Last week I talked about academic communities that I would like to be part of, and this time I will continue by focusing on several venues that I hope to have my work in sooner or later. A venue in this context means a journal or a conference where I will "publish or perish" in.
1) International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM)
ICWSM is an interdisciplinary conference sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). ICWSM brings together researchers and industry leaders interested in creating and analyzing social media. Past conferences have included technical papers from areas such as computer science, linguistics, psychology, statistics, sociology, multimedia and semantic web technologies.
The 3rd ICWSM will be held May 17-20, 2009 in San Jose, California.
Though ICWSM is a relatively brand-new conference, it has strong committee members from Google, Microsoft, NIST, Facebook and so on. I personally believe that this conference will be a golden chance especially for those who seek internship opportunities at such institutions. As far as I know, past acceptance rates were higher than 20%. People interested in participating should submit through the ICWSM-09 website a technical paper (up to 8 pages), poster or demo description (up to 2 pages) by January 21, 2009 (Midnight PST). Papers must be must be formatted in AAAI two-column, camera-ready style.
There are NOT many conferences that contains "A.I." in their names. ICWSM has very good reputation, and I expect it to be a place where I can socialize with the great people in A.I field.
2) iConference organized by iCaucus member schools
The 4th iConference will be held Feb 8-11, 2009 at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Contributed papers presenting original research, design products, theoretical developments, educational applications and engagement implications related to one or more of the conference themes will be considered. Papers should be 5-8 pages in length and suitable for publication in scholarly or professional journals. This conference also requires to use the official ACM Proceedings Format for all submissions.
The deadline for submission of complete papers, abstracts for posters, roundtable discussions, and wildcard sessions is Sunday, November 30, 2008. Authors will be notified of review decisions by Monday, December 22, 2008.
This is a "must-attend" conference to me. It doesn't seem to be very competitive yet, but it is one and only one conference that I can meet people from other iSchools and see what they are working on. Perhaps I can find a good partner for interdisciplinary research, if I am lucky. Hope it be a place where I feel proud that I am an iSchool student and I am part of iSociety... haha.
3) ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining,
The annual ACM SIGKDD conference is the premier international forum for data mining researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to share their ideas, research results and experiences. KDD-09 will feature keynote presentations, oral paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, tutorials, panels, exhibits, demonstrations, and the KDD Cup competition.
The 15th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining will take place in Paris, France on June 28 - July 1, 2009. Important dates are
- Abstract Submission: February 2, 2009
- Electronic Paper Submission: February 6, 2009
- Notification: April 10, 2009
- Conference Dates: June 28 - July 1, 2009
This is one of the most prestigious and rigorous conferences in my research area. I would love to attend this conference not just because of the fame but the romantic place that I haven't ever been in yet! I have to work hard and make a great output though.
So far, I have talked about conferences. I will try to turn conference presentations and papers written for courses into journal articles in order to get one step closer to my goal. Obviously, publishing many papers in first-tier venues is a crucial condition to obtain a faculty position.
Leave a comment