- 2018-12-11: Co-organizing the Wiki Workshop 2019 on May 13/14, 2019, co-located with The Web Conference 2019 in San Francisco – submit a paper or extended abstract!
- 2018-04-30: Co-organizing Computation and Society Workshop at EPFL on May 22, 2018. Join us for this important discussion!
- 2018-04-19: New ICWSM papers released [1, 2, 3].
- 2018-04-19: Google is supporting our lab with a Google Faculty Research Award. Thanks a lot, Google!
- 2018-04-19: Co-organizing a session on Data Science and Machine Learning for Development and Humanitarian Action at the 2018 International Tech4Dev Conference at EPFL on June 27, 2018, with some exciting keynote speakers. (Press)
- 2018-04-06: Bob was quoted in an article about creativity and AI in NZZ am Sonntag (in German; PDF).
- 2018-03-20: Our work on Wikipedia hoaxes mentioned in Motherboard article: Can Wikipedia Solve YouTube’s Conspiracy Theory Problem?
- 2018-03-20: Short video explaining our work on Wikipedia hoaxes.
- 2018-03-16: New Wikimedia Foundation blog post about our ongoing work about why the world reads Wikipedia.
- 2018-03-16: New WWW paper released: When Sheep Shop: Measuring Herding Effects in Product Ratings with Natural Experiments.
- 2017-12-22: Looking forward to the 2018 Applied Machine Learning Days, which we’re organizing at EPFL on January 27–30. Before the main conference, there will be many exciting workshops, including Girlscoding: Teaching Computers How to Think (video).
- 2017-12-19: Join us for the Wiki Workshop 2018 on April 24, 2018, co-located with The Web Conference in Lyon, France – submit a paper or extended abstract!
- 2017-12-19: dlab team (Gael Lederrey, Ramtin Yazdanian, Tiziano Piccardi, Tugrulcan Elmas) wins prize for their entry to the Credit Suisse challenge on fraud and money laundering pattern detection at the LauzHack hackathon.
- 2017-12-01: dlab celebrates its first birthday!
- 2017-05-30: Interview on Radio Télévision Suisse about Growing Wikipedia across Languages via Recommendation (see also: EPFL press release, ANSA article).
- 2017-05-10: Open projects for MS and BS students posted.
- 2017-03-30: We have a postdoc position available. Please help us spread the word, and if you’re a motivated candidate yourself, consider applying!
- 2017-03-16: ICWSM paper published on Armed Conflicts in Online News.
- 2017-03-16: Article on Frontiers Blog about our ongoing project on political rudeness.
- 2017-01-17: Our group is co-organizing the Wiki Workshop 2017 on April 4, 2017, co-located with WWW 2017 in Perth, Australia – consider submitting a paper or extended abstract!
- 2017-01-17: Exciting upcoming event: Applied Machine Learning Days at the SwissTech Convention Center at EPFL on January 30/31, 2017 – register now!
- 2017-01-13: Some good news on this Friday, the 13th: our lab has a name! It’s plain and simple: “Data Science Lab”, or “dlab” for short.
