Fall 2012 -- INF384H / CS395T: Concepts of Information Retrieval (and Web Search)

Spring 2012 -- CS395T / INF385T: Crowdsourcing: Theory, Methods, and Applications
Spring 2012 -- INF383D: Mathematical Foundations of Information Studies

Calendar of UT Austin iSchool's upcoming events and colloquia
Crowdsourcing Reading Group

Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2012 (July)
SIGIR 2012 Tutorial: Exploring the Intersection of Social and Algorithmic Search: Crowdsourcing and Human Compuatation (with Omar Alonso)
Invited talk at MetroCon 2012: The Rise of Crowd Computing (October 11)
TREC 2012 Crowdsourcing Track (Nov 7-9)
2012 Special issue of Springer's Information Retrieval on Crowdsourcing

SBP 2012 Invited Talk for Challenge Award (April 3, slides)
IJCNLP 2011 Invited Keynote Crowd Computing: Opportunities and Challenges (Nov 10, slides)
CrowdConf 2011 Tutorial: Crowdsourcing for Research & Engineering (with Omar Alonso, Nov 1, press, slides)
SIGIR 2011 Tutorial on Crowdsourcing for Information Retrieval: Principles, Methods, and Applications (with Omar Alonso, July 24, slides)
UT Austin School of Information Advisory Council talk: Crowdsourcing & Human Computation (April 15, 2011)
UT Austin Linguistics Colloquium: Crowdsourcing for Natural Language Processing (February 28, 2011, slides, MTurk data)
WSDM 2011 Tutorial: Crowdsourcing 101: Putting the WSDM of Crowds to Work for You (with Omar Alonso, February 9, slides)

SWIRL 2012: Second Strategic Workshop on Information Retrieval in Lorne
NAACL-HLT 2012 Area Chair for IR & QA
SIGIR 2011 Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Information Retrieval (July 28, 2011)
WSDM 2011 Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Search and Data Mining (CSDM 2011), with Vitor Carvalho and Emine Yilmaz (February 9, 2011)
TREC 2010 Relevance Feeback Track, with Chris Buckley and Mark Smucker (November 17-19, 2010)
SIGIR 2010 Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Search Evaluation (CSE2010), with Vitor Carvalho and Emine Yilmaz (July 23, 2010)

Data-intensive computing for computational journalism

• REACTION: Retrieval, Extraction and Aggregation Computing Technology for Integrating and Organizing News (see initial announcement)
• Data-Intensive MapReduce Computing at UT Austin: see news story (March 11, 2011) & initial announcement
  
• Amazon Web Services research grant (March 22, 2010)

Amazon Web Services research grant for Crowdsourcing with Mechanical Turk (September 2010)
Google Android for Education technology grant (April 24, 2010)

Prospective graduate students: Graduate Study in IR at UT Austin
Prospective visiting scholars: apply here
Undergraduates: inquire regarding research opportunities or visit EUREKA!

Software & Data (NAACL-AMT'10, ECIR'09, TREC-RF'08, IJCNLP'05 -- still yet to be posted: SIGIR'09)

Hohyon Ryu, School of Information
Hyunjoon Jung, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Wei Tang, Computer Science

School of Information 2011 Spring Open House (May 6, 2011)
School of Information 2010 Fall Technology Showcase (December 3, 2010)
The First UT Austin Workshop on Student Research in Information Retrieval and Web Search (May 7 & 13, 2010)

Brown Laboratory for Linguistic Information Processing (BLLIP), Department of Computer Science, Brown University
Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR), Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst (lab reunion at SIGIR'09)
Spoken Language Systems Laboratory (LSV), Saarland University
Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (UFAL), Charles University