Agenda: 3rd CSS Conference
September 27, 2013
9:15am to 10:15am - Keynote
Duncan Watts
PRINCIPAL RESEARCHER AT MICROSOFT RESEARCH NYC
Computational Social Science: Exciting Progress and Grand Challenges
10:30am to 3:15pm - Social Media and Social Interaction
Dan Edelstein
PROFESSOR OF FRENCH AND, BY COURTESY, HISTORY, STANFORD UNIVERSITY
From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: Social Media in the Enlightenment
Ed H. Chi
STAFF RESEARCH SCIENTIST, GOOGLE
The Science of Social Interactions on the Web
Susan Athey
PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, STANFORD UNIVERSITY
The Internet and the News Media
1:00pm to 2:30pm - Social Design and User Behavior
Scott Klemmer
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, UCSD
Design at Large
Eytan Bakshy
DATA SCIENTIST, FACEBOOK
Peer Effects and Social Product Design
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE SWS
No Country for Old Members: User Lifecycle and Linguistic Change in Online Communities
2:45pm to 4:30pm - Knowledge and Information
Percy Liang
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, COMPUTER SCIENCE, STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Learning Natural Language Semantics
Rakesh Agrawal
MICROSOFT TECHNICAL FELLOW AND HEAD OF SEARCH LABS, MICROSOFT RESEARCH
Reimagining Educational Materials
Dafna Shahaf
POST-DOCTORAL SCHOLAR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Metro Maps of Information
Mark Musen
M.D., PH.D., PROFESSOR OF BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS, STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Now Everyone’s a Philosopher! The Social Construction of Ontologies for e-Science