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IMPECS Workshop on Social Computing

IMPECS Workshop on Social Computing. Niloy Ganguly & Krishna Gummadi. IMPECS: Indo-Max Planck Center for Computer Science. Vision: perform top-quality basic research in Computer Science (CS) in cooperation between Indian and German computer scientists,

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IMPECS Workshop on Social Computing

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  1. IMPECS Workshop on Social Computing Niloy Ganguly & Krishna Gummadi

  2. IMPECS: Indo-Max Planck Center for Computer Science Vision: • perform top-quality basic research in Computer Science (CS) in cooperation between Indian and German computer scientists, • serve as a bridge between the Indian and German CS communities, and enhance scientific cooperation between them, and • act as a center of excellence in which faculty and students can build careers. Funded by DST, BMBF, & Max Planck Society

  3. Max Planck Society • Germany's premier & most successful basic research organization. • 17 Nobel laureates since 1948 • Runs more than 80 Max Planck Institutes (MPIs) conducting research in medicine, biology, chemistry, physics, technology & humanities • Institutes are fairly autonomous

  4. MPIs in CS • MPI for Informatics (since 1990) • Algorithms, Databases, Graphics, Vision, & Computational biology • MPI for Software Systems (since 2005) • Operating / distributed / real-time systems, Networking, Programming languages, Verification, Security, Social web systems

  5. IMPECS group on Online Social Networks • Understanding, Leveraging and Deploying Online Social Networks Collaborators: • Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (Niloy) • MPI for Software Systems, MPI-SWS (Krishna) • Project for 5 years

  6. The Idea IMPECS supports workshops on topics of interest to research groups Choice To make an one-off big workshop with lots of international speakers Do a smaller workshop and try to understand whether a sustainable platform for interaction is possible.

  7. The Idea • People from a lot of fields have began to take interest in social computing • Machine learning/IR • Networks/Systems • Statistical Physics • Sociology/Economics • A huge number customer base existing in India • 50 million Indian Facebook Users

  8. Ideal time to bring in researchers together and exchange ideas

  9. Schedule • Individual Talks • Birds of Feather Session • Dividing social computing into more specific topics and looking whether collaboration can be initiated • Panel Discussion • Publication – roadblocks and solutions • Open House • Towards Community Formation

  10. Individual Talks (9AM – 5PM) • Talk Session 1: Social Web and Social Media • Talk Session 2: Business and the Crowd • Talk Session 3: Linguistic and Cognitive Aspects • Talk Session 4: Network Algorithms and Network Structure

  11. Open Discussion (Today evening) "What can we do as a community to promote social computing research and teaching in India?" (Moderator: Monojit Choudhury)

  12. Birds of the Feather (Tomorrow morning) • Network Science and Social Networks (Champion: Niloy Ganguly) • Learning in networks (Champion: Balaraman Ravindran) • Social Computing in Indian Context (Champion: Monojit Choudhury) • Identity, Anonymity, Privacy, Trust and Reputation in Online Social Networks (Champion: Krishna Gummadi)

  13. Panel Discussion "Towards Community Efforts to Improve National Publishing Record: Roadblocks and Solutions" (Moderator: Balaraman Ravindran, Panelists: Vasudeva Varma, Saikat Guha, Soumen Chakraborti, Animesh Mukherjee, Amit Nanavati)

  14. Concluding Session Next steps and action plan for the community • (Moderator: NiloyGanguly)

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