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2023-02-15: Paper Summary "The nature of consciousness in the visually...
How we portray and engage with the world around us is fundamentally influenced by our sense of vision. The visual area is located in about one-third of the cortical surface of the primates. Vision...
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2023-02-25: Brian Hanson, Jr. (Computer Science Ph.D. Student Intro!)
"Hello! Welcome to my introductory blog!"My name is Brian Hanson, Jr., and I enrolled as a doctoral student at Old Dominion University in the Spring of 2022 as a G-RISE Scholar under the direct...
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2023-01-31: Nithiya Venkatraman - PhD Computer Science
I am Nithiya Venkatraman, Senior Software Engineer at ADP, Norfolk and a part-time PhD student at Old Dominion University. I have 10+ years of IT experience (Oracle PL/SQL, Java, OAF Framework, Unix)....
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2023-02-26: Animating Changes in Webpages, Featuring George Santos's Biography
Figure 1: The Wayback Machine "Changes" tool showing the difference between George Santos's biography on December 19, 2022 and February 3, 2023. Deletions are highlighted in yellow and additions are...
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2023-03-16: My journey to ODU WS-DL Group
 My name is Brian Llinás, and I joined the Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) research group at Old Dominion University (ODU) as a Ph.D. student in the Spring of 2023 (my first year), supervised...
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2023-03-29: A Summary of Misinformation & Disinformation Workshop at Old...
Old Dominion University library organized a workshop on Misinformation and Disinformation (see video and presentation slides added in this blog) on Feb 23, 2023. It was two hours workshop session led...
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2023-04-28: The Governor’s STEM Academy at Grassfield High School's Visit to...
Dr. Sampath Jayarathna welcoming the students of Governor’s STEM Academy to ODU Computer Science DepartmentOn March 16th, 9th Graders from Grassfield High School Governor’s STEM academy visited ODU...
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2022-05-01: Summary of "Wearable Microphone Jamming"
In "Wearable Microphone Jamming" (CHI, 2020), Chen et al. explored and built a wearable device to disable surrounding microphones. Voice assistants like Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant are widely...
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2022-05-01: Summary of "User Authentication via Electrical Muscle Stimulation"
ElectricAuth is a completely unique technique for user authentication that takes advantage of one's specific response to stimuli. Users may be uniquely identified by using a number of mild electric...
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2023-05-17: Open-Source Solution for EEG Signal Data Processing and Analysis
Fig 1. Plot generated using MNE-Python plot_topomap functionIn a prior blog post, I discussed how Neuropype commercial software can be used for EEG data processing and analysis. While this tool...
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2023-05-19: CCI Symposium Trip Report April 17-18, 2023
 Members of the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative and invited guests gathered at the second annual CCI Symposium April 17 to 18, 2023, in Richmond, VA.Dr. Luiz DaSilva, executive director of the...
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2023-05-23: ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and...
The eighth ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (#CHIIR2023) was held online in Austin, Texas, from March 19 to 23. After three years of virtual conferences, CHIIR 2023...
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2023-05-24: IIPC Web Archiving Conference (WAC) Trip Report
 This year's International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) Web Archiving Conference (WAC) took place in Hilversum, The Netherlands at The Netherlands Institute of Sound and Vision. It was the...
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2023-05-25: Generative Archive Restoration
 Rise of the Machines!Machine Learning just cannot seem to keep itself out of news cycles. The third version of OpenAI's generative dialogue language model, ChatGPT, had tech giants all around...
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2023-05-29: 2023 WS-DL Research Expo
On May 8, 2023, we held our third annual WS-DL Research Expo. We stuck with the same format as the prior two years (2022& 2021): one student from each professor giving a short overview of their...
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2023-05-31: Towards an Ethical Framework for Full-Text Search in Web Archives
Figure 1: Arquivo.pt's full-text search engine makes it effortless to search archived content on GeoCities. The exploitative search results for the query "party site:geocities.com", not included in the...
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2023-06-03: A Trip report on Bill Ingram's Visit to ODU
On Friday, March 24, 2023, we had the pleasure of hosting William A. Ingram, who holds the positions of associate dean, and executive director for information technologies in the University Libraries...
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2023-06-15: A Milestone Achieved: Completing my Master's Degree and Advancing...
In the Fall of 2019, I joined the WS-DL (Web Science and Digital Libraries) research group at Old Dominion University as a Master’s student under the supervision of Dr. Michele C. Weigle and Dr....
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2023-06-20: ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA)...
The 15th Annual ACM Symposium of Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA 2023) was a fully hybrid conference, with the in-person event at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and virtual...
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2023-07-01: Disinformation Detection and Analytics REU Program - Year 2
Disinformation that spreads on the web and social media can often cause real harm, from confusing to mobilizing communities leading to many societal problems. With the widespread use of social media...
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