Author: Kalev Leetaru
Wikipedia Study Showcases SGI UV2 Launch
In collaboration with SGI, the new UV2 supercomputer, which scales to 4,000 cores and 64TB in a single system image,…
Columbia University: Hertog Global Strategy Initiative Digital Scholarship Workshop
Kalev presented "The Science of Forecasting Unrest Through Modeling Population-Scale Emotional Responses" at the Hertog Global Strategy Initiative Digital Scholarship Workshop…
IIPC Opening Address Keynote on the Future of Web Archives at the Library of Congress
Kalev gave the keynote address opening the 2012 General Assembly of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) at the Library…
Opening Big Data Week
Kalev presented some of the welcoming remarks introducing Big Data Week and touching on the incredible growth of observational social…
Culturomics 2.0 at TEDxTallinn
Featured in Nature, BBC, Discovery, and the media in over 100 countries, Kalev spoke about his work at TEDxTallinn 2012….
LOC/NEH Chronicling America Bulk Exports Available
While at the Library of Congress presenting the keynote address opening the 2012 IIPC General Assembly, Kalev met with the staff…
Keynote Address at 2012 IIPC General Assembly at the Library of Congress
In April 2012 GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru presented the keynote address opening the 2012 IIPC General Assembly at the Library of…
Culturomics 2.0 at SGI 2012 User Conference
Featured in Nature, BBC, Discovery, and the media in over 100 countries, Kalev presented his Culturomics 2.0 work as the…
Keynote Speaker at SGIUG 2012
Kalev was the keynote speaker at the SGI User Group Conference. Learn More.
CU Software Users Group: Data Mining
Kalev speaks to the CU Software Users Group on the state of HPC data mining. Watch The Video.
Culturomics 2.0 Covered in The Economist's World in 2012 Special Issue
Kalev Leetaru's Culturomics 2.0 study is one of just five science stories to be covered in The Economist's The World…
Culturomics 2.0 on Polish Mediafun
Featured in Nature, BBC, Discovery, and the media in over 100 countries, Kalev presented his Culturomics 2.0 work at IAB…
Culturomics 2.0 on Russia Today
Featured in Nature, BBC, Discovery, and the media in over 100 countries, Kalev was interviewed by Russian television station Russia…
Culturomics 2.0 at IAB Poland 2011
Featured in Nature, BBC, Discovery, and the media in over 100 countries, Kalev presented his Culturomics 2.0 work at IAB…
How to Predict the Future
Kalev was interviewed as part of a BBC special feature on "How to Predict the Future." Read the Full Article.
Petascale Humanities Presentation at the National Endowment for the Humanities
Kalev presented today to the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in Washington, DC on his work on forging the petascale…
Nature Covers Culturomics 2.0
Nature's Philip Ball writes about Culturomics 2.0. Read the Full Article.
Culturomics 2.0: Forecasting Large-Scale Human Behavior Using Global News Media Tone in Time and Space
Using an archive of 100 million global news articles spanning a quarter-century, a 2.4 petabyte network of 10 billion people,…
San Diego Supercomputing Center: Gordon Inaugural Workshop
Kalev spoke at the inaugural workshop debuting NSF's first foray into large flash-memory supercomputing architectures. His presentation "Modeling Global Societal…
News Preservation and Access CRL Event
This online event, hosted by James Simon, Director of the CRL Global Resources Network, on July 13, 2011, surveyed CRL…
Mapping the Newspaper Industry in Transition
This report provides a vivid glimpse inside the workplaces that produce what – not long ago – we would have called…
Social Media Workshop
This one-hour, two-hour, or half-day shortcourse covers a wide-ranging overview of how the modern organization can make the most from…
Worldwide Test of Group Discourse in Conflict
International relations scholars have long suspected that popular support for war is structured in part by in-group reactions to out-group…
Library of Congress: Citizen Journalists and Community News: Archiving for Today and Tomorrow
Kalev presented at the Library of Congress' Citizen Journalists and Community News: Archiving for Today and Tomorrow summit on "Global News…