Activity Log 2014 – Web Science Lab

WSL members participated in the CDS six-monthly workshop at IIIT-B. November 26 2014.
Sweety Agrawal. Presented a paper entitled “Integrity Management in a Trusted Utilitarian Data Exchange Framework” at ODBASE 2014, Amantea, Italy, October 29 2014.
Srinath Srinivasa. Presented WSL and CDS at Ericsson Research, Bangalore. Sep 23 2014.
Sumant Kulkarni. Successfully completed the comprehensive exam and thesis proposal seminar, qualifying him for candidature towards a PhD. September 18 2014.
Sumant Kulkarni, Srinath Srinivasa. Attended review meeting for the project on Intelligent Workflow Management. EMC Bangalore HQ, Mahadevapura. Aug 18 2014.
Srinath Srinivasa. Presented WSL and CDS at KayBus Bangalore office. August 14 2014.
Srinath Srinivasa. Delivered an invited talk entitled Towards a “Mindful” Web at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. July 28 2014.
Srinath Srinivasa. Invited by School of Computer Scinence and Statistics and School of Digital Humanities at Trinity College, Dublin for exploring research collaborations. July 27–31 2014.
Aastha Madaan joined WSL as post doctoral research faculty on 23 July 2014.
Srinath Srinivasa. Attended the second NRDMS review meeting for the Sandesh project at NSDI office, New Delhi. 22 July 2014.
Jayati Deshmukh. Successfully defended MTech thesis entitled, “Evolution of Cooperation with Entrenchment Effects.” 16 June 2014.
OSL members hosted CrossCurrents, an Indo-UK workshop on the use of digital technology for culture preservation. May 12-14 2014. Photos from the workshop.
Srinath Srinivasa. Presented a paper at IIWeb 2014 at Chicago, Illnois, USA. March 31 2014.
Chinmay Jog, Sweety Agrawal. Attended ACM CoDS 2014 at New Delhi to present a paper. March 21-23 2014.
OSL members hosted a talk, “Towards Intelligent Information Infrastructure” by Prof. Pete Edwards, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, 6 Feb 2014.
Srinath Srinivasa. Delivered an invited talk entitled: Utilitarian Aggregation of Open Data at the Social Media Workshop, organized by the British High Commission at IIIT Bangalore. Feb 5-6, 2014.
Nisha Bhasia, Tuli Kundu, Divya Maharshi. Organizational volunteers for Social Media Workshop, organized by the British High Commission at IIIT Bangalore. Feb 5-6, 2014.
OSL members hosted a talk, “From Big Data to Smart Data” by Prof. Amit Sheth, Wright University. 6 Jan 2014.
Srinath Srinivasa. Program Committee member for the 10th ICDE Workshop on Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb), Chicago, Illonis, USA, March 2014.
Srinath Srinivasa. Program Committee member for XRCI 2014, Xerox Research Center India Research Symposium, Bangalore, India, March 2014.
Srinath Srinivasa. PC Member and Publicity Chair of 7th India Software Engineering Conference (ISEC 2014), Chennai, India, February 2014.