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2024-08-19: Summer Data & Analytics Summer Internship at PRA Group, Inc.
Embarking on an internship is often a transformative experience, and my journey has been no exception. Over the past few months, I've had the opportunity to dive deep into the intricate world of data...
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2024-08-20: Paper Summary: "Enabling Uniform Computer Interaction Experience...
The ACM ASSETS Conference, formally known as the International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, is a leading forum for presenting research on the design, evaluation, and use of...
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2024-08-20: Six WSDL Classes Offered for Fall 2024
https://xkcd.com/2173/ Six courses from the Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) Group will be offered for Fall 2024. The classes will be a mixture of on-line, f2f, and hybrid. CS 432/532 Web...
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2024-08-22: Paper Summary: "All in One Place: Ensuring Usable Access to...
EICS 2024 marks the sixteenth international ACM SIGCHI conference, focused on engineering interactive computing systems and their user interfaces. The conference explores research at the intersection...
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2024-08-25: IMLS Grant Awarded on Preserving Open Access Datasets and...
Figure 1: The schematic overview of the project, including main components (lower) and stakeholders (upper). In collaboration with Dr. Sawood Alam at the Internat Archive, Dr. Edward Fox at Virginia...
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2024-08-27: Advancing Health Equity Through Telehealth: A New NSF-Funded...
I'm thrilled to share an exciting news—my very first NSF proposal has been funded! This award is a NSF Smart and Connected Communities Planning Grant for one year and worth $150,000 titledAdvancing...
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2024-08-30: The 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and...
SIGIR 2024 Opening SessionACM SIGIR 2024 was held in Washington, D.C from July 14 - 18. There were over 900 attendees! The conference also featured two themed days: LLM Day and Government Day. Parallel...
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2024-08-31: Improving LLM Discernibility in Scientific News – A Thesis Journey
In My Process: From the Field to PhD CandidacyBorn and raised in Budapest, Hungary, this journey has been unbelievable. To be honest, I mainly came to Old Dominion University to play football in 2020,...
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2024-09-04: Trust and Influence Program Review Meeting 2024 Trip Report
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2024-09-05: Digital Methods for the Study of Mobilities Workshop Trip Report
Traditionally, historians have relied on conventional methods to uncover the details of our past. These methods include qualitative text analysis, translations, and transliterations, among other...
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2024-09-13: Paper Summary: Uncertainty Quantification in Table Structure...
Figure 1. An illustration of the differences between aleatoric and epistemic uncertainties (Yang et al., 2023).IntroductionTable Structure Recognition (TSR) is a task of document...
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2024-09-20: Some URLs Are Immortal, Most Are Ephemeral
This post reports preliminary results from the "Not Your Parents' Web" project, a collaboration between Old Dominion University's Web Science and Digital Libraries group, the Internet Archive (IA), and...
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2024-09-22: Looking Back at My PhD Journey
I (Gavindya Jayawardena) began my PhD journey in Spring 2019 under the guidance of Dr. Sampath Jayarathna at Old Dominion University (ODU), immediately after completing my Bachelor’s degree. I joined...
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2024-10-02: MS Thesis: Surfacing Text Changes in Archived Webpages
Thesis defense, July 29, 2024. Picture courtesy of Dr. Michele Weigle.My master’s thesis, “Surfacing Text Changes in Archived Webpages” explores how users can better find and view changes on webpages...
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2024-10-03: The End of a Long Journey: Reflecting on My PhD Experience
In the Spring of 2019, I embarked on a six-year journey toward earning my PhD in Computer Science. After completing my undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of...
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2024-10-07: Leveraging LLMs for Transcript Generator - Summer Internship...
This summer, I had the privilege of interning at Amazon with the Alexa Certification Technology (Alexa-Cert-Tech) team located in Sunnyvale, California, USA. My internship was a 13-week program which...
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2024-10-07: ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA)...
The ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA) 2024 was a hybrid conference with the in-person event at the Glasgow Grosvenor Hotel, Glasgow, UK, and virtual attendees joining...
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2024-10-12: A Letter to Africa: The AI Age is Here and Africa is Nowhere to...
Source: AUDA-NEPAD_The African Union Development Agency’s AI white paper and roadmap.A Letter to Africa: The AI Age is Here and Africa is Nowhere to be Found.Dearest Africa,I write to you, my...
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2024-10-18: ACM SIGWEB conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT) 2024 -...
Presenting research on the deceptive practices of coyote advertisements in illegal migrationI had the pleasure of attending and presenting at the ACM Hypertext 2024 conference in Poznań, Poland. The...
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2024-10-22: Analyzing Redirects and Getting Rickrolled Along the Way
Redirects are often seen as the invisible roads of the web, silently sending users from one URL to another. While they typically serve the practical purpose of keeping web traffic flowing...
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