It's been a while that I've written an actual blog post here. Most of my posts have been microblog updates on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, and since I use ping.fm, some of them may have shown up on my blog. To be frank, I really do not blog as much as I used to, I just find microblogging much easier and faster than having to think about what exactly I should write (like writing a paper or article, which takes much more thought and time). But anyways, I thought I should write at least one blog post here on the last day of 2010, New Year's Eve in Beijing.
As I reflect on this year, I've done so much and I'm very grateful that everything has been successful and very good. Workwise, research wise and family wise. As everybody knows or now knows, I moved to Beijing to work with Nokia Research Center about 2.5 years ago in July 2008 right before the Beijing Olympics. I'm now adjusted to living here, accustomed to the food (mind you the Beijing style of food is not much to my liking, I love Cantonese food much better and love going back to Guangzhou and Hong Kong :)). My wife and I have met wonderful new friends along the way, both Chinese and foreign, and life here is just great.
Research wise, you can see my list of research achievements with publications, workshops and presentation from my web page. My Chinese Mandarin is much improved as much of my Chinese friends here in Beijing would say, and now I can carry on a meeting with my teammates completely in Chinese. Writing, on the other hand, is still not as good, but at least now I can start to write SMS messages in Chinese (surprising a lot of people, but it's nice to know pinyin so you can write).
I'm still busy as always, organizing monthly dinners in Beijing for colleagues and friends, and organizing research seminars in the Nokia Research Center Beijing office, as well as workshops at conferences, reviewing papers, as well as writing papers, giving presentations, and leading mobile social networking projects in NRC Beijing. I even wrote a mobile social networking article (English but translated into Chinese) for NRC Beijing's Sina blog. I'm particular proud of Nokia Find & Connect, a project which I started and am leading, there is a video of this here.
On the personal side, my wife and I have three rabbits at home and two female rabbits gave birth to 20 baby rabbits! It was the first time that we raised rabbits from birth, but it was very special indeed. Not sure that we would do this again though. Pictures of the rabbits can be seen on my Facebook page.
Despite being busy, one has to always remember that family comes first, so I always try to find activities and trips for my wife and I to go to. My wife means the world to me and I love her so much. As well, I am regularly participate and sometime lead the bible studies at my Catholic Church here in Beijing, as well as am the lector.
As for New Year's resolutions, I have three. One, to regularly do exercise and get back to the gym (which I've done on and off). Two, sleep earlier, I right now sleep way too late and get too little sleep. Three, to start a family.
So, all in all, it has been a wonderful 2010 year. I hope 2010 has been good to you as well. Cheers to 2010 and let's welcome 2011 with an even success, prosperity, happiness and most important peace in this world.
You can catch up with me more frequently by adding me to Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn.
God bless you all for 2011.
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Checking out Chinese mobile social networking site http://bit.ly/cAmea8 created by Orange Labs Beijing #mobilesocialnetwork
Monday, September 27, 2010
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Sunday, August 01, 2010
After Din Tai Fung, went to Panasonic Center to see 3D TV, Lumix cameras, and other electronics stuff http://bit.ly/d8pdvh #beijing
Went to Din Tai Fung for lunch for dumplings, one of top 10 restaurants in world from NY Times in 1993! #beijing http://bit.ly/dC2YUK
Friday, July 30, 2010
Monday, May 31, 2010
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
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Friday, March 26, 2010
Call for papers: Workshop on Modeling Social Media, part of Hypertext 2010 Conference in Toronto, Canada
Please distribute to others and apologies for duplicates in advance. We highly encourage submissions from sociologists and should be an interesting workshop.
http://kmi.tugraz.at/workshop/MSM10/Call-for-Papers-MSM%272010.txt
CALL FOR PAPERS
==========================================================
International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM'2010)
http://kmi.tugraz.at/workshop/MSM10/
to be held on June 13, 2010, Toronto, Canada
colocated with Hypertext 2010
==========================================================
Important Dates:
* Submission Deadline: April 9, 2010
* Notification of Acceptance: May 13, 2010
* Final Papers Due: May 20, 2010
* Workshop date: June 13, 2010, Toronto, Canada
Workshop Organizers:
* Alvin Chin, Nokia Research Center, Beijing, China
* Andreas Hotho, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
* Markus Strohmaier, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Format of the Workshop:
The workshop will be opened by an invited talk given by Ed Chi (Palo Alto Research Center). The talk will be followed by a number of peer-reviewed research and position paper presentations and a discussion panel including Barry Wellman (University of Toronto), Marti Hearst (University of California, Berkeley) and Ed Chi (Palo Alto Research Center).
Submissions:
We solicit position papers (2 pages), demonstration and short research papers (4 pages) as well as full research papers (8 pages) in ACM SIG proceedings format. Information about the submission system will be released on the workshop website soon.
Workshop Overview:
In recent years, social media applications such as blogs, microblogs, wikis, news aggregation sites and social tagging systems have pervaded the web and have transformed the way people communicate and interact with each other online. In order to understand and effectively design social media systems, we need to develop models that are capable of reflecting their complex, multi-faceted socio-technological nature. While progress has been made in modeling particular aspects of selected social media applications (such as the architecture of weblog conversations, the evolution of wikipedia, or the mechanics of news propagation), other aspects are less understood.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
+ new modeling techniques and approaches for social media
+ models of propagation and influence in twitter, blogs and social tagging systems
+ models of expertise and trust in twitter, wikis, newsgroups, question and answering systems
+ modeling of social phenomena and emergent social behavior
+ agent-based models of social media
+ models of emergent social media properties
+ models of user motivation, intent and goals in social media
+ cooperation and collaboration models
+ software-engineering and requirements models for social media
+ adapting and adaptive hypertext models for social media
+ modeling social media users and their motivations and goals
+ architectural and framework models
+ user modeling and behavioural models
+ modeling the evolution and dynamics of social media
Objectives and Goals:
The goal of this workshop is to focus the attention of researchers on the increasingly important role of modeling social media. The workshop aims to attract and discuss a wide range of modeling perspectives (such as justificative, explanative, descriptive, formative, predictive, etc models) and approaches (statistical modeling, conceptual modeling, temporal modeling, etc). We want to bring together researchers and practitioners with diverse backgrounds interested in 1) exploring different perspectives and approaches to modeling complex social media phenomena and systems, 2) the different purposes and applications that models of social media can serve, 3) issues of integrating and validating social media models and 4) new modeling techniques for social media.
The workshop reflects on the emerging phenomenon "social media" that includes social and real-time applications such as blogs, wikis, microblogs, instant messaging, discussion groups, chats, social networks, photo sites, etc. Our current understanding of social media is hampered by different formats, the dynamic nature of social media, and a plethora of approaches to modeling and understanding social media. This workshop aims to start a dialogue aiming to reflect upon and discuss these issues.
This workshop is intended as a tool to build a community of researchers sharing an interest in modeling and to start a dialogue on modeling social media.
Workshop Attendees:
Participants who do research or have an interest in theoretical and practical models for social media.
Preliminary Program Committee (confirmed):
* Ansgar Scherp, Koblenz University, Germany
* Roelof van Zwol, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain
* Marti Hearst, UC Berkeley, USA
* Ed Chi, PARC, USA
* Peter Pirolli, PARC, USA
* Steffen Staab, Koblenz University, Germany
* Barry Wellman, University of Toronto, Canada
* Daniel Gayo-Avello, University of Oviedo, Spain
* Jordi Cabot, INRIA, France
* Pranam Kolari, Yahoo! Research, USA
* Tad Hogg, Institute for Molecular Manufacturing, USA
* Wai-Tat Fu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
* Thomas Kannampallil, University of Texas, USA
* Justin Zhan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
* Marc Smith, ConnectedAction, USA
Proceedings:
We intend to publish workshop proceedings containing all accepted papers.
Thanks.
Alvin
----------
Alvin Chin
Senior Researcher
Mobile Social Networking Group
Nokia Research Center Beijing
Web: http://research.nokia.com/people/alvin_chin
Contribute to our target of 115 million active Ovi users in June 2010: http://www.ovi.com
http://kmi.tugraz.at/workshop/MSM10/Call-for-Papers-MSM%272010.txt
CALL FOR PAPERS
==========================================================
International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM'2010)
http://kmi.tugraz.at/workshop/MSM10/
to be held on June 13, 2010, Toronto, Canada
colocated with Hypertext 2010
==========================================================
Important Dates:
* Submission Deadline: April 9, 2010
* Notification of Acceptance: May 13, 2010
* Final Papers Due: May 20, 2010
* Workshop date: June 13, 2010, Toronto, Canada
Workshop Organizers:
* Alvin Chin, Nokia Research Center, Beijing, China
* Andreas Hotho, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
* Markus Strohmaier, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Format of the Workshop:
The workshop will be opened by an invited talk given by Ed Chi (Palo Alto Research Center). The talk will be followed by a number of peer-reviewed research and position paper presentations and a discussion panel including Barry Wellman (University of Toronto), Marti Hearst (University of California, Berkeley) and Ed Chi (Palo Alto Research Center).
Submissions:
We solicit position papers (2 pages), demonstration and short research papers (4 pages) as well as full research papers (8 pages) in ACM SIG proceedings format. Information about the submission system will be released on the workshop website soon.
Workshop Overview:
In recent years, social media applications such as blogs, microblogs, wikis, news aggregation sites and social tagging systems have pervaded the web and have transformed the way people communicate and interact with each other online. In order to understand and effectively design social media systems, we need to develop models that are capable of reflecting their complex, multi-faceted socio-technological nature. While progress has been made in modeling particular aspects of selected social media applications (such as the architecture of weblog conversations, the evolution of wikipedia, or the mechanics of news propagation), other aspects are less understood.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
+ new modeling techniques and approaches for social media
+ models of propagation and influence in twitter, blogs and social tagging systems
+ models of expertise and trust in twitter, wikis, newsgroups, question and answering systems
+ modeling of social phenomena and emergent social behavior
+ agent-based models of social media
+ models of emergent social media properties
+ models of user motivation, intent and goals in social media
+ cooperation and collaboration models
+ software-engineering and requirements models for social media
+ adapting and adaptive hypertext models for social media
+ modeling social media users and their motivations and goals
+ architectural and framework models
+ user modeling and behavioural models
+ modeling the evolution and dynamics of social media
Objectives and Goals:
The goal of this workshop is to focus the attention of researchers on the increasingly important role of modeling social media. The workshop aims to attract and discuss a wide range of modeling perspectives (such as justificative, explanative, descriptive, formative, predictive, etc models) and approaches (statistical modeling, conceptual modeling, temporal modeling, etc). We want to bring together researchers and practitioners with diverse backgrounds interested in 1) exploring different perspectives and approaches to modeling complex social media phenomena and systems, 2) the different purposes and applications that models of social media can serve, 3) issues of integrating and validating social media models and 4) new modeling techniques for social media.
The workshop reflects on the emerging phenomenon "social media" that includes social and real-time applications such as blogs, wikis, microblogs, instant messaging, discussion groups, chats, social networks, photo sites, etc. Our current understanding of social media is hampered by different formats, the dynamic nature of social media, and a plethora of approaches to modeling and understanding social media. This workshop aims to start a dialogue aiming to reflect upon and discuss these issues.
This workshop is intended as a tool to build a community of researchers sharing an interest in modeling and to start a dialogue on modeling social media.
Workshop Attendees:
Participants who do research or have an interest in theoretical and practical models for social media.
Preliminary Program Committee (confirmed):
* Ansgar Scherp, Koblenz University, Germany
* Roelof van Zwol, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain
* Marti Hearst, UC Berkeley, USA
* Ed Chi, PARC, USA
* Peter Pirolli, PARC, USA
* Steffen Staab, Koblenz University, Germany
* Barry Wellman, University of Toronto, Canada
* Daniel Gayo-Avello, University of Oviedo, Spain
* Jordi Cabot, INRIA, France
* Pranam Kolari, Yahoo! Research, USA
* Tad Hogg, Institute for Molecular Manufacturing, USA
* Wai-Tat Fu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
* Thomas Kannampallil, University of Texas, USA
* Justin Zhan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
* Marc Smith, ConnectedAction, USA
Proceedings:
We intend to publish workshop proceedings containing all accepted papers.
Thanks.
Alvin
----------
Alvin Chin
Senior Researcher
Mobile Social Networking Group
Nokia Research Center Beijing
Web: http://research.nokia.com/people/alvin_chin
Contribute to our target of 115 million active Ovi users in June 2010: http://www.ovi.com
Monday, March 22, 2010
Sunday, January 03, 2010
First snowfall in Beijing this year in 2010! And the most snow in 60 years, ah memories of back in Toronto! http://ping.fm/WKu5q #beijing #snow #2010
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