Registration is still open for RocData: The Rochester Big Data Initiative, which will be hosted by the Department of Computer Science from October 4-6, 2012. Space is limited, so please register ASAP. For more information regarding this conference, please go to the Conference website:
http://www.rochester.edu/rocdata/index.html
At the 2012 ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining held in February in Seattle, our research team of Adam Sadilek, Henry Kautz and Jeff Bigham received the Best Paper Award for the conference. The paper, entitled "Finding Your Friends and Following Them to Where You Are" was chosen from 75 papers presented at the conference.