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Google Computational Journalism Research Awards launch in Europe
Thursday, June 18, 2015
Posted by Andrea Held, Google University Relations & Matt Cooke, Google News Lab Europe
Journalism is evolving fast in the digital age, and researchers across Europe are working on exciting projects to create innovative new tools and open source software that will support online journalism and benefit readers. As part of the wider Google
Digital News Initiative
(DNI), we invited academic researchers across Europe to submit proposals for the Computational Journalism Research Awards.
After careful review by Google’s News Lab and Research teams, the following projects were selected:
SCAN: Systematic Content Analysis of User Comments for Journalists
Walid Maalej
, Professor of Informatics, University of Hamburg
Wiebke Loosen
, Senior Researcher for Journalism, Hans-Bredow-Institute, Hamburg, Germany
This project aims at developing a framework for the systematic, semi-automated analysis of audience feedback on journalistic content to better reflect the voice of users, mitigate the analysis efforts, and help journalists generate new content from the user comments.
Event Thread Extraction for Viewpoint Analysis
Ioana Manolescu
, Senior Researcher, INRIA Saclay, France
Xavier Tannier
, Professor of Computer Science, University Paris-Sud, France
The goal of the project is to automatically build topic "event threads" that will help journalists and citizens decode claims made by public figures, in order to distinguish between personal opinion, communication tools and voluntary distortions of the reality.
Computational Support for Creative Story Development by Journalists
Neil Maiden
, Professor of Systems Engineering
George Brock
, Professor of Journalism, City University London, UK
This project will develop a new software prototype to implement creative search strategies that journalists could use to strengthen investigative storytelling more efficiently than with current news content management and search tools.
We congratulate the recipients of these awards and we look forward to the results of their research. Each award includes funding of up to $60,000 in cash and $20,000 in computing credits on Google’s Cloud Platform. Stay tuned for updates on their progress.
2011 EMEA Android Educational Outreach Program Awards Mobile Phones to Universities
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Posted by David Harper, Head of University Relations, EMEA
As part of EMEA’s 2011 Android Educational Outreach program, we recently granted over 300 Android-powered mobile phones to 40 universities across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. These phones will be used to support mobile related project work in university teaching and research. Our steering committee reviewed applications from 77 universities in 24 countries across the region and selected finalists based on each proposal’s scope to generate interest in mobile engineering, reach many students, and be applicable both within and outside the university.
This is the second year we have awarded mobile phones to universities. This is largely attributable to the enthusiastic feedback from last year’s recipients who were interested in continued support for Android project work. The phones donated last year were used in a range of interesting projects, including:
George Candea
, EPFL (Switzerland): The
Pocket Campus
, an application that helps students, graduates, staff and visitors to find their way around the EPFL campus was created as a course project. After the course, some of the students decided to continue development of the application. It has become so successful that it’s now EPFL’s campus-wide smartphone app.
Andrew Rice
, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom): Students in the
summer programme
developed
Learn!
, a flashcard-based learning application that is available in Android Market. This project investigated how one might incorporate features of modern phones such as multimedia capture and playback, data communications and significant computation power into a learning application.
Alan Smeaton
and colleagues, Dublin City University (Ireland): Undergraduate, master’s, and PhD students embarked on a wide variety of projects, which included lifelogging (recording everyday activities using the phone); measuring the strengths of wireless networks as an aid to mapping wireless propagation; and interface design for an augmented reality application.
Nicolae Tapus
, University Politehnica of Bucharest (Romania): Numerous applications were developed by students, including: TaxiFinder, an application that finds the closest taxi number with the lowest price, and Viewlity, an augmented reality engine for showing nearby points of interest (e.g., gas stations, restaurants, ATMs, places of worship) on an Android phone.
Gerhard Tröster
, ETH Zurich (Switzerland):
Martin Wirz
and his team are using mobile phones to conduct research in the field of
wearable computing
and machine learning. The devices are used to collect all kinds of sensor information (e.g., accelerometer, magnetometer, microphone, GPS) to infer personal activities, psychological behaviors and social phenomena.
We are looking forward to sharing the great projects resulting from this year’s Android Educational Outreach program early next summer.
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