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Do you do text/data mining?
by Patricia Aufderheide 22 Nov '22

22 Nov '22

We are relaunching a survey about the challenges of #textasdata and TDM generally, in several languages! English: https://american.co1.qualtrics.com/survey-builder/SV_0PPI55AouzaRwmG/edit Spanish: https://american.co1.qualtrics.com/survey-builder/SV_0xmENxPohnb1Tdc/edit Portuguese: https://american.co1.qualtrics.com/survey-builder/SV_0w71XVbXI9Ja84u/edit Arabic: https://american.co1.qualtrics.com/survey-builder/SV_a9LB3QD5oTHcVhQ/edit Please share with colleagues and students! Thank you so much. Patricia Aufderheide, University Professor, School of Communication (she/they) Living and working on unceded lands of Nacotchtank and Piscataway peoples Founder and Senior Research Fellow, Center for Media & Social Impact American University 4400 Massachusetts Av., NW American University, Washington, DC 20016-8017 McKinley Hall 323 @paufder @cmsimpact cmsimpact.org<http://cmsimpact.org> paufder(a)american.edu<mailto:paufder@american.edu> 202-885-2069 office 240-643-4805 mobile Zoom Office Hours: https://american.zoom.us/j/96788556467?pwd=eFNpa2JMWlZQRm5pT1Z0b3RVUlRXQT09 Reclaiming Fair Use--t<https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/022637419X?pf_rd_p=d1f45e03-8b73-4c9a-9be…>he second edition is out, with new stories, quizzes and entirely new chapters on the surprising success of fair use in enabling creativity!

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Multiple T/TT/Term Faculty Positions at George Mason University
by Myeong Lee 22 Nov '22

22 Nov '22

[Sorry for any cross postings] The Department of Information Sciences and Technology at George Mason University located in Fairfax, Virginia, is hiring multiple tenured, tenure-track, and teaching faculty members in the coming year. Research areas of ideal candidates include a broad spectrum of information science and technology such as Data Science, HCI, AI, NLP, Social Computing, and Visualization. * T/TT Positions: apply for position number F815AZ at http://jobs.gmu.edu/ * Term (Teaching) Positions: apply for position number F817AZ at http://jobs.gmu.edu/ See the below for the details. Best, <T/TT> Department of Information Sciences and Technology at George Mason University Multiple Open-Rank, Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty Positions The George Mason University Department of Information Sciences and Technology, within the College of Engineering and Computing (CEC), invites applications for multiple tenured or tenure-track faculty positions beginning Fall 2023. Senior candidates with established records of outstanding research and excellent teaching will be eligible for tenured associate professor or professor positions. George Mason University has a strong institutional commitment to the achievement of excellence and diversity among its faculty and staff, and strongly encourages candidates to apply who will enrich Mason's academic and culturally inclusive environment. Responsibilities: Successful candidates will be expected to teach at the undergraduate and graduate levels; develop an independent, externally funded research program; advise students; participate in all aspects of the department's mission; and serve the profession. Required Qualifications: Applicants must have received a PhD in Information Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field by the start date of the position and should have demonstrated potential for excellence and productivity in research, and a commitment to high-quality teaching. Preferred Qualifications: Applicants in all areas of information science and technology, computing, and related areas will be given full consideration. We are particularly interested in candidates in the areas of artificial intelligence (including machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and knowledge engineering), data mining and analytics, cybersecurity, human centered computing (including information visualization, human computer interaction, social computing, pervasive & ubiquitous computing), network science, cloud computing, and information system design. Strong candidates from other areas will be also considered. About the Department: The Department of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) has 44 full-time faculty members with diverse areas of research focus including cybersecurity, data mining and machine learning, natural language processing, human-centered computing, ubiquitous and mobile computing, cyber-physical systems, and engineering education. IST has one of the largest and fastest growing undergraduate major in the university, the ABET-accredited and N-CAE-CD-validated BS in Information Technology, serving more than 1,800 students. Additionally, the department has about 130 graduate students in the MS in Applied Information Technology (AIT) program and co-coordinates the MS in Information Systems program. The online MS programs in IT ranked 26th among public universities and 37th overall according to U.S. News and World Report. In addition to BS and MS programs, the department also participates in an interdisciplinary BS program in Cyber Security Engineering, MS program in Data Analytics Engineering, and a PhD program in Information Technology (concentration in IST) offered by the College of Engineering and Computing. Research expenditures of the ISTdepartment totaled about $2.2 million in FY 2022. Funding sources include NSF, DOD, DARPA, NIH, and DHHS. Faculty include NSFCAREER and NSF CRII awardees. For more information on the department, please visit our website: http://ist.gmu.edu/ Mason Computing: The Future of Computing is Here The College of Engineering and Computing at George Mason University is comprised of the Volgenau School of Engineering and the School of Computing. The College is a fast-growing force for innovation in research and education. Ranked nationally in the top 100 in both undergraduate and graduate education, the College boasts 10,000 students in 37 undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degree programs, including several first-in-the-nation offerings. Of the 302 full-time faculty who comprise the College, 93 are tenured, 75 are tenure-track, 82 are instructional faculty, and 52 are research faculty. As part of a nationally ranked research university, its research teams expended more than $70 million in sponsored research awards last year and have projects with over $400 million in current and anticipated awards. Located in the heart of Northern Virginia's technology corridor, Mason Engineering stands out for its research in many leading areas including artificial intelligence, data analytics engineering, cybersecurity engineering, biomedical imaging and devices, autonomous systems, 5G communications, systems architectures, computational biomedicine, community-based healthcare, advanced materials and manufacturing, sustainable infrastructure, and more. The College highly encourages multidisciplinary research and provides faculty with opportunities to work with other disciplines. George Mason University is the largest and most diverse public research university in Virginia, with an enrollment of 40,000 students studying in over 200 degree programs. Mason is an innovative, entrepreneurial institution with national distinction in a range of academic fields. It was classified as an R1 research institution in 2016 by the Carnegie Classifications of Institutes of Higher Education. Mason is located in the city of Fairfax in Northern Virginia at the doorstep of the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, with unmatched geographical access to several federal agencies and national laboratories. Northern Virginia is also home to one of the largest concentrations of high-tech firms in the nation, providing excellent opportunities for interaction with industry. Fairfax is consistently rated as being among the best places to live in the country and has an outstanding local public school system. In conjunction with Amazon's decision to establish a second headquarters in Northern Virginia, the Commonwealth of Virginia announced a multi-year plan to invest in the growth of degree programs in computing. George Mason University has committed to accelerate its plans to increase its capacity in engineering and computing. Some of the university's exciting plans are the launch of the Institute for Digital InnovAtion, a university think tank and incubator to serve the digital economy, and the expansion of its Arlington Campus with a 360,000 square foot building–Fuse at Mason Square. Fuse will become the nexus of Mason's transdisciplinary research, entrepreneurship, and academic program efforts in digital innovation, and will unite the public and private sectors in a collaborative alliance to address the world's grand challenges. Special Instructions to Applicants For full consideration, applicants must apply for position number F815AZ at http://jobs.gmu.edu/; complete and submit the online application; and upload a statement of professional goals including their perspective on teaching and research (to attach as 'Other Doc'), a complete CV with publications, a statement on what diversity and inclusion means to them (to attach as 'Other Doc 2'), and the names of three professional references with contact information. <Term/Teaching track> Department of Information Sciences and Technology Multiple Open-Rank, Term Faculty Positions The George Mason University Department of Information Sciences and Technology, within the College of Engineering and Computing (CEC), invites applications for multiple renewable-term, non-tenure-track positions at the academic rank of Assistant, Associate or Full Professor, or at the rank of Instructor, beginning Fall 2023. George Mason University has a strong institutional commitment to the achievement of excellence and diversity among its faculty and staff, and strongly encourages candidates to apply who will enrich Mason’s academic and culturally inclusive environment. Responsibilities: The candidate will be responsible for teaching and service requirements consistent with the departmental policies: • Teaching at the undergraduate and/or graduate-level in the classroom and/or online; • As department needs dictate, developing and coordinating courses and managing adjunct faculty and graduate teaching assistants; • Participating in student advising; and • Performing other departmental/university service duties. Required Qualifications: Applicants for the position of Assistant/Associate or Full Professor must have received a PhD in Information Sciences, Information Technology, Computer Science or a related field by the start date of the position. Senior candidates for Associate Professor or Professor positions should also have an established record of teaching experience. Applicants who have received an MS/MA in the fields listed above or an MBA/MPA with a significant portion of the program devoted to Information Technology by the start date of the position will be considered for Instructor positions. Applicants should possess a strong commitment to education and demonstrated excellence in teaching. Preferred Qualifications: Applicants in all areas of information technology will be given serious consideration. We are particularly interested in candidates in the areas of cloud computing, data science, cyber/information security, databases, web application development and programming, operating systems, project management, and senior design capstone. Strong candidates will have related industry and/or teaching experience in these areas, preferably both. Administrative and/or managerial experience is a plus. The Department and the College place a high value on engaging students from traditionally underrepresented groups, and candidates from these groups are especially encouraged to apply. About the Department: The Department of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) has 44 full-time faculty members with diverse areas of research focus including cybersecurity, data mining and machine learning, natural language processing, human-centered computing, ubiquitous and mobile computing, cyber-physical systems, and engineering education. IST has one of the largest and fastest growing undergraduate major in the university, the ABET-accredited and N-CAE-CD-validated BS in Information Technology, serving more than 1,800 students. Additionally, the department has about 130 graduate students in the MS in Applied Information Technology (AIT) program and co-coordinates the MS in Information Systems program. The online MS programs in IT ranked 26th among public universities and 37th overall according to U.S. News and World Report. In addition to BS and MS programs, the department also participates in an interdisciplinary BS program in Cyber Security Engineering, MS program in Data Analytics Engineering, and a PhD program in Information Technology (concentration in IST) offered by the College of Engineering and Computing. Research expenditures of the IST department totaled about $2.2 million in FY 2022. Funding sources include NSF, DOD, DARPA, NIH, and DHHS. Faculty include NSF CAREER and NSF CRII awardees. For more information on the department, please visit our website: http://ist.gmu.edu/ Mason Computing: The Future of Computing is Here The College of Engineering and Computing at George Mason University is comprised of the Volgenau School of Engineering and the School of Computing. The College is a fast-growing force for innovation in research and education. Ranked nationally in the top 100 in both undergraduate and graduate education, the College boasts 10,000 students in 37 undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral degree programs, including several first-in-the-nation offerings. Of the 302 full-time faculty who comprise the College, 93 are tenured, 75 are tenure-track, 82 are instructional faculty, and 52 are research faculty. As part of a nationally ranked research university, its research teams expended more than $70 million in sponsored research awards last year and has projects with over $400 million in current and anticipated awards. Located in the heart of Northern Virginia’s technology corridor, Mason Engineering stands out for its research in many leading areas including artificial intelligence, data analytics engineering, cybersecurity engineering, biomedical imaging and devices, autonomous systems, 5G communications, systems architectures, computational biomedicine, community-based healthcare, advanced materials and manufacturing, sustainable infrastructure, and more. The College highly encourages multidisciplinary research and provides faculty with opportunities to work with other disciplines. George Mason University is the largest and most diverse public research university in Virginia, with an enrollment of 40,000 students studying in over 200 degree programs. Mason is an innovative, entrepreneurial institution with national distinction in a range of academic fields. It was classified as an R1 research institution in 2016 by the Carnegie Classifications of Institutes of Higher Education. Mason is located in the city of Fairfax in Northern Virginia at the doorstep of the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, with unmatched geographical access to a number of federal agencies and national laboratories. Northern Virginia is also home to one of the largest concentrations of high-tech firms in the nation, providing excellent opportunities for interaction with industry. Fairfax is consistently rated as being among the best places to live in the country, and has an outstanding local public school system. In conjunction with Amazon’s decision to establish a second headquarters in Northern Virginia, the Commonwealth of Virginia announced a multi-year plan to invest in the growth of degree programs in computing. George Mason University has committed to accelerate its plans to increase its capacity in engineering and computing. Some of the university’s exciting plans are the launch of the Institute for Digital InnovAtion, a university think tank and incubator to serve the digital economy, and the expansion of its Arlington Campus with a 360,000 square foot building–Fuse at Mason Square. Fuse will become the nexus of Mason’s transdisciplinary research, entrepreneurship, and academic program efforts in digital innovation, and will unite the public and private sectors in a collaborative alliance to address the world’s grand challenges. Special Instructions to Applicants For full consideration, applicants must apply for position number F817AZ at http://jobs.gmu.edu/ complete and submit the online application; and upload a statement of professional goals including their perspective on teaching and research (to attach as ‘Other Doc’), a complete CV with publications, a statement on what diversity and inclusion means to them (to attach as ‘Other Doc 2’), and the names of three professional references with contact information. The review of applications will begin on December 2, 2022 and continue until the positions are filled. ________________ Myeong Lee, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dept. of Information Sciences & Technology Director, Community Informatics Lab (CIL) School of Computing, George Mason University Fairfax, VA 22030 CIL: https://cil.cec.gmu.edu Web: https://myeonglee.com<https://myeonglee.com/> Email: mlee89(a)gmu.edu<mailto:mlee89@gmu.edu>

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CfA: Workshop "AI-Technology as Interactional Human Culture: Language, Data Practice and Social Struggle
by fester-seeger＠europa-uni.de 22 Nov '22

22 Nov '22

Dear AoIR community, We are organising an interdisciplinary workshop at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), where we would like to discuss with scholars from computer linguistics, computer sciences, sociology, sociolinguistics, philosophy, anthropology and embodied/enactive/distributed cognitive science how AI-Technology can be understood as distributed human-to-human interaction. See below for our call for abstracts ***CALL FOR ABSTRACTS*** *INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP AI-TECHNOLOGY AS INTERACTIONAL HUMAN CULTURE: LANGUAGE, DATA PRACTICE AND SOCIAL STRUGGLE* *MARCH 30-31, 2023, EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY VIADRINA FRANKFURT (ODER), GERMANY* *DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: DECEMBER 31, 2022* *KEYNOTE SPEAKERS* For now, we are pleased to announce following keynote speakers: Emily Bender, University of Washington Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi, University of Warsaw Andreas Hepp, University of Bremen Nicolas Flores-Herr, Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems *WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION* In this interdisciplinary workshop, we discuss AI culture from a critical anthropological, sociological and linguistic perspective. We treat AI-culture as human and interactional practice and investigate it as embedded in wider social structures as well as linguistic conditions. Within this view, users and programmers of AI are no autonomous individuals but part of communities based on social affiliation, language, shared cultural practice and economic intentions. Together with scholars and practitioners, we seek to give attention to the people behind the systems and to their societal and linguistic embeddings and critically engage with the role of living human and 'enlanguaged' beings within AI systems. *AI-TECHNOLOGY AS HUMAN INTERACTION* Given that human living beings construct and use AI technologies, we may understand such technologies as a complex type of interactional culture whose human participants are distributed in space and time. In this interactional ecology, language data are central as they ground many constructions and employments. And yet, languages are themselves an outcome of socio-technological histories and histories of inequality and not 'raw data'. In this sense, data "do not offer access to the social world 'as it is' but an access to the procedures whereby powerful organizations attempt to construct a world on which they act" (Couldry and Hepp 2017: 163). *WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION* In this interdisciplinary workshop, we discuss AI-culture from a critical anthropological, sociological and linguistic perspective. We treat AI-culture as human and interactional practice and investigate it as embedded in wider social structures as well as linguistic conditions. Within this view, users and programmers of AI are no autonomous individuals but part of communities based on social affiliation, language, shared cultural practice and economic intentions. Together with scholars and practitioners, we seek to give attention to the people behind the systems and to their societal and linguistic embeddings and critically engage with the role of living human and 'enlanguaged' beings within AI-systems. *RESEARCH QUESTIONS* With the ambition to create an open discussion that is cross-theoretical, cross-disciplinary and bridges the divide of academic and applied practice, this workshop focuses on the following questions: - How do social values and cultural traditions, among them beliefs about machines, commercial interests, technological affordances and notions of language frame the development of AI technology? - How do traditions of writing, established language norms, the dominance of English and people's beliefs about language shape the programming of speech-enabled AI or translation technologies? What is the role of non-standardised forms, language change and variation, sound-based social positioning, bodily gestures and poetic functions in AI language models? - How do users co-construct and experience technologies in embodied, language-specific and culturally shaped ways? How does human-to-human interaction as well as social normative discourse impact people's use and co-creation of AI-systems in their homes or workplaces? What is the effect of the affordances of machine interaction on users' speech as an embodied and conversational practice? Related to these practices, what kinds of human language data feed back into servers of companies? - And, finally, what do we learn from all this with regards to the question what constitutes democratic, culturally sensitive and human-centred AI? *WHAT TO DO* Please send abstracts (up to 500 words plus references) to fester-seeger(a)europa-uni.de by December 31, 2022. The organizers expect to make final decisions on the program by January 31, 2023. *ORGANIZERS* Marie-Theres Fester-Seeger, PhD Prof. Dr. Britta Schneider Marie-Theres Fester-Seeger, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, Postdoc Network Brandenburg Professur für Sprachgebrauch und Migration Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät Europa-Universität Viadrina <mailto:mt.fester.seeger@gmail.com> mt.fester.seeger(a)gmail.com | <mailto:fester-seeger@europa-uni.de> fester-seeger(a)europa-uni.de Open call for abstracts for International Workshop "AI-Technology as Interactional Human Culture: Language, Data Practice and Social Struggle" at European University Viadrina (March 30 & 31 2023). You can find CfA and further information here. <https://www.kuwi.europa-uni.de/de/lehrstuhl/sw/sprachgebrauch-und-migration /Vortraege_-Talks/AI-Technology-as-Interactional-Human-Culture/index.html>

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IEEE WoWMoM 2023, June 12-15, 2023, Boston, Massachusetts, Deadline: December 15, 2022
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 21 Nov '22

21 Nov '22

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 24th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM) June 12-15, 2023, Boston, Massachusetts, USA https://coe.northeastern.edu/Groups/wowmom2023/index.html Deadline: December 15, 2022 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SCOPE AND OVERVIEW IEEE WoWMoM 2023 is soliciting original and previously unpublished papers addressing research challenges and advances in the areas of wireless, mobile, and multimedia networking as well as ubiquitous and pervasive systems and applications. Wireless networking technologies are continuously evolving and have become a critical part of modern life, be it for communication services, media distribution, or sensing and actuation services within the Internet of Things (IoT) context. Appropriate resource management, application design, and architectural networking paradigms are necessary to provide users with high quality experience in multimedia communication and services. Edge computing, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques are becoming essential tools to cope with the increasing diversity of connected devices and the plethora of new data-intensive and latency-sensitive applications. At the same time, the interoperability among IoT environments (including wearable computing and sensors), the network edge, and the cloud are evolving towards an fog-edge-cloud continuum that is expected to support a wide range of application domains and services in a more smooth and efficient manner. In this context, providing rich sets of measurements for characterizing, and understanding the behavior of such complex systems is of paramount importance. IEEE WoWMoM 2023 takes a broad view and seeks papers describing innovative research contributions to the field of mobile and wireless networking and applications. We solicit papers that present original work, validated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis. We also welcome practical experiences and experimental efforts from both industry and academia, duly documenting the lessons learned from testbeds, field trials, or real deployments. SPECIFIC AREAS OF INTEREST * 5G/ 6G networks for mobile and multimedia services * AI-assisted and data-driven networking in wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Authentication, authorization, accounting for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Behavior-aware human-centric multimedia networks * Content-centric architectures for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Context-awareness in wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) multimedia networks * Resource management and QoS/QoE provisioning * Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) enabled multimedia networks * Seamless inter-networking and self-organization * Software-Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualization, and slicing for wireless and mobile networks * IoT-edge-cloud continuum for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networking and services * Communication technologies and services for MTC * Dependability and survivability issues for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Energy characterisation and efficiency for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Localization, tracking, and mobility management and services * Trust and privacy issues for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Modeling, analysis, and performance evaluation of wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Network traffic characterization and measurements * System prototypes, measurements, real-world deployment, and experiences * Mobile social networks * Connected mobility, including vehicles, vulnerable road users, etc: networking issues and services * Participatory, mobile, and urban sensing * Wearable Computing PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Authors are invited to submit papers describing original, previously unpublished work not currently under review by another conference, workshop, or journal. Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process, and all submissions must be made electronically through EDAS. <https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=28898> Click here to register your paper now! Authors can submit regular or work-in-progress papers (appropriate category to be selected upon submission). REGULAR PAPERS Regular papers submissions may be up to 10 pages in length (including figures and references), formatted in two-column IEEE conference style with font size 10 points or greater. See IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings<https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html>. WORK IN PROGRESS PAPERS WIP (Work-in-progress) papers provide a peer-reviewed forum for late-breaking or preliminary research results, giving an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present and demonstrate their recent research and obtain feedback from their peers in a poster session. Work-in-progress papers submissions may be up to 4 pages in length (including figures and references) and must have the prefix "WIP:" in the paper's title. IMPORTANT DATES Papers due: December 15, 2022 Acceptance notification: February 20, 2023 Camera-ready version: April 15, 2023 ACCEPTED PAPERS An author of an accepted paper is required to register for the conference at the full (member or non-member) rate. The paper must be presented by an author of that paper at the conference. Exceptions can be granted if compelling reasons are sent to the TPC Co-Chairs with a written request indicating an adequate substitute presenter before the conference. Accepted papers (both regular and WIP) will be included in the proceedings of IEEE WoWMoM 2023 which will be published through the IEEE Xplore digital library. All conference proceedings must meet IEEE's quality standards, and IEEE reserves the right not to publish any proceedings that do not meet these standards. Furthermore, IEEE reserves the right to remove papers from IEEE Xplore that are not presented at the conference, for unjustified reasons. BEST PAPER AWARD All accepted regular papers will be considered for the Best Paper Award. A committee will select three best paper candidates based on the reviews received and also the quality of presentation. The winner will be announced during the conference. For any additional information, please contact the PC Co-chairs. JOURNAL FAST TRACK Extended versions of selected papers from IEEE WoWMoM 2023 will be invited for possible publication in the Elsevier journals: * Computer Communications<https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-communications> (Impact factor 3.167) * Pervasive Mobile Computing<https://www.journals.elsevier.com/pervasive-and-mobile-computing> (Impact factor 3.453) PC CO-CHAIRS Eylem Ekici, The Ohio State University, USA Ana Aguiar, University of Porto, Portugal -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Assistant Professor Computer Engineering Vice Chair Director of Recruiting and Admissions Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab's News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE> "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." ~ Aristotle

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Call for Workshops -- IEEE HPSR 2023 -- Deadline: November 25, 2022
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 21 Nov '22

21 Nov '22

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR WORKSHOPS IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing Artificial Intelligent Next Generation (NextG) Integrated Communications and Computing Systems 5-7 June 2023 @ Albuquerque, New Mexico https://www.ieee-hpsr.org/ https://twitter.com/ieeehpsr2023 Guideline for Workshops Proposals https://hpsr2023.ieee-hpsr.org/authors/call-for-workshop-papers/ *IEEE HPSR 2023 Organizing Committee is planning for an in-person conference and encourages the authors to participate physically; however, we understand that the pandemic situation is not over yet. Therefore, depending on the situation during the conference time, remote participation and online presentation may be allowed under special circumstances. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE HPSR 2023 seeks workshops proposals on new and emerging topics within the scope of the conference. Guideline for Workshops Proposals Each workshop proposal must include at least the following fields: 1. The full name of the workshop and its intended acronym. 2. The names and addresses of the organizers. 3. A brief description (up to 1 page) of the technical issues that the workshop will address, and the reasons why the workshop is of interest to IEEE HPSR 2023 at this time. 4. Some consideration of the communities/groups the workshop intends to attract. 5. The names and affiliations of the program committee member candidates. 6. The planned format of the workshop (full-day/half-day) as well as a tentative schedule that demonstrates the strategy to facilitate lively discussions and the involvement of the attendees. 7. The names of potential keynote speakers, if a keynote speech is included in the planned format of the workshop. 8. If applicable, a description of past versions of the workshop, including dates, organizers, numbers of submitted and accepted papers, and number of attendees. 9. A tentative call for papers. 10. A description of the planned activities for disseminating information about the workshop (e.g., CFPs) and the workshop website. Workshop proposals must be submitted in PDF format on or before November 25, 2022 by e-mail to the IEEE HPSR 2023 Workshops Co-chairs, using "HPSR2023 Workshop Proposal" in the subject line. Submission of workshop proposals should be made to the Workshop Co-chairs of IEEE HPSR 2023 by email to the following addresses: Anna Maria Vegni, Roma Tre University, Italy (annamaria.vegni(a)uniroma3.it<mailto:annamaria.vegni@uniroma3.it>) Aris Leivadeas, ÉTS Montréal, Canada (Aris.Leivadeas(a)etsmtl.ca<mailto:Aris.Leivadeas@etsmtl.ca>) ------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou Assistant Professor Director of Recruiting and Admissions Computer Engineering Area Vice Chair Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." ~ Aristotle

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Lists of COVID-related misinformation datasets
by Deena Abul-Fottouh 21 Nov '22

21 Nov '22

Hello all, I highly appreciate if you can share with me any publicly available Twitter datasets of COVID-related misinformation. Thank you Best regards, Deena ____________________________ Deena Abul-Fottouh, PhD. Postdoctoral Research Fellow Digital Society Lab Political Science Department Phone icon t phone: [1](905) 525-9140 Envelope icon email: [2]abulfodm(a)mcmaster.ca McMaster University 1280 Main Street West Hamilton, ON L8S 4M4 McMaster University Brighter World logo References 1. tel:+19055259140 2. mailto:abulfodm@mcmaster.ca

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Help with crowdsourced projects on Creativity and Mobile Gaming
by Adriana de Souza e Silva 21 Nov '22

21 Nov '22

Colleagues, I hope you are all doing well! As you start preparing your spring semester classes, I wanted to highlight two crowdsourced projects from the Networked Mobilities Lab (https://nml.chass.ncsu.edu/) for which we are collecting entries: 1. The Mobile Networked Creativity repository: https://mobilenetworkedcreativity.pubpub.org/ People and communities are constantly finding new uses for existing technologies – things the technology’s designers never intended, and possibly never even considered. To better understand this creative process, I’m part of a team of researchers that is collecting examples of how people are using mobile, networked technologies to accomplish unexpected things – from improving local transportation in low-income communities to sharing information about public health.To identify examples of these innovative efforts, we are enlisting the public’s help. We’ve created a website called the Mobile Networked Creativity Repository <https://mobilenetworkedcreativity.pubpub.org/> to crowdsource examples from around the world. The project is featured here: https://news.ncsu.edu/2022/06/creativity-as-survival/ 2. The Retro Mobile Gaming Database: http://database.mglab.chass.ncsu.edu/ The Retro Mobile Gaming Database (RMGD) contains a collection of mobile games from 1975 to 2008. This database allows users to search games by multiple search criteria including title, year developed, type of game, and more. This search system will help researchers not only to find games but also to create new correlations among historical types of mobile games. The project is featured here: https://news.ncsu.edu/2021/01/tracing-the-history-of-mobile-games/ Our goal is to increase our collection of examples for both of these projects, so I’d like to ask your help in sharing these with your students and/or creating a class project that could ask students to submit entries as part of an assignment. We have done this before in previous classes and students really enjoyed the research experience. I am happy to offer support for these activities and If you have any questions, please do reach out! Best, Adriana _________________________ Adriana de Souza e Silva, Ph.D. University Faculty Scholar | Professor Dept. of Communication | NC State University www.souzaesilva.com <http://www.souzaesilva.com/> The Networked Mobilities Lab https://nml.chass.ncsu.edu <https://nml.chass.ncsu.edu/> _________________________ Adriana de Souza e Silva, Ph.D. University Faculty Scholar | Professor Dept. of Communication | NC State University www.souzaesilva.com <http://www.souzaesilva.com/> The Networked Mobilities Lab https://nml.chass.ncsu.edu <https://nml.chass.ncsu.edu/>

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30+ new cross-discipline Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Professor posts at Lancaster University, UK
by Jacobs, Naomi 21 Nov '22

21 Nov '22

Dear all, There are 30+ new academic positions in the area of Security and Protection Science (Digital) available at Lancaster University, UK, following the university's investment and positioning in the creation of the North West Cyber Corridor. These are permanent, interdisciplinary roles to be based in various departments of the university, available at a range of levels from Lecturer (Assistant Professor equivalent) to Professor. Applications are invited from the following areas that may be of interest to those on this list: Computer Science, Data Science, Design, Digital Health, Engineering, Law, Linguistics, Mathematics and Statistics, all disciplines associated with the Organisation, Business and Management fields, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology. Please do share across your networks. SPS Academic Roles in Security, Protection Science and Related Disciplines - Jobs at Lancaster University (lancs.ac.uk)<https://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=SPS> The closing date for applications is 8th January 2023, salary information is available at the link above. If you would like to know more about Imagination Lancaster<http://imagination.lancaster.ac.uk/> and the School of Design please let me know. All the best, Naomi Dr Naomi Jacobs Lecturer in Design Policy and Futures Thinking Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA) The LICA Building Lancaster University Bailrigg LA1 4WY Pronouns: She/her Because I work flexible hours, you may sometimes receive emails from me outside of your usual working times, and I may not always reply immediately. Regardless of when I sent this email, please do not feel you have to respond outside your own working hours.

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MA Internet Equalities Open Day at University of Arts London
by Peaks Krafft 21 Nov '22

21 Nov '22

Please join this Wednesday 2pm GMT 23rd November for the Creative Computing Institute's MA Internet Equalities open day! Register here: https://www.arts.ac.uk/whats-on/ma-internet-equalities-online-open-day MA Internet Equalities explores how power relations and structures of oppression are organised, embedded and perpetuated by internet technologies. سلام‎ مشمش — P. M. Krafft, PhD (they/them<https://pronoun.is/they/>) University of Arts London Creative Computing Institute Senior Lecturer and Course Leader, MA Internet Equalities<https://www.arts.ac.uk/subjects/creative-computing/postgraduate/ma-internet…> "Wherever you are, it was circled on a map for you." -Hafiz This email and any attachments are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this email and/or its attachments you must not take any action based upon them and you must not copy or show them to anyone. Please send the email back to us and immediately and permanently delete it and its attachments. Where this email is unrelated to the business of University of the Arts London or of any of its group companies the opinions expressed in it are the opinions of the sender and do not necessarily constitute those of University of the Arts London (or the relevant group company). Where the sender's signature indicates that the email is sent on behalf of UAL Short Courses Limited the following also applies: UAL Short Courses Limited is a company registered in England and Wales under company number 02361261. Registered Office: University of the Arts London, 272 High Holborn, London WC1V 7EY

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UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization: Second Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 21 Nov '22

21 Nov '22

*** Second Call for Papers *** UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization June 26 - 29, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.um.org/umap2023/ ACM UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB. User Modeling Inc., as the core Steering Committee, oversees the conference organization. The proceedings, published by ACM, will be part of the ACM Digital Library. The theme of UMAP 2023 is "Personalization in Times of Crisis”. Specifically, we welcome submissions that highlight the impact that critical periods (such as the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing wars, and climate change, to name a few) can have on user modeling, personalization, and adaptation of (intelligent) systems; the focus is on investigations that capture how these trying times may have influenced user behavior and whether new models are required. While we encourage submissions related to this theme, the scope of the conference is not limited to the theme only. As always, contributions from academia, industry, and other organizations discussing open challenges or novel research approaches are expected to be supported by rigorous evidence appropriate to the claims (e.g., user study, system evaluation, computational analysis). IMPORTANT DATES • Paper Abstracts: January 19, 2023 (mandatory) • Full paper: January 26, 2023 • Notification: April 11, 2023 • Camera-ready: May 2, 2023 • Conference: June 26 - 29, 2023 Note: The submissions deadlines are at 11:59 pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth) CONFERENCE TOPICS We welcome submissions related to user modeling, personalization, and adaptation of (intelligent) systems targeting a broad range of users and domains. For detailed descriptions and the suggested topics for each track please visit the UMAP 2023 website. Personalized Recommender Systems This track invites works from researchers and practitioners on recommender systems. In addition to mature research works addressing technical aspects of recommendations, we welcome research contributions that address questions related to user perception, decision-making, and the business value of recommender systems. Knowledge Graphs, Semantics, Social and Adaptive Web This track welcomes works focused on the use of knowledge representations (i.e., novel knowledge bases), graph algorithms (i.e., graph embedding techniques), and social network analysis at the service of addressing all aspects of personalization, user model building, and personal experience in online social systems. Moreover, this track invites works in adaptive hypermedia, as well as semantic and social web. Intelligent User Interfaces This track invites works exploring how to make the interaction between computers and people smarter and more productive, leveraging solutions from human-computer interaction, data mining, natural language processing, information visualization, and knowledge representation and reasoning. Personalizing Learning Experiences through User Modeling This track invites researchers, developers, and practitioners from various disciplines to submit their innovative learning solutions, share acquired experiences, and discuss their modeling challenges for personalized adaptive learning. Responsibility, Compliance, and Ethics Researchers, developers, and practitioners have a social responsibility to account for the impact that technologies have on individuals (users, providers, and other stakeholders) and society. This track invites works related to the science of building, maintaining, evaluating, and studying adaptive systems that are fair, transparent, respectful of users’ privacy, and beneficial to society. Personalization for Persuasive and Behavior Change Systems This track invites submissions focused on personalization and tailoring for persuasive technologies, including but not limited to personalization models, user models, computational personalization, design, and evaluation methods. It also welcomes work that brings attention to the user experience and designing personalized and adaptive behavior change technologies. Virtual Assistants, Conversational Interactions, and Personalized Human-robot Interaction This track invites works investigating new models and techniques for adapting synthetic companions (e.g., virtual assistants, chatbots, social robots) to individual users. With the conversational modality so in vogue across disciplines, this track welcomes work highlighting the model and deployment of synthetic companions driven by conversational search and recommendation paradigms. Research Methods and Reproducibility This track invites submissions on methodologies to evaluate personalized systems, benchmarks, and measurement scales, with particular attention to the reproducibility of results and techniques. Furthermore, the track looks for submissions that report new insights from reproducing existing works. SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS Submissions for any of the aforementioned tracks should have a maximum length of *14 pages* (excluding references) in the ACM new single-column format (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) (Papers of any length up to 14 pages are encouraged; reviewers will comment on whether the size is appropriate for the contribution.) The submission link is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23 . Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and presented at the conference. At least one author should register for the conference by the early registration date cut-off. UMAP uses a *double-blind* review process. Authors must omit their names and affiliations from their submissions; they should also avoid obvious identifying statements. For instance, citations to the authors' prior work should be in the third person. Submissions not abiding by anonymity requirements will be desk rejected. UMAP has a *no dual submission* policy, which is why full paper submissions should not be currently under review at another publication venue. Further, UMAP operates under the ACM Conference Code of Conduct (https://www.acm.org/about-acm/policy-against-harassment) as well as the ACM Publication Policies and Procedures (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies) PROGRAM CHAIRS • Julia Neidhardt, TU Wien, Austria • Sole Pera, TU Delft, The Netherlands TRACK CHAIRS Personalized Recommender Systems • Noemi Mauro (University of Torino, Italy) • Olfa Nasraoui (University of Louisville, USA) • Marko Tkalcic (University of Primorska, Slovenia) Knowledge Graphs, Semantics, Social and Adaptive Web • Daniela Godoy (ISISTAN - CONICET/UNICEN University, Argentina) • Cataldo Musto (University of Bari, Italy) Intelligent User Interfaces • Bart Knijnenburg (Clemson University, USA) • Katrien Verbert (KU Leuven, Belgium) • Wolfgang Wörndl (TU Munich, Germany) Personalizing Learning Experiences through User Modeling • Oleksandra Poquet (TU Munich, Germany) • Olga C. Santos (UNED, Spain) Responsibility, Compliance, and Ethics • Michael Ekstrand (Boise State University, USA) • Peter Knees (TU Wien, Austria) Personalization for Persuasive and Behavior Change Systems • Federica Cena (University of Torino, Italy) • Rita Orji (Dalhousie University, Canada) • Jun Zhao (Oxford University, England) Virtual Assistants, Conversational Interactions, and Personalized Human-Robot Interaction • Li Chen (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong) • Yi Zhang (University of California Santa Cruz, USA) • Ingrid Zukerman (Monash University, Australia) Research Methods and Reproducibility • Dietmar Jannach (University of Klagenfurt, Austria) • Alan Said (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Contact information: umap2023-program(a)um.org

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