During a recent research trip to the US, Prof. Jan Servaes met with academics and policymakers to discuss the draft of the policy report “Future Imperatives of Communication for Sustainable Development and Social Change”. He was also interviewed by Jarice Hanson about this report and the new World Bank Global Practices program on ’Technology Matters’.
The 4-day Departmental PhD Student Workshop concluded on April 25 with a party of drinks and pizza, donated by Dr. Marko Skoric and Prof. Jonathan Zhu (http://weblab.com.cityu.edu.hk/blog/project/workshops/). “Beyond the drinks and pizza, we will also be missing the food for thoughts provided in the four days,” several participants reflected on the workshop, which is the
Invited by the China Computer Federation (CCF), Prof. Jonathan Zhu gave a talk at a Seminar of Young Computer Scientists and Engineering Forum (YOCSEF) on Computational Perspectives in Social Sciences on April 25, 2014. CCF is the largest society of computer professionals in the world with more than 20,000 members from universities, research
An in-house workshop on Web Mining kicked off on April 22 (http://weblab.com.cityu.edu.hk/blog/project/workshops/). Third four people from the Department of Media and Communication participated in the workshop, including 5 faculty members, 20 PhD students, and 9 visiting scholars from mainland China. The 4-day Workshop introduced, on a step-by-step basis, how to collect, preprocess, analyze, and visualize
