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