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Australian PhD School Short Course Speaker

Introduction to Social Computing

Irwin King

AT&T Labs, Research

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

Abstract

With the advent of Web 2.0, Social Computing has emerged as one of the hot research topics recently. Social Computing involves the collecting, extracting, accessing, processing, computing, visualizing, etc. of social signals and information. More specifically, this short course places special emphases in machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, and other computational techniques involved in collective intelligence processing of social behavior data collected from blogs, wikis, clickthrough data, query logs, tags, etc., and from areas such as social networks, social search, social media, social bookmarks, social news, social knowledge sharing, and social games. In this short course, I plan to give an introduction to Social Computing and elaborate on how the various characteristics and aspects are involved in the social platforms for collective intelligence. These topics include social network theory and modeling, graph mining, query log processing, learning to rank, recommender systems, human computation, etc. The short course is prepared for machine learning, web mining, and information retrieval researchers who are interested in computational approaches to social computing.

Brief Profile

Irwin 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 many premier journals and top conference venues. 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, which detects similar sentences and performs readability analysis of text-based documents in both English and in Chinese to promote academic integrity and honesty.

Irwin King is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (TNN) and IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (CIM). He has 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 Vice-President and Governing Board Member of the Asian Pacific Neural Network Assembly (APNNA).

Presentation Materials

  1. [November 23-27, 2010, misc | www]
    Irwin King, {1. Introduction to Social Computing, 2010 EII PhD School: Cloud Computing, Service Computing & Social Networks, Brisbane, Australia}, November 23-27, 2010.
  2. [November 23-27, 2010, misc | www]
    Irwin King, {2. Query Suggestion, 2010 EII PhD School: Cloud Computing, Service Computing & Social Networks, Brisbane, Australia}, November 23-27, 2010.
  3. [November 23-27, 2010, misc | www]
    Irwin King, {3. Human Computation, 2010 EII PhD School: Cloud Computing, Service Computing & Social Networks, Brisbane, Australia}, November 23-27, 2010.
  4. [November 23-27, 2010, misc | www]
    Irwin King, {4. Social Recommendation, 2010 EII PhD School: Cloud Computing, Service Computing & Social Networks, Brisbane, Australia}, November 23-27, 2010.
 
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