2024-11-08: From Budapest to Norfolk
Born and raised in Budapest, Hungary, soccer was everything to me growing up. I played the sport for most of my life, and eventually to California to finish high school, hoping to take my soccer skills...
View Article2024-11-12: First steps as a SMART Scholar
Recently I was lucky to be a SMART scholarship recipient! I am currently through the introductory phases and processes awaiting my first summer of internship and wanted to share a bit of my experience...
View Article2024-11-12: Commonwealth of Virginia Engineering and Science (COVES) Summer...
COVES fellows at COVES policy fellowship orientation and bootcamp This summer, I had the privilege of being selected for the Commonwealth of Virginia Engineering and Science (COVES) Policy Fellowship,...
View Article2024-11-13: The DOI URI Scheme: Utility or Branding?
Illustration by Pat HochstenbachThe DOI URI Scheme: Utility or Branding?Herbert Van de Sompel2024-11-13A few days ago, Joe Wass published a blog post entitled "Falsehoods Programmers believe about...
View Article2024-11-15: The 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and...
CIKM 2024 took place in Boise, Idaho, in the Mountain West part of the United States. The mountains in the background distinguish the pictured Idaho State Capitol from the US Capitol.ACM CIKM 2024 was...
View Article2024-11-23: Improving Disaster Recovery With the Convergence, Inventory,...
CIMA Disaster Recovery PlatformOver the summer, and now into this Fall semester, I have been working on an amazing project called CIMA (Convergence, Inventory, Matching & Assignment). I would like...
View Article2024-11-27: Paper Summary: You Shall Know a Forum by the Words they Keep:...
Figure 1 Venkatraman et al. The language use in accessibility forum discussion threads (left) differs from that in general forums (right).HT'24 - The ACM Hypertext conference is a leading platform for...
View Article2024-11-27: My Experience with OCR Post-Correction
Table 1 Soper et al.: Classification of common OCR error types, their descriptions, and representative examples. These categories highlight challenges in text recognition systems, such as...
View Article2024-11-29: Summary of "'I Bought This for Me to Look More Ordinary': A Study...
Figure: One participant shared his shopping experience using his smartphone. (Figure 1 in Liu et al.)IntroductionThe emergence of online shopping has transformed consumer behavior, providing unmatched...
View Article2024-12-04: Problems With Replaying Ads That Use iframes
Figure 1: An example web page that loaded Google ads. WACZ | URI-R: https://www.ign.com/tv/the-last-of-us-the-series For the Saving Ads project, we have focused on identifying problems with archiving...
View Article2024-12-05: The 28th International Conference on Theory and Practice of...
First Day at TPDL 2024 Conference!Attending TPDL 2024 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, was an unforgettable experience. The conference brought together a vibrant community of researchers and practitioners...
View Article2024-12-06: IEEE VIS 2024 Trip Report
The 2024 IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics Conference (VIS), initially scheduled as a hybrid event from October 13 to 18 at the Hilton Tampa Downtown in Tampa, Florida, was transitioned to an...
View Article2024-12-08: Paper Summary: Learning Agent-based Modeling with LLM Companions:...
Figure 1: Chen et al. NetLogo Chat asking for details about human’s needs.IntroductionThe integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into computational programming is transforming the way users learn...
View Article2024-12-17: Are Micro-collections Still Present on Twitter in 2024?
Twitter allows its users to author original content and share links to other web pages. Archivists can mine tweets for these shared URIs, and use those as seeds to create web archive collections. These...
View Article2024-12-24: Summer 2024 Internship Report -- ORISE Fellow with U.S. Food &...
During my senior year as a Ph.D. candidate at Old Dominion University (ODU), I accepted an internship opportunity with the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) / U.S. Food and Drug...
View Article2024-12-18: Research Summary on Replicability Assessment of SBS Papers
According to a report published by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, "reproducibility refers to instances in which the original researcher's data and computer codes are used...
View Article2024-12-30: Paper Summary: Benchmarking LLMs via Uncertainty Quantification
Figure 1: Overall process of applying conformal prediction for uncertainty quantification in LLMs (Figure 2 in paper)IntroductionAs large language models (LLMs) gain prominence in academia and...
View Article2024-12-30: Unveiling Coyote Ads: Detecting Human Smuggling Advertisements on...
Figure 1: An example of a Coyote ad on social media in Spanish. (Figure 1 in Kodandaram et al.) IntroductionSocial media has revolutionized how information flows, connecting people across the globe at...
View Article2024-12-31: The 27th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and...
ETD 2024 took place in Livingstone, ZambiaI had the privilege of participating in the 27th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD 2024), which took place as a hybrid event...
View Article2024-12-31: Benchmark: Whether LLM agents can evaluate, replicate, and...
I am excited to announce that Old Dominion University (ODU) is part of the multi-university grant awarded by the Open Philanthropy Foundation to support the development of a systematic benchmark...
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