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Outsized Publication Impact of Kno.e.sis and Some of Its Students
The World Wide Web (WWW or the Web) has been one of the most important high-tech areas. Today’s biggest corporations such as Google and Facebook are all poised in unique positions because they make the Web more useful and provide new functions. In this important area, did you know our own Wright
NSF-funded Research and Crowdsourcing Come Together during the Chennai Floods
The objective of the recently awarded NSF project Social and Physical Sensing Enabled Decision Support for Disaster Management and Response is to use physical and social data to improve situational awareness during natural disasters. Prof. Sheth and his students at the Kno.e.sis center working on
Wright State University researchers are developing new software that can detect cyberbullying. The new software can search social media sites, like Facebook and Twitter, and detect messages that may be offensive or hurtful — and then alert the person who’s being targeted. …
Teams successful at the Regional ACM Contest
The three top teams from our ACM programming contest competed in the 2015 East Central NA Regional Contest on October 31, 2015. They were up against teams from Ohio State University, Miami University, and Purdue University among others. Overall our teams held their own. The Wright Team consisting of
DaSeLab at ISWC2015
Seven members of the Data Semantics Lab – Reihaneh Amini, David Carral, Michelle Cheatham, Pascal Hitzler, Amit Joshi, Adila Krisnadhi, Raghava Mutharaju – attended ISWC 2015 this year, which took place last week in Bethlehem, PA. And we kept rather busy there. The activities we were involved in
Researchers at Wright State's Kno.e.sis center are developing computer technology to analyze social media posts in an effort to identify and reduce cyberbullying.

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