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The Emergence of Social Computing

Irwin King

Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Tagline

Renowned researcher on how Social Computing has changed the ways we interact with each other and its impact to our culture, commerce, and community.

Abstract

Web 2.0 based technologies have introduced a drastic paradigm shift in our cultural landscape in terms of how we communicate and interact through personal and mobile devices. Social Computing involves the study of collective intelligence by using computational techniques on social behavioral data collected from social media platforms such as blogs, wikis, emails, instant messages, clickthrough data, query logs, social bookmarks, and tags. For instance, Google was able to use users' search behavior data to predict the outbreak of flu. Community-based Question-and-Answer (CQNA) systems are now available to respond to satisfy our curiosity that cannot be done through machines before. Can we use the wisdom from the crowd to better our society? The talk will introduce Social Computing and its background context and shed some lights on its impact to our culture, commerce, and community.

Brief Profile

Dr. King's research interests include machine learning, web intelligence & social computing, and multimedia processing. In these research areas, he has over 200 technical publications in journals (JMLR, ACM TOIS, IEEE TNN, Neurocomputing, NN, IEEE BME, PR, IEEE SMC, JAMC, JASIST, IJPRAI, DSS, etc.) and conferences (NIPS, IJCAI, CIKM, SIGIR, KDD, PAKDD, ICDM, WWW, WI/IAT, WCCI, IJCNN, ICONIP, ICDAR, etc.). In addition, he has contributed over 20 book chapters and edited volumes. Moreover, Dr. King has over 30 research and applied grants. One notable system he has developed is the VeriGuide System, previously known as the CUPIDE (Chinese University Plagiarism IDentification Engine) system, which detects similar sentences and performs readability analysis of text-based documents in both English and in Chinese to promote academic integrity and honesty.

Dr. King is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (TNN) and IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (CIM). He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Open Information Systems Journal, Journal of Nonlinear Analysis and Applied Mathematics, and Neural Information Processing–Letters and Reviews Journal (NIP-LR). He has also served as Special Issue Guest Editor for Neurocomputing, International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics (IJICC), Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS), and International Journal of Computational Intelligent Research (IJCIR). He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM, International Neural Network Society (INNS), and Asian Pacific Neural Network Assembly (APNNA). Currently, he is serving the Neural Network Technical Committee (NNTC) and the Data Mining Technical Committee under the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (formerly the IEEE Neural Network Society). He is also a member of the Board of Governors of INNS and a Vice-President and Governing Board Member of APNNA.

Dr. King joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1993. He received his B.Sc. degree in Engineering and Applied Science from California Institute of Technology, Pasadena and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

 
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