Jevin West and Jason Portenoy were awarded $20,000 from the Science History Institute to develop methods for history annotation. The project will use the biotech industry in the San Francisco Bay Area as its case study.
Lovenoor Aulck, Kishore Vasan, and Jevin West had a paper accepted to KDD 2018 BigScholar 2018: The 5th Workshop on Big Scholarly Data that will be held in London this August. Their paper is titled: "Is together better? Examining scientific collaborations across multiple authors, institutions, and departments.”
Bill Howe, Sean Yang, Poshen Lee, and Jevin West also had a paper accepted to KDD 2018 BigScholar 2018: The 5th Workshop on Big Scholarly Data. The title of their paper is "Delineating Disciplines Using Visual Information in Scientific Literature.”
Anna Lauren Hoffmann’s book review titled A Microsoft researcher confronts how companies shape what we see and say online was published in Science Magazine this week. She reviewed Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions That Shape Social Media by Tarleton Gillespie.
Jason Young will give a talk titled “Knowledge Politics Across Digital Divides: Environmental Change, Indigeneity, and Technology Use in the Arctic” at the Development Studies Association 2018 Conference. This year’s theme is Global Inequalities. The conference will take place in Manchester, UK on June 27.
Maria Garrido gave a keynote presentation at the 10th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML 2018) in Chania, Crete, Greece on May 22. Her talk was titled Development and Access to Information: The Role of Libraries in Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals.
Susan H. Hildreth, Joe Janes, Chris Jowaisas, Beck Tench, Audrey Barbakoff, and Pam Smith will present at the ALA Annual Conference panel titled Ensuring the Future of Libraries: Connecting the Academy and the Profession with Susan Hildreth as the moderator. The panel is about the iSchool’s Distinguished Practitioner in Residence (DPIR) program. The conference will take place in New Orleans.
Stacey Wedlake will give a talk, along with David Keyes from the City of Seattle, titled “Measuring City of Seattle’s Progress on Digital Equity” at the 2018 Community Indicators Consortium Impact Summit: Community Indicators in Action. The summit will take place in Minneapolis this September.
The University Marketing & Communications team won a 2018 CASE Circle of Excellence Writing for the Web award for its article on Martez Mott titled Slide to Unlock. The article highlighted the work he is doing in the UW iSchool and as a member of MAD Lab and the DUB Group about inclusive innovation in the field of human-computer interaction.