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2013
20 year Anniversary Colloquium i6 RWTH
05/07/2013,
Aachen, Germany
QCRI Principal Scientist, Stephan Vogel, is an invited speaker at this event.
In the News
QCRI partners with Data Science for Social Good program
13/06/2013
QCRI will work the University of Chicago, Datakind and others in a fellowship program that promotes using data science for social good.
QCRI intern has one of the winning concepts in an OpenIDEO/USAid challenge
13/06/2013
The competition involved innovative ideas to gather information from hard-to-access areas to prevent mass violence against civilians. Out of 166 participating projects from all over the world, the ...
QCRI scientists recognized with best paper at ISCRAM 2013
22/05/2013
Extracting Information Nuggets from Disaster Related Messages in Social Media authored by QCRI's Muhammad Imran, Carlos Castillo, Patrick Meier, former QCRI post-doc Shady Elbassuoni and Fernando Diaz of Microsoft Research was recognized as the best paper at this year's ISCRAM conference.
Upcoming Events
2013
22/06/2013 - 27/06/2013,
New York, New York, USA
Our Data Analytics team will be at 2013 SIGMOD / PODS in New York. The team will present two papers.
7th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media
08/07/2013 - 10/07/2013,
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
QCRI's Social Computing research team will participate in this gathering of social scientists and technologists.
The 36th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference
28/07/2013 - 01/08/2013,
Dublin, Ireland
QCRI's Arabic Language Team will participate and present its research at this year's SIGIR conference.
Press Releases
QCRI invites applicants for summer internships
08/05/2013
Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) will be kicking off its 2013 summer internship program soon, and invites computer science and computer engineering students to apply. The intensive two-month internship program provides students with the opportunity to work closely with top researchers, and receive practical work experience based on their studies. Applications will be accepted until May 12, 2013.
Presenting a Vision for the Future of Humanitarian Technology
31/03/2013
Dr Patrick Meier, Director of Social Innovation at Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) and the world’s foremost expert on humanitarian technology, explores the rise of digital humanitarian response and how new technologies are reshaping the humanitarian space in an upcoming talk.
QCRI and Boeing to collaborate on Data Analytics Research
24/03/2013
Joint project will seek to identify patterns in large data streams
Research collaboration broadens Boeing engagement in Qatar, strengthens relationship with Qatar Foundation
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