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Year: 2019

Research Talk Notice: When AI encounters Arts and Humanities – Dec 19, 2:00 PM at CMU 202

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Dr. Bolei Zhou, an Assistant Professor from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, is invited to present his research work at UW. Dr. Zhou has been awarded the MIT Tech Review’s Innovators under 35 in Asia-Pacific. His research is at the intersection of AI and Arts. He has been working on scene recognition and creation using Deep Learning and GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks). His innovative work helps us to better understand the thorny DeepFakes and also shed light on a potential direction in Place-Based GIScience….

Undergraduate Student Research Assistant Recruitment

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The HGIS lab plans to recruit several student volunteers for an ongoing project to understand how TikTok (a social media video app) serves as an emotional care space for Chinese older people. The completion of this project highly relies on collecting social media data from TikTok, analyzing, and visualizing such a big dataset, and finally, we hope to draw meaningful insights from the empirical study. The project is currently recruiting undergraduate research assistants to help with data gathering and data analysis….

“GIScience in the Post-Truth Era” Session at the Denver AAG

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The word “post-truth” was named the 2016 Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionary due to its spiking appearance in social media and news coverage of the Brexit referendum and the U.S. presidential election. While the ramifications of post-truth have focused on social, political, and ethical concerns, the issue advocates for a new and critical view of spatial information, especially the fake spatial information in social media (e.g. Facebook check-in, geotagged tweet, location-based review). The inconsistency between the fake spatial…