Congratulations to Sara Javanmardi, a Ph.D. student in Informatics working with Prof. Crista Lopes, on placing third in an international competition for detecting vandalism in Wikipedia.
Vandalism has always been one of Wikipedia’s biggest problems, yet there are only few automatic countermeasures. Instead, volunteers spend their time in reverting vandalism edits — time, which is not spend on improving other parts of the Wikipedia. The goal of the evaluation campaign was to research and develop new, reliable ways to detect vandalism edits, which can be used to aid Wikipedia.
Sponsored by Yahoo! Research, the competition is part of the fourth International Workshop on Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse PAN-10 will be held as an evaluation lab in conjunction with the Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation in Padua, Italy.
Full ICS press release here.
Full details of the contest can be found here.
Congratulations Sara and Crista!
IBM Programming Contest - February 8th, 2007
“On February 5, IBM announced the “Cell/B.E. University Challenge 07,” a
programming contest specifically created for university students and
offering cash prizes to the winners. * As IBM does not often sponsor
contests, I wanted to make sure you knew this was coming and could help
encourage participation with your partnership university. Winners of
the “Cell/B.E. University Challenge 07,” chosen by a panel of academic
and IBM technical experts, will receive prizes with a cash value ranging
from $10,000 USD for the first place winner to $2,500 USD for the fourth
place winner. ”
Click on the image on the left for details
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