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2026-09-17: Paper Summary: "A self-correcting multi-agent LLM framework for...
As stated in the paper, "A self-correcting multi-agent LLM framework for language-based physics simulation and explanation" [1], physics simulations are essential in science and engineering, but...
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2026-07-13: WSDL Cartoon Book: Issue 1: Trip to Norway and How It Changed the...
Sometimes, all it takes is a trip to Norway to confirm that everything is connected.From June 2 to June 11, I traveled with my faculty advisors from Storymodelers to Kristiansand, Norway, to...
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2026-09-04: My Summer Internship with the Naval Information Warfare Center...
As a scholar at the Department of War Cyber Service Academy (DoW CSA), I was selected to participate in the inaugural 2026 VICEROY Vector cohort located at the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific...
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2026-08-31: IMLS Grant Awarded on Identifying and Preserving Web Resources...
In collaboration with Dr. Alexander Nwala at William & Mary and Dr. Sawood Alam at the Internet Archive, we (Himarsha R. Jayanetti, Dr. Michael L. Nelson, and Dr. Michele C. Weigle) at the Web...
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2026-08-25: A Year with the Computer Science Graduate Society at ODU -...
TheComputer Science Graduate Society (CSGS) was founded in 2019 by Eleni Adam andYasha Ravindra as the primary student body representing both master’s and PhD students in Computer Science at Old...
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2026-08-23: Six WSDL Classed Offered for Fall 2026
https://xkcd.com/2501/Eight courses from the Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) Group will be offered for Fall 2026. The classes will be a mixture of asynchronous and f2. CS 418/518 Web...
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2026-08-18: KDD 2026 in Jeju, South Korea
From August 9-13, I attended the 32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) in Jeju, South Korea, with my co-first author, Bang Nguyen. It was my first time traveling to...
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2026-08-17: Visiting Research Position at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical...
In Summer 2026, I was honored to have the opportunity of being a visiting researcher at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School in Boston. I worked...
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2026-08-03: REU Renewal Proposal Awarded by NSF
I am excited to share that our proposal, "REU Site: Human-AI Interaction and Evaluation in Web and Information Systems," has been funded by the National Science Foundation. This is a renewal of our...
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2026-08-03: JCDL Receives Sponsorship from the NSF to Support Its Doctoral...
In July 2026, Old Dominion University Research Foundation received an award from the National Science Foundation. The award, led by Dr. Jian Wu and Dr. Sampath Jayarathna, will support up to 5...
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2026-07-18: ICSSI 2026 - Trip Report from Boulder, Colorado
From June 29 to July 1, 2026, I attended the 5th International Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation (ICSSI 2026) in Boulder, Colorado. The conference was hosted jointly at the Limelight...
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2026-07-17: Summer Research Internship at the Harvard Graduate School of...
This summer, I had the opportunity to work as a visiting student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), where I worked in the Learning, Innovation, and Technology Lab (LIT Lab) supervised...
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2026-07-09: Graduating from the Department of War Cyber Service Academy
My award for my outstanding academic achievement, leadership, and successfully completing the requirements for the Department of War Cyber Service AcademyI graduated from the Department of War (DoW)...
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2026-06-25: 2026 WS-DL Research Expo
On June 23, 2026, we held our sixth annual WS-DL Research Expo. We continued the same format as the prior years (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022 & 2021), with one student from each WS-DL professor giving a...
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2026-06-19: From Chalk Dust to Code: My Journey from a Small Town to a Ph.D....
I was born in a small town to two schoolteachers who believed education was not just a profession but a purpose. Growing up in such an environment meant that learning was never forced; it was simply...
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2026-06-09: Teaching Database Concepts for Senior Undergraduate and Graduate...
In the Spring 2026 semester at Old Dominion University (ODU), I taught CS 450 (Undergrad) / CS 550 (Graduate): Database Concepts. The course was fully online, with synchronous live Zoom sessions held...
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2026-05-28: If LLMs can write abstracts, what's our job? The Uncanny Valley...
If LLMs can write abstracts, what's our job? The Uncanny Valley and Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect in the ACM Digital LibraryMichael L. Nelson2026-05-28I serve on the ACM Digital Libraries Board, and we are...
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2026-05-26: URL Arguments in API Calls Can Cause Intermittent Temporal...
URL Arguments in API Calls Can Cause Intermittent Temporal Violations While Replaying Archived Web Pages Michael L. Nelson2026-05-26Just over two months ago, I was at the Information Stewardship Forum...
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2026-05-24: Paper Summary: Context-Based URL Classification for Open Access...
Figure 1: EnSU Architecture. This is Figure 2 in our paper.This blog post summarizes our paper, "Context-Based URL Classification for Open Access Datasets and Software in Scholarly Documents,"...
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2026-05-18: John Deasy (Computer Science PhD Student)
Hey WSDL! I'm John (Jack) Deasy and I decided to commit to getting a Ph.D. in Computer Science, so here I am. I received my B.S. in Physics from the University of Mary Washington and my M.S. in...
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