Talks & Lectures
TITLE: "Bibliometrics: The limitations and possibilities"
LEADER: Brenda Thomson (TWC)
DATE: TUES, 28 Feb, 6p (pizza, salad and pies!! at 5:30p)
LOCATION: Winslow 1140
Webex: https://rensselaer.webex.com/meet/erickj4
TWed VIDEOS: http://bit.ly/twed_twc_rpi
TITLE: "Working with Wikidata"
LEADER: Sola Shirai (TWC)
DATE: TUES, 21 Feb, 6p (pizza & salad at 5:30p)
LOCATION: Winslow 1140
Webex: https://rensselaer.webex.com/meet/erickj4
TWed VIDEOS: http://bit.ly/twed_twc_rpi
DESCRIPTION: The TW Portal <http://tw.rpi.edu> is the Tetherless World's public face. Now in its second generation, this Drupal-based service provides a rich set of resources about ongoing TWC research, publications, courses, students and staff. It also features integrated media such as announcements, news items and videos.
Prof. Bruce F. Chorpita, Professor of Psychology and Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA will provide an overview of historical models for addressing mental health challenges in clinical science, articulating how they evolved, and outlining some of the current limitations and opportunities.
TITLE: "Exploring (digital) tools for academic note-taking and writing"
LEADER: Alexander (Sasha) Lutsevich
DATE: Weds, 09 Nov, 6p
LOCATION: Winslow 1140
Webex: https://rensselaer.webex.com/meet/erickj4
TWed VIDEOS: http://bit.ly/twed_twc_rpi
KEYWORDS: Writing, digital tools, workflows
Please join us Weds, 2 Nov (6p CII3206 and CII3211; pizza 5:30) as John Erickson leads a discussion and tour of the Rensselaer IDEA Campfire, a multi-user, collaborative, immersive visualization environment. The Campfire is a desk-height, 10-foot panoramic screen (the "Wall") and floor projection ("Floor") that users gather around and look into, maintaining contact with one another with no artificial or virtual barriers between themselves as they observe and engage with presentations and applications.
DESCRIPTION: Link prediction methods can be a valuable tool to identify new or missing facts in a knowledge graph, and in research involving the use of KGs it also can serve as a baseline method to perform tasks like item recommendation or disease diagnosis. Among the many models that can perform this task, rule-based models can be particularly useful, as they provide an inherent level of explainability and can more easily be applied to previously-unseen entities.
Whyis 2.0 is an extensible, open source knowledge graph development framework that is also an effective research platform. We will present the Whyis architecture and development method. We will then give a brief demonstration of the Whys "out of box" experience by installing it and creating a simple knowledge graph using example data, and using the Whyis exploration and visualization tools.
Tetherless World Education and Discussion (TWed) Talks are are informal overview discussions and tutorials on topics of interest to the Tetherless World community and give members and friends the chance to share tools and expertise. View the recording from TWC’s most recent TWed talk which took place in November 2021.
Plan to join us WEDS, 09 Dec for a very, VERY special TWed as the Tetherless World Constellation holds another "virtual" version of our end-of-term Graduate Research
"Lightning Talks." TWed Lightning Talks are a great way for the TWC community and friends to learn of the wide range of amazing research happening in the Tetherless World, and "a good time is had by all!"
Lightning talks are VERY short --- approx. 2-3 minute! --- summaries by our students of current research work, with no NO SLIDES and only brief "crib notes."