Agenda: 4th CSS Conference
April 11, 2014
8:45am to 10:30am - Diffusion of Sentiment and Community Building Online
Matt Jackson
William D. Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University
Centrality and Diffusion
Sep Kamvar
LG Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT
Designing Large-Scale Social Systems
10:45am to 12:30pm - Computation and Markets
Harikesh Nair
Associate Professor of Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business
Computational Incentive Design for Improved Workplace Analytics
Video available here.
Kay Giesecke
Associate Professor of Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University
Systemic Mortgage Defaults
Neel Sundaresan
Chief of Research at eBay
What's 'Like' Got to Do With It? - When Commerce Meets Social
Video available here.
1:30pm to 3:15pm - Health and Computational Social Science
Russ Altman
Professor of Bioengineering, Genetics, and Medicine at Stanford University
Using Search Logs to Infer Drug Side Effects
Video available here.
Rob Munro
CEO and co-founder of Idibon
Crowdsourcing and Natural Language Processing for the Social Good
Video available here.
Dennis Wall
Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Systems Medicine and Associate Professor by courtesy in the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford University
Leveraging YouTube, Home Videos, and Artificial Intelligence for Rapid and Mobile Detection of Autism
3:30pm to 5:15pm - Social Movements and Social Media
Michael Bernstein
Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University
Breaking the Expertise Barrier in Crowdsourcing
Video available here.
Jacob Eisenstein
Assistant Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology
Stylistic Diversity and Hidden Structure in Online Writing
Video available here.
Sarah Soule
Morgridge Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business
Protest Event Data: New Models for an Old Staple
Video available here.
