Thursday, April 1st, 2010 Posted in CnJ, Computational Journalism, Teaching | No Comments »
Final Projects 2010 « Computation + Journalism Class at Georgia Tech. Check out the list of final projects for this term's (Spring 2010) class on Computational Journalism. Final reports expected in ... Read more..Monday, January 11th, 2010 Posted in Computational Journalism, Teaching | No Comments »
Happy 2010! In Spring Term 2010, I am teaching the following two classes. Computation + Journalism (CS 4464 / CS 6465) This class is aimed at understanding the computational and technological advancements in ... Read more..Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 Posted in Computational Journalism, Computational Photography and Video, Kihwan Kim, Modeling and Animation, Papers | No Comments »
Kihwan Kim, Sangmin Oh, Jeonggyu Lee and Irfan Essa (2009), "Augmenting Aerial Earth Maps with Dynamic Information," In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), Orlando, ... Read more..Monday, June 8th, 2009 Posted in Computational Journalism, In The News, Interesting | No Comments »
Can Computer Nerds Save Journalism?, TIME Magazine, by MATT VILLANO, June 8, 2009 EXCERPT "At the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, a three-year-old program in "computational journalism" helps computer-science majors study ... Read more..Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 Posted in Computational Journalism, Computational Photography and Video, Presentations | No Comments »
From Computational Photography and Video to Computational Journalism Irfan Essa Georgia Institute of Technology School of Interactive Computing, GVU and RIM Centers April 21, 2009. (see the video of this presentation) Abstract Our consumption of ... Read more..Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 Posted in ACM UIST/CHI, Computational Journalism, Computational Photography and Video, Nick Diakopoulos | No Comments »
N. Diakopoulos, S. Goldenberg, I. Essa (2009). "Videolyzer: Quality Analysis of Online Informational Video for Bloggers and Journalists." ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). April, 2009. [PDF] ... Read more..Saturday, January 10th, 2009 Posted in Computational Journalism, Presentations | No Comments »
Talk/Presentation at Duke University, Jan 27, 2009. Hosted by James Hamilton, director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy at Duke University Computation & Journalism: The Impact of Technology on Journalism, Information Quality, ... Read more..Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 Posted in Computational Journalism, In The News, Interesting | No Comments »
"Deep Throat Meets Data Mining" by JOHN MECKLIN Dec 23, 2008 in Miller-McCune "If you pay passing attention to the media landscape, you know that most mainstream news outlets have had their business models ... Read more..Saturday, October 18th, 2008 Posted in ACM MM, Computational Journalism, Multimedia, Nick Diakopoulos, Papers | No Comments »
N. Diakopoulos, K. Luther, I. Essa (2008), "Audio Puzzler: Piecing Together Time-Stamped Speech Transcripts with a Puzzle Game." In Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2008. Vancouver, BC, CANANDA ... Read more..Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 Posted in Collaborators, Computational Journalism, Nick Diakopoulos, Projects | No Comments »
An Online DEMO of Videolyzer, a project by my PhD Student, Nick Diakopolous. Videolyzer is a tool designed to help journalists and bloggers collect, organize, and present information about the quality ... Read more..Sunday, September 28th, 2008 Posted in ISWC, Kihwan Kim, Mobile Computing, Papers, Thad Starner | No Comments »
Kihwan Kim, Jay Summet, Thad Starner, Daniel Ashbrook, Mrunal Kapade and Irfan Essa (2008) "Localization and 3D Reconstruction of Urban Scenes Using GPS" In Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on ... Read more..Sunday, September 28th, 2008 Posted in Computational Journalism, Multimedia, Nick Diakopoulos, Papers | No Comments »
N. Diakopoulos, I. Essa. (2008) "An Annotation Model for Making Sense of Information Quality in Online Videos." Proceedings of the International Conference on the Pragmatic Web. 28–30 Sept. 2008, Uppsala, ... Read more..Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 Posted in Computational Journalism, Computational Photography and Video, Presentations | No Comments »
From Computational Photography and Video to Computational Journalism Abstract Digital image capture, processing, and sharing has become pervasive in our society. This has had significant impact on how we create novel ... Read more..Monday, September 1st, 2008 Posted in Computational Journalism, Kishore Ramachandran, Mobile Computing | No Comments »
Award#0834545 - CSR-DMSS, SM: Web on Demand - Bridging the Gap Between Social Networks and Ad Hoc Networking Investigator(s): Umakishore Ramachandran, (Principal Investigator), Irfan Essa (Co-Principal Investigator) Dates: September 1, ... Read more..Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 Posted in Computational Journalism, Events, SIGGRAPH/SCA/NPAR/EG | 3 Comments »
ACM Siggraph 2008 Class on Computional and Journalism Date and Time: Wednesday, 13 August 2008 | 1:45 pm - 5:30 pm Location: Room 502 A, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA, ... Read more..Thursday, August 7th, 2008 Posted in Computational Journalism, Nick Diakopoulos | No Comments »
Audio Puzzler Alpha (ONLINE DEMO) By Nick Diakopoulos (My PhD Student) Audio Puzzler is a new kind of puzzle game based on unauthored content found online. The audio for the puzzles is ... Read more..Thursday, August 7th, 2008 Posted in Computational Journalism, Interesting | No Comments »
The Changing Newsroom | Project for Excellence in Journalism PEJ An analysis of the changing world of Journalism. Worth a read. States how the newsroom and the print media are especially ... Read more..Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 Posted in Computational Journalism, Interesting | No Comments »
The Project for Excellence in Journalism has done an amazing report on "The State of the News Media 2008" with reference to American Journalism. It is a very interesting read and ... Read more..Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Posted in Computational Journalism, Funding | No Comments »
Award#0813831 - Symposium on Computation and Journalism ABSTRACT Fundamentally, journalism is aimed at collecting news information and disseminating that information with a layer of contextualization and understanding provided by journalists. Recent advances ... Read more..Monday, March 3rd, 2008 Posted in Personal | 1 Comment »
Irfan's Office Hacked My students decided to play a very nice joke on me. This morning I walked in to find my office open (and it was not!) check out ... Read more..Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 Posted in Computational Journalism, Events, Nick Diakopoulos | No Comments »
Journalism 3G: The Future of Technology in the Field (A Symposium on Computation and Journalism) was a huge success. We had over 230 registered attendees. Thanks to all ... Read more..Friday, February 15th, 2008 Posted in Events, Nick Diakopoulos | No Comments »
Working with Brad Stenger (Wired), Nick Diakopoulos (GA Tech), Sergio Goldenberg (GA Tech), we are organizing a Symposium on computation+journalism, to bring together computationalists, internet/media experts, and journalists together for ... Read more..Friday, October 26th, 2007 Posted in ACM UIST/CHI, Computational Journalism, Nick Diakopoulos | No Comments »
A. St. Clair, M. Fong, N. Diakopoulos, I. Essa. (2007) "NARC: The News Article Revision Comparator." In Proceedings addendum of User Interface Software Technology (UIST). Newport, Rhode Island, October 2007 ... Read more..Sunday, September 17th, 2006 Posted in Brad Stenger, Computational Journalism, Nick Diakopoulos, Projects | No Comments »
Computational and Journalism (Journalism 3G) Between the advent of the printing press and the rise of the Internet, more than 500 years passed without another technological advancement that significantly empowered the ... Read more..