Main navigation | Main content
A recent article on big data in the Twin Cities Business Journal features the work of CS&E alumni Prasanna Desikan and Robert Cooley and Professor Jaideep Srivastava. Desikan is senior scientific advisor for the Center for Healthcare Research & Innovation at Allina Health System in Minneapolis, and Cooley is chief technology officer for OptiMine Software, Inc. Cooley and Desikan both received their Ph.D.s from the University of Minnesota.
The article, "The Many Uses of Big Data," discusses the overwhelming volume of data that is being created, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day, and how that data is being used in healthcare, policing and multiplayer online games. Read the full article on the Twin Cities Business Journal website.
Professor Joe Konstan has been selected to receive the 2013 SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award. The SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award goes to individuals who have contributed to the growth of SIGCHI in a variety of capacities, and honors individuals who have provided extended services to the community at large over a number of years. Professor Konstan will be honored at the SIGCHI Awards Banquet held on Sunday, April 28, 2013 at CHI 2013, and in the SIGCHI President's Welcome.
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI), the Journal of Personalization Research has awarded Professors Joe Konstan and John Riedl the 2012 James Chen Annual Award for Best Journal Article for their paper Recommender Systems: from Algorithms to User Experience (UMUAI 22(1-2):101–123). The article was selected based on nominations from journal reviewers, editorial board members and guest editors, and a subsequent comparative review of the shortlisted papers by an award committee.
The James Chen Annual Award for Best Journal Article has been donated by the Chen family in commemoration of James R. Chen, a creative researcher in the area of user modeling and information retrieval, and twice a UMUAI author. The award carries a cash price of US$ 1,000.
John Collins, Maria Gini, Alok Gupta, and Paul Schrater together with Wolfgang Ketter of Erasmus University have received a 2012 INFORMS ISS Design Science Award for their work Design of Automated Agents Capable of Recognizing and Forecasting the Economic Environment. The purpose of the Design Science Award of the INFORMS Information Systems Society (ISS) is to promote and recognize research efforts centered on the design and realization of innovative information technology (IT) artifacts.
Judges for the award commented, "This work is outstanding. The authors have combined design science principles and economic theory to design and evaluate specific artifacts but also to develop “design theory” for software agents. The evaluation is well-conceived and convincing." The full annoucement can be found here.
Please e-mail suggested news and event items to:
