Speaker: Pınar Tözün, IT University of Copenhagen (Talk virtually over zoom)
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Speaker: Tianzheng Wang, Simon Fraser University (Talk virtually over zoom)
Professor Ihab Ilyas has been named a 2020 ACM Fellow for his contributions to data cleaning and data integration.
University Professor M. Tamer Özsu has been named a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. This honorary title is awarded to leading professors and scholars of the highest international reputation.
Speaker: Aaron Elmore, University of Chicago
Research Professor Maura Grossman has been named second of five Global Elite Thought Leaders in Litigation in Canada by Who’s Who Legal 2020.
Speaker: Peter Boncz, CWI
Speaker: Jennie Rogers, Princeton University
Speaker: Danqi Chen, Princeton University
Suppose you’re an archivist, librarian, or historian who’s trying to document and preserve for posterity a narrative of the COVID-19 pandemic or the ongoing Black Lives Matters protests. You’ll naturally be gathering documents from the web, and with tools available today it won’t be difficult to accumulate thousands or even millions of relevant records. How can you make sure that a scholar down the road can actually use the material that you’ve collected?