Web, Mobile and Multimedia Technologies
Available Speakers and their Lectures on this Topic
Mehdi Bahrami – Santa Clara, CA, United States
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Advancing AGI: From Training and Fine-Tuning to Interactive Agent Development
This talk begins by tracing the history of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and discusses potential advancements and future directions. AGI can enhance not only the capability of...
Athman Bouguettaya – Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Managing Web Services
Service computing is the next major evolution of computing that aims at transforming data into artefacts that are acted upon, i.e., services. In that respect, service computing may be viewed...
Duncan P Brumby – London, United Kingdom
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The Smartphone Paradox: Essential Yet Distracting
How often do you check your phone? If you’re like most people, it hasn’t been long. Smartphones, the defining innovation of the last two decades, have revolutionized how we...
Erik Brunvand – UT, United States
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Technological Fluency through Circuit Bending
Electronic technology is pervasive in our modern world but how it actually works can be a mystery to many people. In 1999 and 2002 the National Research Council (NRC) released influential...
Xin Luna Dong – Seattle, WA, United States
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Next-generation Intelligent Assistants for Wearable Devices
An intelligent assistant shall be an agent that knows you and the world, can receive your requests or predict your needs, and provide you the right services at the right...
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The Journey to a Knowledgeable Assistant
For decades, multiple communities (Database, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Data Mining, AI) have pursued the mission of providing the right...
Ashutosh Dutta – Laurel, MD, United States
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Systems Optimization in Mobility Management
As mobile networks continue to grow and converge with the Internet, new wireless devices and their use are outnumbering the use of fixed network. Mobility management needs to meet the requirements...
Manoj Kumar Kumar – Sydney, Australia
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Empathy-Driven Engineering: Integrating Accessibility & Human Computer Interaction into Digital Transformation.
Digital transformation is now the holy grail of IT organizations. However, most companies are striving towards engineering excellence with processes like the Continuous Delivery process and...
- The Evolution of Browser Automation Frameworks in JavaScript.
The landscape of web development has been significantly shaped by the emergence of browser automation frameworks. These frameworks have evolved to become indispensable tools for developers,...Seng Loke – Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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Algorithms for Cooperative IoT: From Edge Computing to Social Vehicles
Current technology trends including edge cloud computing, IoT and device mesh, crowd computing, the sharing economy, and collective computing, involve pooling together human and machine resources...
Steven Pemberton – Amsterdam, Netherlands
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On the Design of the URL
Notations can affect the way we think, and how we operate: consider as a simple example the difference between Roman Numerals and Arabic Numberals: Arabic Numerals allow us not only to more...
- Web n+1: Start Planning Now!
The Web has turned into a programming environment, turning its back on its earlier roots of simplicity and ease-of-use, and in the process many properties of the early web have been...Silvio Peroni – Bologna, Italy
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Broadening the use of Semantic Web data through interfaces
Any strategy that guarantees the broad adoption of Semantic Web technologies must address the need for improved human interaction with semantic models and data. While research has been undertaken...
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Open citations in Informatics
In this talk, I introduce the concept of open citations and how it is strongly tied with that of the Web by presenting the main historical milestones – in terms of standards, guidelines, and...
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Semantic Publishing: scholarly publishing within the Semantic Web era
The scholarly communication domain has been involved in several revolutions concerning how scientific knowledge has been shared in the past 300 years. Gutenberg's introduction of the print and...
Nishanth Sastry – London, United Kingdom
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"Covfefe", or understanding online interactions at scale
Online platforms have enabled people to get together and express opinions at a scale unprecedented in history. Online interactions can range from an inconsequential ‘like’ of a...
- Monitoring & Mitigating Online Harms to Safeguard Democracy
Web and Social Media offer powerful means for citizens to connect directly with their elected represent, but online harms such as hateful or partisan speech present an important threat to...- Redecentralising the Web: Potentials, Pitfalls and Forward Trajectories
In recent years, new decentralised social platforms such as Mastodon and BlueSky have gained enormously in popularity. This talk will show large-scale measurements to help understand the reasons...- Untangling the Web by tracking our trackers
The Web has evolved into a complex ecosystem -- visiting one website may actually involve a large number of other third party domains such as advertisers and analytics companies, which place...Chun Jason Xue – Kowloon, Hong Kong
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On Optimizing Mobile Memory Management
Current Mobile Operating System such as Android inherits Linux kernel. As a result, designs that targeted servers are now applied in mobile...
Justin Zobel – Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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Search, society, and the global information ecology
Search technology was originally developed in the field of information retrieval as a computational replacement for the physical indexes used for libraries, but today is a key enabler of...
- Monitoring & Mitigating Online Harms to Safeguard Democracy
- Web n+1: Start Planning Now!
- The Evolution of Browser Automation Frameworks in JavaScript.
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Next-generation Intelligent Assistants for Wearable Devices
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Technological Fluency through Circuit Bending
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Managing Web Services