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Past Events
2013
15/05/2013,
Traverse City, Michigan, USA
Dr. Patrick Meier, Director of Social Innovation at QCRI, speaks at TEDx in Traverse City, Michigan
WebQuality2013: 3rd Joint WICOW / AIRWeb Workshop on Web Quality
13/05/2013,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Dr. Carlos Castillo, Senior Scientist, Social Computing at QCRI , organizes a workshop on the sidelines of the 22nd International World Wide Web Conference that will focus on the credibility and quality issues on the Web and in Social Media
13/05/2013,
Rio de Janiero, Brazil
Dr. Carlos Castillo, Senior Scientist of Social Computing at QCRI, will give an invited talk at this event.
22nd International World Wide Web Conference
13/05/2013 - 17/03/2013,
Rio de Janiero, Brazil
QCRI's Social Computing team will participate in this annual conference.
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2013)
12/05/2013 - 15/05/2013,
Baden Baden, Germany
Dr. Imran Muhammed, of QCRI's Social Computing team, will present two papers at ISCRAM.
22/04/2013,
Tornado Tower, 5th Floor, West Bay, Doha
QCRI hosts a talk by experts Mr. Eric Winsborrow and Dr. Craig Schultz of ZanttZ, Inc on the History and Future of Cyber Warfare.
19/04/2013 - 20/04/2013,
San Francisco, California, USA
Patrick Meier delivers a keynote on Digital Humanitarians at the 4th annual Sage Bionetworks Commons Congress
29th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2013)
08/04/2013 - 12/04/2013,
Brisbane, Australia
Our Data Analytics team will be at ICDE in Brisbane. Related papers being presented are:
- On the Relative Trust between Inconsistent Data and Inaccurate Constraints
- Holistic Data Cleaning: Put Violations Into Context
- Inferring Data Currency and Consistency for Conflict Resolution
Dr. Patrick Meier discusses Next Generation Humanitarian Technology
03/04/2013,
Tornado Tower, Doha, Qatar
Concepts such as crowdsourcing, microtasking and machine learning are introduced using intuitive real world examples.
19/03/2013,
Qatar National Convention Centre, Doha
QCRI and Boeing leadership come together for a signing ceremony commemorating joint collaboration on projects.
In the News
The Role of Technology in Crisis Management and How it Could Be Done Better
08/05/2013
QCRI's Patrick Meier discusses technology and crisis management with Chicago Policy Review.
Can 'Verily' build a smarter social media for disasters?
08/05/2013
QCRI's Patrick Meier talks with Foreign Policy Magazine about sharing information during a crisis, and verifying that information for aid.
06/05/2013
QCRI's partnership with the World Bank, UN Agencies and Data Kind is discussed in this article about data analysis. Originally published in the Harvard Business Review.
Upcoming Events
2013
29/05/2013,
Rhodes Island, Greece
Dr. Halima Bensmail, Senior Scientist of QCRI's Scientific Computing team, is an Invited speaker at the PETRAE, giving a talk on “Time course and Neural Representation of Memorability: faces and places: an alpha-sparse model for classifying memorability regions”
For more info on PETRAE please visit www.petrae.org
09/06/2013 - 14/06/2013,
Atlanta, Georgia USA
The North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) Annual Conference takes place in Atlanta, Georgia (USA) from June 9 - 14, 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.
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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