Abstract Will the proliferation of data enable AI to deliver progress? An ever-growing swath life is available as digitally captured and stored records. Effective government, business management, even personal are increasingly suggested be a matter using interpret act on data. This optimism should tempered with caution. Data cannot capture much richness life, while has great potential for benef...

Jeffrey Heer Berkeley Institute of Design and Computer Science Division University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1776 USA [email protected] The immersive and compelling nature of many social visualizations arise not only from the nature and presentation of the data under consideration, but also from the social interactions, both implicit and explicit, surrounding the use of the...

A variety of bibliometric measures have been proposed to quantify the impact of researchers and their work. The h-index is a notable and widely-used example which aims to improve over simple metrics such as raw counts of papers or citations. However, a limitation of this measure is that it considers authors in isolation and does not account for contributions through a collaborative team. To add...

It is difficult for most of us to imagine making sense of the social world without automatically thinking about the beliefs, emotions, desires, and intentions of other people. Picture yourself in a preschool classroom. You see a boy and a girl rushing to the painting easels in the art area. The girl quickly dons a painting apron. The boy is turning his head back and forth with a frown on his fa...