Hypertext conference starts next week

There's only 4 days until the Hypertext conference starts in Manchester, England. It looks to be a great programme of papers and events. I'll be presenting my paper on "Identifying Subcommunities in Social Hypertext" on September 12 at 12 pm, yes right before lunch!

I look forward to meeting with people from last year's Hypertext which I presented, and meeting with new people.

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Looking for faculty positions or industry research jobs

I'm planning to finish my PhD by the end of this year, and will be on the market for a full-time job in academia or industry research for beginning to middle of next year 2008. If you know of any openings for next year in social computing and pervasive computing, let me know by e-mailing me at achin AT cs DOT toronto DOT edu. You can see my list of publications here.

Camera ready of Hypertext paper submitted and CASCON short paper accepted!

I just submitted the camera ready version of the short paper for the Hypertext conference called Identifying Subcommunities Using Cohesive Subgroups in Social Hypertext. It was a challenge to take the originally submitted 8 page full paper and cut it down to 4 pages, but I believe it's more focussed. The Hypertext conference is in Manchester, UK and goes from September 10 to 12. I will post the paper just right after the conference.

On another note, I also got another paper accepted to the CASCON conference in October in Toronto. It's also a short paper and I'm right now working on the camera ready version. So look for both papers towards September, as well as podcasts and slides from my talks. They will be nice additions of case studies to my PhD thesis.

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Map of online communities

Check out this really great map of online communities! The size of the geographic region is proportional to the estimated size of membership.



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