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Report: $50M seed fund will target health IT startups Permalink
Stephanie Baum. Report: $50M seed fund will target health IT startups. MedCityNews. March 22, 2016. https://medcitynews.com/2016/03/seed-stage-health-it-startups/
David Lee is back with a new fund: Refactor Capital Permalink
Connie Loizos. David Lee is back with a new fund: Refactor Capital. TechCrunch. March 22, 2016. https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/22/david-lee-is-back-with-a-new-fund-refactor-capital/
Meet the mods behind the fastest-growing subreddit: r/Coronavirus Permalink
Emma Betuel. Meet the mods behind the fastest-growing subreddit: r/Coronavirus. Inverse. March 14, 2020. https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/the-mods-behind-the-fastest-growing-covid-19-subreddit
How Reddit’s coronavirus community became a destination Permalink
Olivia Solon & April Glaser. How Reddit's coronavirus community became a destination. NBC News. March 18, 2020. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/how-reddit-s-coronavirus-community-became-destination-n1162661
How Reddit’s Coronavirus Community Became A Global Lifeline Permalink
Josh Swartz, James Lindberg, & Amory Siverston. How Reddit's Coronavirus Community Became A Global Lifeline. NPR's Endless Thread Podcast. March 27, 2020. https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2020/03/27/reddit-coronavirus-lifeline
What It’s Like To Moderate Reddit’s Wildly Popular Coronavirus Forum Permalink
Mirel Zaman. What It’s Like To Moderate Reddit’s Wildly Popular Coronavirus Forum. Refinery29. April 15, 2020. https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/04/9683043/reddit-coronavirus-forum-moderator-interview
Burnout, splinter factions and deleted posts: Unpaid online moderators struggle to manage divided communities Permalink
Heather Kelly. Burnout, splinter factions and deleted posts: Unpaid online moderators struggle to manage divided communities. Washington Post. August 25, 2020. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/08/25/volunteer-moderators-2020/
In 2020, the work of volunteer internet moderators is harder and more important than ever Permalink
Brent Bambury. In 2020, the work of volunteer internet moderators is harder and more important than ever. CBC Radio. September 11, 2020. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/in-2020-the-work-of-volunteer-internet-moderators-is-harder-and-more-important-than-ever-1.5719796
publications
Co-author relationship prediction in heterogeneous bibliographic networks
Published in ASONAM, 2011
New feature framework for making predictions about network formation
Citation: Sun, Y., Barber, R., Gupta, M., Aggarwal, C. C., & Han, J. (2011, July). Co-author relationship prediction in heterogeneous bibliographic networks. In Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 2011 International Conference on (pp. 121-128). IEEE. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/10f2/72220cbca311c8379a72f9d5ba387b18c437.pdf
Hylien: A hybrid approach to general list extraction on the web
Published in WWW, 2011
Extracting lists on the web
Citation: Fumarola, F., Weninger, T., Barber, R., Malerba, D., & Han, J. (2011, March). Hylien: A hybrid approach to general list extraction on the web. In Proceedings of the 20th international conference companion on World wide web (pp. 35-36). ACM. http://wwwconference.org/proceedings/www2011/companion/p35.pdf
Growing parallel paths for entity-page discovery
Published in WWW, 2011
Automatically discovering entity pages online
Citation: Weninger, T., Fumarola, F., Lin, C. X., Barber, R., Han, J., & Malerba, D. (2011, March). Growing parallel paths for entity-page discovery. In Proceedings of the 20th international conference companion on World wide web (pp. 145-146). ACM. http://www.ramb.ethz.ch/CDstore/www2011/companion/p145.pdf
Hylien: A hybrid approach to general list extraction on the web
Published in WWW, 2011
Extracting lists on the web
Citation: Fumarola, F., Weninger, T., Barber, R., Malerba, D., & Han, J. (2011, March). Hylien: A hybrid approach to general list extraction on the web. In Proceedings of the 20th international conference companion on World wide web (pp. 35-36). ACM. http://wwwconference.org/proceedings/www2011/companion/p35.pdf
Arnold: Declarative Crowd-Machine Data Integration
Published in CIDR, 2013
Trading off cost and quality in hybrid algorithmic/crowd sourced learning systems
Citation: Jeffery, S. R., Sun, L., DeLand, M., Pendar, N., Barber, R., & Galdi, A. (2013). Arnold: Declarative Crowd-Machine Data Integration. In CIDR. http://www.ramb.ethz.ch/CDstore/www2011/companion/p145.pdf
Using narratives as a source to automatically learn phenotype models
Published in DMMI, 2014
Mining medical records for meaningful patient cohorts
Citation: Agarwal, V., Lependu, P., Podchiyska, T., Barber, R., Boland, M., Hripcsak, G., & Shah, N. (2014). Using narratives as a source to automatically learn phenotype models. In Workshop on Data Mining for Medical Informatics. http://www.dmmh.org/dmmi2014_submission_4.pdf
When the Platform User Fights Back (with Software)
Published in The Ethical machine, 2019
An argument for how tech can be put to work for users
Citation: Barber, R., Sundaram, H. (2019, May). When the Platform User Fights Back (with Software). In The Ethical Machine, Shorenstein Center, Harvard Kennedy School. https://ai.shorensteincenter.org/ideas/2019/4/3/when-the-platform-user-fights-back-with-software
A Slow Algorithm Improves Users’ Assessments of the Algorithm’s Accuracy
Published in CSCW, 2019
Slower is better for some algorithms
Citation: Park, J.S., Barber, R., Kirlik, A., Karahalios, K. 2019. A Slow Algorithm Improves Users' Assessments of the Algorithm’s Accuracy. J. ACM 37, 4, Article 111 (August 2019). https://barber5.github.io/files/slow.pdf
talks
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teaching
Course Assistant, CS181 Computers, Ethics, and Public Policy
Stanford University, 2012
Office hours, discussion section, course management for a CS ethics course. Taught for 3 quarters.
Course Assistant, CS 183 Startup
Stanford University, 2012
Office hours and logistics for the one-time course taught by Peter Thiel on startups.
Head Course Assistant, E245 The Lean Launchpad
Stanford University, 2017
Office hours, logistics, and management of other TAs for project-based startup course taught by Steve Blank, popularizer of so-called lean startup methodology
Instructor, CS 361 Probability & Statistics for Computer Scientists
University of Illinois, 2017
I taught this course as an instructor before joining the PhD program. Course description: Introduction to probability theory and statistics with applications to computer science. Topics include: visualizing datasets, summarizing data, basic descriptive statistics, conditional probability, independence, Bayes theorem, random variables, joint and conditional distributions, expectation, variance and covariance, central limit theorem. Markov inequality, Chebyshev inequality, law of large numbers, Markov chains, simulation, the PageRank algorithm, populations and sampling, sample mean, standard error, maximum likelihood estimation, Bayes estimation, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, linear regression, principal component analysis, classification, and decision trees.
Teaching Assistant, CS598HS Advanced Social and Information Networks
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2019
Office hours, course design, course management, and lectures on algorithmic game theory, behavioral economics, and incentives in online platforms.
Teaching Assistant, CS498CD Cyber Dystopia
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2019
Office hours, course management, and lecturing for a course on the social implications of ubuiquitous software.