Shawn Walker successfully defended his dissertation titled, The Complexity of Collecting Digital and Social Media Data in Ephemeral Contexts, this week! His work advances the field of information science by empirically investigating how the ephemeral nature of social media data, metadata, and...

Jordan Eschler successfully defended her PhD dissertation titled, “Designing for the Dynamic Needs of Young Adult Cancer Survivors”! Not only did she present her work with young adult cancer survivors, but she also highlighted the substantial contributions her work, including: improved...

Kristen Shinohara successfully defended her dissertation titled, Design for Social Accessibility: Incorporating Social Factors in the Design of Accessible Technologies! Her topic of Social Accessibility is a concept she initiated that examines how to effectively incorporate social factors into...

Jin Ha Lee, Stephen Keating, and Travis Windleharth had a paper accepted to iPres 2017 (14th International Conference on Digital Preservation) titled, Challenges in Preserving Augmented Reality Games: A Case Study of Ingress and Pokémon GO. ... Negin Dahya has publication news to share: Along...

Jin Ha Lee, David Hendry, Jason Yip, Helene Williams, Liz Mills, along with Rachel Ivy Clarke of Syracuse University, were awarded an IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program award for their project “Designing Future Library Leaders.” A total of $4200 will come to the iSchool for this...

Michelle Martin, Liz Mills and Katie Campana have been awarded a $49,797 IMLS National Leadership Grants for Libraries. Their proposal titled, Project LOCAL: Library Outreach as a Community Anchor in Learning, will reach families with children under the age of twelve in underserved communities not...

Jason Yip made FINALIST for the UW Distinguished Teaching Award 2017. Way to go, Professor Yip! He also had a workshop accepted to the 2017 IDC (16th Interaction Design and Children Conference), to be held at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California from June 27th to 30th. His is the Workshop...

Jacob O. Wobbrock gave an invited research talk on Ability-Based Design at the University of Michigan School of Information on March 21, 2017. The talk was part of UM’s MISC speaker series. The MISC Group is a multi-departmental group patterned directly after our DUB Group. Wobbrock also...

Bill Howe, Dominik Moritz, Daniel Halperin, Ed Lazowska, and Shrainik Jain, a Ph.D. student in CSE who led the project, won one of four awards for reproducibility for their SIGMOD paper, SQLShare: Results from a Multi-Year SQL-as-a-Service Experiment. ... Susan Hildreth’s March 2017 saw her...

Bill Howe has lots to share! First, he gave a talk about data science education at the UW as part of his role on a National Academy of Sciences roundtable on postsecondary data science education. And he had three paper acceptances: LaraDB: A Minimalist Kernel for Linear and Relational Algebra...

Annie Searle served as a featured speaker at “The Great Conversation: Security Risk Management in 2017” conference, which took place at Seattle’s Bell Harbor Conference Center March 6th to 7th.  Her topic was “Linking Enterprise Risk Management to Organizational Value.” More...

Li Zeng successfully defended her General Exam on March 8th! Congratulations to Li whose area of focus is the intersection between social media studies and machine learning in the growing field of computational social science. Thanks also to her supervisory committee: Emma Spiro (Chair), Josh...

Wan-Chen Lee successfully passed her General Exam on February 13! Congratulations to Wan-Chen who answered questions related to classification theory, cultural warrant, and field sites as understood in ethnographic work.  Thanks also go to her supervisory committee: Carole Palmer, Nic Weber,...