In just a few words, we compute natural language patterns to identify varieties of fakes in online news. Is 3 minutes enough time to talkView More
Category: Community Outreach
Thank You to Those Who Came for a Visit at FIMS, Western
On Saturday, September 14, 2019 FIMS at Western participated first time in the “Doors Open London” event. Many thanks to the community members who cameView More
Call for Study Participants: News Verification Browser Usability
Some light digital work is awaiting you… We are still looking for a few more participants to try out our newly developed AI tool, theView More
Misinformation & Disinformation Book Project Underway
As the academic term is coming to its end, I am formally starting the process of assembling materials for an 8-10 chapter book, tentatively calledView More
End-of-Class Poster Session: Case Studies of Misinforming & Disinforming
When? Wed, April 10th 10:30 am – 1:00 p.m. Where? FIMS & Nursing Building (FNB) Atrium (1st floor lobby). Who? Graduate FIMS Students (See ListView More
Lazar to Present on Detecting Lies in Criminal Cases
On April 5, 2019, Zaia Lazar, an expert on investigative interviewing techniques and instructor of front line supervisor course at the Ontario Police College presentsView More
Interview on SparkDialog Podcast
Our team was interviewed by Elizabeth Fernandez, the host of SparkDialog, a podcast about science and society. You can listen to the full recording orView More
IEEE Women in Engineering Talk Well Received
On 23 January 2018 Victoria Rubin was invited to speak to a group of engineering students and researchers. The talk was about creating more morally-savvyView More
London Public Library Specialists’ Guest Talk at Western
Last week we were fortunate to hear from professionals in the field of Library and Information Science about their programming, reference services and collections forView More
Crossing Language Barriers Poster Session at FIMS, Western
Quiz: What languages are the signs in? What do you think they say? Do they have anything in common? “Crossing Language Barriers for Information ProvisionView More