2022 Symposium

While the humanities are not generally thought of as computational fields, they have an increasing role in advancing technologies in our everyday world. Human analysis of language, for example, can elevate existing technologies for enhanced societal impact and inform the development of new technological affordances for changing the landscape of interdisciplinary research. In the OSU English department, researchers are taking both central and collaborative roles in design, development, and evaluation of computational work by applying linguistic insights to increase the accuracy of artificial intelligence and to leverage big data in rapidly tracking language use. 

 

This panel discussion will introduce three such projects at OSU. The first is an NSF-funded intelligent tutoring system for scientific writing. The second was funded by Oklahoma Humanities to identify characteristics of quality paraphrases and contribute to the automatic processing and creation of paraphrased text. The final project is a suite of tools for analyzing language use on social media, developed as a component of a dissertation. The discussion will highlight how applied linguists are expanding the diverse opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaboration and inserting the HUMANities into computation.

Moderator: Hannah Bingham Brunner | English

 

Panelist include: 

Steph Link, PhD | English

Nathan Horton, PhD | English

Robert Redmon | English

 

Los Alamos has had a long history in HPC from the 1940’s to present. The 1992 nuclear test ban led to the need to do full scale nuclear weapons testing using digital simulation.  These virtual tests involve extreme scale, multi-resolution, multi-physics, and multi-link scale simulations that  run on a million cores with a petabyte of in memory working data.  These simulations routinely run for as much as a year to produce a useful test result. This type of computing can generate hundreds of petabytes of data to be managed in weeks  to months. Managing the data from irreproducible nuclear tests, sub critical materials tests, and simulations consisting of a billion files and exabytes of data for 70 years has led Los Alamos to be near the cutting edge of at scale data management methods. This presentation will cover the background of why and how we simulate and concentrate on the needed data management tools that have been developed or are in development to enable scientists to gain scientific insight to use in decision support for US nuclear stockpile stewardship.

Keeping the World Safe Though Extreme Scale Data Management

TBA

Gary Grider

 

Questions and Answers

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Panelists include:

 

Researchers are being encouraged to make their data open and their research processes transparent. Funding agencies expect PI’s to make data available in public repositories where possible in order to advance scientific processes more quickly and ensure that funded research is well used.  There is evidence that advances in knowledge about COVID-19 treatment were accelerated by open sharing of data and fast access to preprints. But adoption of open science/research practices is not universally applauded.  What concerns and issues stand in the way of rapid progress towards truly open science? This symposium will discuss advantages of open science and hold a panel discussion about the ways that open science creates both benefits and challenges for researchers. 

Introduction of Speakers and Topics

3:30pm

Kay Bjornen

 

Research Sharing Drivers and Inhibitors

3:40pm

Clarke Iakovakis

 

Making Open Science Work with FAIR Data

3:55pm

Kay Bjornen

 

Open Science from a Researchers Perspective

4:10pm

Kara Moore

 

Data Security and Open Science

4:25pm

Daisha Pennie | Aaron Smith

 

Questions and Answers

4:40pm

Panelists include:

Kara Moore, PhD | Assistant Professor, Psychology

Daisha Pennie | Manager, IT Risk Management

Clarke Iakovakis | Scholarly Services Librarian

Aaron Smith | Interim Director, IT Security

Kay Bjornen, PhD | Research Data Initiatives Librarian

Spears School of Business recognizes that business schools are change makers for students, businesses and society. Data and statistics are important when it comes to establishing successful businesses. Researchers within Spears Business are using big data and data analytics to not only address business challenges, but to put that research to use for the greater good. During this symposium, Spears Business faculty will present on how they are using digital research to create impact on business and society.  Using social media sites and online web advertising, researchers are gathering data that can shape everything from foodservice operations and perceived legitimacy of new business ventures to human trafficking patterns. The new Spears Center for Social and Business Impact is intentionally focusing on how more of this research can be done to have a positive impact on Oklahoma and the surrounding region.

New Venture Social Media Legitimacy

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Matthew Rutherford, PhD | Professor

Duygu Phillips, PhD | Postdoctoral Researcher

 

Questions and Answers

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Panelists include:

Miriam McGaugh, PhD | School of Marketing & International Business – Understanding Patterns of Human Trafficking

Willie Tao, PhD | School of Hospitality & Tourism – Using Big Data in the Foodservice Context

Rebecca Eastham, PhD | Director, Spears Center for Social and Business Impact

Matthew Rutherford, PhD | Professor

Duygu Phillips, PhD | Postdoctoral Researcher