Still Life
University Park Airport Emergency Response Exercise
Commencement across Penn State: Spring 2012
Spring commencement 2012 under way
Penn State, Moroccan students problem-solve together
Finals Week Spring Semester 2012
Painting the Lines at Beaver Stadium
Did They Get It Right? - RedTails
Iconic Penn State elm taken down over spring break 2012
We ... are Penn State (December 19, 2011)
Disease stricken matching elm tree slated for removal
Penn State's creamery, from the cow to the cone
Flexible and printed electronics, and chemical linguistic analysis, are targeted to receive $1.25 million in research grants from the Dow Chemical Co. (more)
Since 2001, the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries has served as the major international forum focused on digital libraries and associated technical, practical and social issues. At this year's conference, which was held June 13-17 in Ottawa, Canada, Penn State researchers made a strong showing. The theme for JCDL 2011 was "Digital Libraries: Bringing Together Scholars, Scholarship and Research Data," in recognition of the changes the digital age is now bringing to scholarship.
Two professors in Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology, Dr. C. Lee Giles and Dr. Prasenjit Mitra, presented papers at the conference. In keeping with the theme of the conference, Giles, along with his collaborators, introduced a public website that is designed to connect researchers who share similar interests. (more)
By integrating social media, Penn State researchers have found a way to better satisfy individual users' multimedia searches on the Web. Penn State Information Sciences and Technology faculty members Lee Giles and Luke Zhang and their students recently introduced SNDocRank, a framework to incorporate social networks into multimedia search rankings. "With the assumption that 'birds of a feather flock together,' the SNDocRank framework ranks the videos based on the similarity of the owners of videos in social networks," Giles said. "Users tend to be friends if they have common interests, and they are more interested in their friends' information than that of others they don't know." (more)
A new digital library and search engine created by Penn State researchers now holds more than 1 million journal articles and other scholarly works that can be easily accessed by anyone. (more)
Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) and Alcatel-Lucent have announced an agreement to jointly develop an innovative mobile video social networking application. As part of the collaborative research project, Alcatel-Lucent and Penn State will form a team funded by Alcatel-Lucent. (more)
