LATEST NEWS

• Graduations 2014
  To all the UID group members who received degrees this year — PhD Hubert Pham, MEng Denzil Sikka, and SB Phu Nguyen, Casey O'Brien, Anvisha Pai, Joey Rafidi, Sarah Weir, David Xiao — congratulations and good luck!
• EECS Awards
  Wrapping up a super year of research, Anvisha Pai won an award for SuperUROP Research Presentation, and Sarah Weir won the Fano UROP award.
• At CHI 2014
  Juho Kim presented his work on crowdsourcing workflows for how-to videos, which won an Honorable Mention. Tom Lieber presented Theseus (always-on programming visualizations), and Geza Kovacs presented smart subtitles for foreign-language videos. Finally, Sarah Weir took second place in the undergraduate category of the Student Research Competition with her work on learnersourcing subgoal labels in how-to videos.
• At Learning @ Scale 2014
  UID members had three papers and four posters at this year's first inaugural Learning @ Scale conference in March. Juho Kim presented his paper on video interactions, and Philip Guo presented his papers on video production styles and student demographics. Posters were presented by Elena Glassman, Casey O'Brien, Anvisha Pai, and David Xiao.
• At CSCW 2014
  At this year's CSCW, Rob Miller presented pair research, also known as lab dating, in collaboration with Haoqi Zhang and Liz Gerber (Northwestern) and Eric Gilbert (Georgia Tech).
• In the Popular Press
  Philip Guo's article on Silent Technical Privilege has been republished by Slate and covered in an interview on NPR's Tell Me More.
• Institute Fellowships and Awards
  Elena Glassman is being supported by MIT's Amar Bose Teaching Fellowship for the Spring '14 and Fall '14 semesters of Computer Architecture.
• UIST 2013
  At UIST 2013 in St. Andrews, Scotland, Juho Kim presented the Cobi scheduling tool, a mixed-initiative intelligent interface for conference scheduling using constraints and preferences solicited from the conference community.