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Mike Frank discusses how language is a tool for counting and cognition in general. He also talks about research he has performed with other languages that do not have a solid counting system. (February 18, 2011)

Ed Chi talks about the social research he did that illuminated how a person's interests might relate to those of his or her online friends. (February 11, 2011)

Niki Kittur examines how social collaboration is allowing for unparalleled informative power in the realm of complex and creative information. He discusses how the power behind social collaboration will lead to discoveries in the future.(February 4, 2011)

Dan Jurafsky discusses a system he and his colleagues created that can detect social intentions with above 70% accuracy. He says that this system greatly outperforms human beings. (January 28, 2011)

David Shamma discusses tracking online social behavior and how this research has led to explore the options available in automatically classifying media. (January 21, 2011)

Fred Turner discusses his opinions on the social phenomenon of Burning Man and how he thinks the ideals of the festival apply to the marketplace that is evolving in our society, specifically in the Silicon Valley. (January 14, 2011)

Shumin Zhai gives a presentation on the progression of user interfaces throughout the past. He focuses on how we are moving into an age of touch screens and touch gesture keyboards. He explains the implications of this shift. (January 7, 2011)