blogosphere - Nathan Purser
• Utilizing Stacking for Feature Reduction in Graph-Based Genealogical Entity Resolution - Stephen Ivie
• Keeping it Spinning: A Background Check on Virtual Storage Providers - Anne Roach

We're happy about our representation and it is shaping up to be a great conference.