30 years ago today, June 6, 1994, I announced the NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) to the Usenet newsgroup sci.aeronautics. I'm especially proud that NTRS continues to serve NASA reports today. History: ws-dl.blogspot.com/2024/06/2024-0… Today: ntrs.nasa.gov

The 2024 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '24) will be held in Hong Kong, China between 12/16/2024 and 12/20/2024. The CFPs for research papers and other submission types are up. For details, refer to the website at 2024.jcdl.org. JCDL Conference WS-DL Group, ODU CS

A must-read in the #scienceofscience literature!

Excited to announce that I will be serving as Associate Chair for the Research and Poster tracks at the upcoming ACM CSCW 2025, July cycle! Consider submitting your work to one of the premier HCI venues. cscw.acm.org/2025/index.php… cc:/ WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU College of Sciences ODU Computer Science Accessible Computing Lab

Hidden Citation: When we build on your work, without citing it. It happens more often than you think. We analyzed its implication in a recent PNAS : “Hidden Citations Obscure True Impact in Science” With Xiangyi Meng and Onur Varol PDF: barabasilab.com/science/public…

Look forward to seeing everyone next week!!!

Today in nature, I laid out our vision of using AI to help universities maximize their research impacts. Key Q: Can we use data and AI tools to help a university locate key ideas and personnel to maximize its impact and accelerate progress? nature.com/articles/d4158… 🧵 1/

Don't forget to follow our REU students, Kevin Kevin Cauchi, Caoilainn Caoilainn Christensen, Stefania Stefania Dzhaman, Emily Emily Ebalo, Ashlyn Ashlyn Farris, Jessica @jessicasmelton, Leah Leah Prince, Brionna Brionna, and Kavari Kavari Leonard, ODU CS REU WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU Computer Science Old Dominion University

Congratulations to Dr. Bathsheba Farrrow Bathsheba for successfully defending her dissertation "A Microservices Approach to EEG Research in the Public Cloud" She is the very first student from the nirds-lab research group WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU Computer Science to defend the Ph.D.

JCDL 2024 is soliciting submissions, including full and short papers, late-breaking results, datasets papers, workshop and tutorial proposals, posters and demos, panels, and doctoral consortiums. CFP: easychair.org/cfp/JCDL2024. The conference website is at 2024.jcdl.org.

It’s that time of the year again! #ICSSI starts tomorrow!!! Action packed three days. The festival for #scienceofscience. Look forward to seeing everyone at the National Academies tomorrow!! ICSSI Check out the program: icssi.org

Dr. James Evans makes the opening remark for the 2024 International Conference on Science of Science and Innovation. I am honored to give an contributed talk on Tuesday and coauthor another talk with Sarah Rajtmajer and her student. ICSSI WS-DL Group, ODU CS AI4SciSci

Congratulations to Dr. Gavindya Jayawardena Gavindya for successfully defending her dissertation “RAEMAP: Real-time Advanced Eye Movement Analysis Pipeline”. 🥳 nirds-lab WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU Computer Science ODU College of Sciences Sampath Jayarathna

Yasasi Gavindya nirds-lab WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU Computer Science ODU College of Sciences Gavindya Gavindya will be joining Prof. Jacek Gwizdka's Jacek Gwizdka ixlab_ut lab as a Bullard Research Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, we Texas A&M University aggies call it t.u ). Congratulations Jacek, you got an excellent postdoc!!! WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU Computer Science

Today I’m hosting the WS-DL Group, ODU CS Summer REU cohort for a tour at NASA Langley Research Center. This is the Remote Operations for Autonomous Missions (ROAM) lab.

Very much looking forward to sharing our ongoing work on AI4Science AI for Science! Around for the coming week, let's chat over coffee (just DM me)!

📝Trip Report: ACM Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability 2024. Sharing my experiences and key takeaways from attending ACM REP '24 virtually! Check out the highlights and insights: ws-dl.blogspot.com/2024/07/2024-0… ODU Computer Science WS-DL Group, ODU CS

The Prompt Report: A Systematic Survey of Prompting Techniques arxiv.org/abs/2406.06608 WS-DL Group, ODU CS AI4SciSci

I am excited to announce that the 2nd International Workshop on AI for the Science of Science (AI4SciSci) will be co-located with the 2025 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) online. The workshop website is at ai4scisci.github.io/2025. ICSSI WS-DL Group, ODU CS

We welcome submissions on topics about the science of science, scholarly big data, scientometrics, and scholarly data mining. We welcome extended abstracts, short, and long papers. The submission deadline is currently set to October 24, 2025.