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In this work, we study English-language vaccine discourse in social media posts, specifically posts on X (formerly Twitter), in seven years before the COVID-19 outbreak (2013 to 2019) and three years after the outbreak was first reported…
This volume contains the proceedings of EXPRESS/SOS 2019: the Combined 26th International Workshop on Expressiveness in Concurrency and the 16th Workshop on Structural Operational Semantics, which was held on August 26, 2019, in Amsterdam…
This is the arXiv index for the electronic proceedings of GD 2023, which contains the peer-reviewed and revised accepted papers with an optional appendix. Proceedings (without appendices) are also to be published by Springer in the Lecture…
I present a summary of the last in the series of HERA-LHC workshops, CERN, 26-30th May 2008.
Invited talk at 9th International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS 2001), Bologna, Italy, 27 Apr -1 May 2001
The ability to scale out training workloads has been one of the key performance enablers of deep learning. The main scaling approach is data-parallel GPU-based training, which has been boosted by hardware and software support for highly…
Lecture notes delivered in Barcellona in the fall of 2003
In this paper, we present Duplex Conversation, a multi-turn, multimodal spoken dialogue system that enables telephone-based agents to interact with customers like a human. We use the concept of full-duplex in telecommunication to…
Concluding Remarks of the 270.WE-Heraeus Seminar on Neutron Stars, Pulsars and Supernova Remnants.
This is a colloquium style pedagogical introduction to the paradigm of large extra dimensions. To be published in the Proceedings of the Workshop "Crossing the boundaries: Gauge dynamics at strong coupling," (May 14 - 17, 2009,…
In 2007 an international conference engaged a reflection on the present conditions for sciences and scientific practice, to initiate a dialogue between science, philosophy, epistemology and sociology. Starting from many examples taken from…
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Picture a community torn over a proposed zoning law. Some are angry, others defensive, and misunderstandings abound. On social media, they broadcast insults at one another; every nuanced perspective is reduced to a viral soundbite. Yet,…
The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified numerous social issues that warrant academic investigation. Although information dissemination has been extensively studied, the silenced voices and censored content also merit attention due to their…
This article is an expanded version of my talk at the Gathering for Gardner, 2012.
The advent of arXiv has revolutionized scientific communication. However, its cultural significance goes far beyond simply accelerating scholarly communication. The arXiv gave a powerful impetus to the democratization of science, freeing…
6 pages; Subm. to AIP Conf. Proceedings
We claim, and present evidence, that allowing arXiv publication before a conference or journal submission benefits researchers, especially early career, as well as the whole scientific community. Specifically, arXiving helps professional…
Large language models (LLMs) with reasoning abilities have demonstrated growing promise for tackling complex scientific problems. Yet such tasks are inherently domain-specific, unbounded and open-ended, demanding exploration across vast and…
Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, a significant amount of effort had been put into developing techniques that predict the number of infections under various assumptions about the public policy and non-pharmaceutical interventions. While…