AI Magazine - Spring 2018

(IUNI). Before joining Indiana University, he was an analyst for the Wikimedia Foundation, and a research associate at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. He is interested in information quality in cyber-human systems, in particular the trustworthiness and reliability of information in intelligent systems. His work has been covered in major news outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Wired, MIT Technology Review, NPR, and CBS News.

Alexios Mantzarlis leads the International Fact-Checking Network at the Poynter Institute. Mantzarlis has helped draft the fact-checkers’ code of principles, shepherded a partnership between third-party fact-checkers and Facebook, testified to the Italian Chamber of Deputies on the fake news phenomenon, and helped launch International Fact-Checking Day. He previously served as managing editor of Pagella Politica and FactCheckEU, respectively Italy’s main political fact-checking website and the EU’s first multilingual crowd-checking project. While at Pagella Politica, he presented weekly fact-checking segments on Virus, a prime-time talk show airing on Italy’s national broadcaster RAI 2. Before becoming a fact-checker, he worked for the United Nations and the Italian Institute for International Political Studies.

Gregory Maus is a PhD student in informatics at Indiana University, Bloomington. His work on social bots, personal data brokers, and algorithmic sociological influence has been featured in IEEE Spectrum, Foreign Affairs, and Real Clear Technology.

Filippo Menczer is a professor of informatics and computer science at Indiana University, Bloomington. He holds a Laurea in physics from the Sapienza University of Rome and a PhD in computer science and cognitive science from the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Menczer is an ACM Distinguished Scientist. He previously served as division chair and director of the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research at the IUB School of Informatics and Computing. His research focuses on web and data science, social network analysis, social computation, web mining, and modeling of complex information networks. His work on the spread of information and misinformation in social media has been covered in many US and international news sources, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, NPR, PBS, CNN, BBC, the Economist, the Guardian, the Atlantic, Reuters, Science, and Nature. Menczer serves as associate editor of the Network Science journal and on the editorial boards of EPJ Data Science and PeerJ Computer Science.

AIIDE- 18 to be Held in Edmonton, Canada

Please join us for AIIDE- 18, to be held in mid-November at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. AIIDE- 18 is the next in an annual series of conferences showcasing interdisciplinary research on modeling, developing, and evaluating intelligent systems in entertainment. AIIDE- 18 provides a meeting place for academic AI researchers and professional software developers to discuss the latest advances in entertainment-focused AI. The conference has a long-standing history of featuring research on artificial intelligence in computer games. We also invite researchers, developers, and digital artists to share ideas on topics at the intersection of all forms of entertainment and artificial intelligence broadly. AIIDE- 18 will feature invited speakers, paper sessions, workshops, tutorials, playable experiences, panels, posters, the Starcraft AI Competition, and a doctoral consortium.