Robert Kubey talks about how media literacy needs to be stressed in the United States education system and why we should be skeptics about the media we consume on a daily basis. Dr. Kubey is professor of Journalism and Media Studies, and director of the Center for Media Studies at Rutgers...
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Nitin Madnani speaking at the School of Communication and Information (SC&I) at Rutgers University on 11/9/11 Abstract: It may be obvious that building a good statistical machine translation (SMT) system requires a lot of bilingual training data. However, what may not be obvious is that the...
Sharad Goel speaking at the School of Communication and Information (SC&I) at Rutgers University on 11/16/11 Abstract: With the increasing availability of network and behavioral data---from what we buy, to where we travel, to whom we know---we are now able to observe and quantify social processes...
Gilad Lotan speaking at the School of Communication and Information (SC&I) at Rutgers University on 1/25/12 Abstract: Being heard isn't so easy in an age when anyone can become a broadcaster. When attention is a scarce commodity, true power lies in understanding how information flows within...