Spring 2012
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| Date | Presenter | Title of Talk / Information |
| Tuesday, January 31st Reception: 3:45 - 4:15pm Upson 4th floor Atrium. Talk: 4:15-5:30pm Upson, B-17 |
Scott Klemmer, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University
Host: Jeff Hancock |
The Power of Examples |
| Wednesday, February 15th Reception: 3:45 - 4:00p 301 College Ave. Talk: 4:00-5:15p 301 College Ave., Seminar Room |
Peter Pirolli, Research Fellow in the Augmented Social Cognition Area, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) Host: Phoebe Sengers |
Information Foraging in the Social Web |
| Wednesday, March 7th Reception: 3:45 - 4:00p 301 College Ave. Talk: 4:00-5:15p 301 College Ave., Seminar Room |
My Favorite Paper II, Dan Cosley, Steve Wicker, Jeff Hancock, | |
| Wednesday, March 28th Reception: 3:45 - 4:00p 301 College Ave. Talk: 4:00-5:15p 301 College Ave., Seminar Room |
Rick Wash, Assistant Professor, Department of Telecommunications, Information Studies, and Media, Michigan State University Host: Dan Cosley |
Thinking and Talking About Computer Security |
| Thursday, March 29th Reception: 11:30 - 12:00p 301 College Ave. Talk: 12:00-1:15p 301 College Ave., Seminar Room |
Nicole Immorlica, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University Host: Eva Tardos |
Emergence of Cooperation in Social Networks |
| Thursday, April 5th Reception: 11:30 - 12:00p 301 College Ave. Talk: 12:00-1:15p 301 College Ave., Seminar Room |
Jason Hartline, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University Host: David Easley |
Auction Theory by Approximation |
| Wednesday, April 25th Reception: 3:45 - 4:00p 301 College Ave. Talk: 4:00-5:15p 301 College Ave., Seminar Room |
Tom Erickson, Research Staff Member in the Social Computing Group at IBM Research Host: Phoebe Sengers |
Creating a Sense of Presence in Online Systems: Social Proxies from Babble to Rendezvous |
| Thursday, April 26th Reception: 11:30 - 12:00p 301 College Ave. Talk: 12:00-1:15p 301 College Ave., Seminar Room |
Arpita Ghosh, Senior Research Scientist at Yahoo! Research in the Microeconomics and Social Systems Group Host: Eva Tardos |
Social Computing and User Generated Content: A Game-theoretic Approach |
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