Marti Hearst

University of California, Berkeley

William Cohen

Carnegie Mellon University

Samuel Gosling

Univ of Texas, Dept of Psychology

Nicolas Nicolov

J.D.Power and Associates, McGraw-Hill

Matthew Hurst

Microsoft

Chris Diehl

Lawrence Livermore National Labs

Ian Soboroff

NIST

Akshay Java

Microsoft

4th Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

May 23-26, 2010, George Washington University, Washington, DC

Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.


The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media is a unique venue that brings together researchers from the disciplines of NLP, Social Psychology, Data Mining, Sociology and Visualization to increase our understanding of social media in all its incarnations. Research that blends social science and technology is especially encouraged.

The 2010 meeting will be held in Washington DC, where government innovators are experimenting with the use of social media to increase transparency and better engage with the citizenry. The conference will take advantage of this venue to invite leaders from "The Goverati" to share their experiences in the use of social media.

Bob Kraut		Michael Kearns
Carnegie Mellon University		U Penn
Designing Online Communities from Theory		Behavioral Experiments in Strategic Networks

Macon Phillips, U.S. White House, Head of New Media

James Pennebaker, Dept Psychology, U Texas

Nicole Ellison, Dept Telecomm, Mich State

S. Craig Watkins, Dept Radio, TV, Film, U Texas

Don Burke, CIA, Intellipedia

Haym Hirsh, NSF IIS

Google	Microsoft