Week Ending 06.23.19

 

RESEARCH WATCH: 06.23.19

 
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Over the past week, 938 new papers were published in "Computer Science".

Over the past week, 77 new papers were published in "Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence".

  • The paper discussed most in the news over the past week was "ARCHANGEL: Tamper-proofing Video Archives using Temporal Content Hashes on the Blockchain" by Tu Buiet al (Apr 2019), which was referenced 24 times, including in the article Can Anything Protect Us From Deepfakes? in PCMag Australia. The paper author, John Sheridan(Monash University), was quoted saying "Exploring blockchain technology together with some of the world's leading archives, the ARCHANGEL project has shown, for real, how archives might combine forces to protect and assure vital digital evidence for the future. ARCHANGEL has been an outstanding partnership that has delivered ground breaking research into the practicalities of using blockchain to assure trust in large scale digital archives." The paper got social media traction with 43 shares. A Twitter user, @JCollomosse, said "ARCHANGEL fuses Blockchain and AI to help secure the integrity of National Archives around the world Check our talk at the CVPR Blockchain workshop (June 17). Project page".

  • Leading researcher Sergey Levine (University of California, Berkeley) published "When to Trust Your Model: Model-Based Policy Optimization" The investigators study the role of model usage in policy optimization both theoretically and empirically.

Over the past week, 174 new papers were published in "Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition".

Over the past week, 24 new papers were published in "Computer Science - Computers and Society".

  • The paper discussed most in the news over the past week was by a team at Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence: "Gender trends in computer science authorship" by Lucy Lu Wang et al (Jun 2019), which was referenced 14 times, including in the article Computer Science Research Gender Gap Won’t Close for 100 Years in New York Times. The paper author, Oren Etzioni (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence), was quoted saying "We were hoping for a positive result, because we all had the sense that the number of women authors was growing". The paper got social media traction with 17 shares. On Twitter, @nicklocatelli posted "👩🏼‍🔬#⃣👨🏼‍🔬💻 A comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of Computer Science literature (2.87 million papers through 2018) reveals that, if current trends continue, parity between the number of male and female authors will not be reached in this century".

  • The paper shared the most on social media this week is "Gender gaps in urban mobility" by Laetitia Gauvin et al (Jun 2019) with 59 shares. The researchers present recent results on urban mobility from a gendered perspective by uniquely combining a wide range of datasets, including commercial sources of telecom and open data. @MarbleData (Marble Data) tweeted "So proud of this work!🚗🚕🚌🚎🚲🚶🏻‍♀️cities are not designed in a neutral way. Without putting the spotlight on these disparities, change cannot happen and cities are not inclusive #gender #mobility".

Over the past week, 21 new papers were published in "Computer Science - Human-Computer Interaction".

This week was very active for "Computer Science - Learning", with 358 new papers.

Over the past week, 12 new papers were published in "Computer Science - Multiagent Systems".

Over the past week, 15 new papers were published in "Computer Science - Neural and Evolutionary Computing".

This week was active for "Computer Science - Robotics", with 53 new papers.


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