LATEST NEWS

• Coming up at UIST 2012
  At UIST 2012 in Cambridge, Hubert Pham will present his work on Clui, a new vision of what the desktop should mean for the web world.
• Graduations 2012
  We're both delighted and sad to see Sean Chang, Michael Bernstein, Angela Chang, Elena Tatarchenko, and Max Goldman finish their theses and head off into the wider world. Bonne chance!
• At CHI 2012
  At CHI 2012, Haoqi Zhang's paper about crowdsourcing tasks with global constraints earned an honorable mention for Best Paper, and Geza Kovacs won the undergraduate Student Research Competition!
• Coming up at CSCW 2012
  At CSCW 2012, Katrina Panovich talks about her work on tie strength and question answering on social networks, Juho Kim gives a demo about Photoshop with Friends, and Michael Bernstein is co-author on Who Gives a Tweet? with collaborators from CMU and Georgia Tech.
• IAP contest winners
  Two group members took home prizes in MIT IAP contests: Jones Yu and his team took 3rd place in the 6.570 Mobile App Competition for an app that helps students scavenge food for their survival, and Jessica Lin and her partner took 3rd place in the 6.470 Web Programming Competition, MIT Utility category.
• Juho Kim wins speaking awards
  Juho Kim won awards for two separate deliveries of his survey talk, "Crowdsourcing: Engineering Collective Intelligence": best talk award at the 2011 Samsung Scholarship Academic Camp, and 1st place technical lecture award at the Young Generation Technical and Leadership Conference of the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association. Spreading the word about crowds!