Aaron Halfaker

I'm a principal applied scientist at Microsoft, a senior scientist at UMN and a Wikipedia volunteer. I study socio-technical dynamics to build better tech.

[Tzu-Sheng Kuo 郭子生 @tzushengkuo]

❤️This is a collaborative work with a wonderful team of co-authors @halfak, @Zirui_Cheng_, @jordynjkim, Meng-Hsin, @tongshuangwu, and my advisors @d19fe8 and @Haiyi_Zhu.

Please check our paper for more details: https://t.co/8e4xYoVP1Z

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[Dr. Jojo Karlin @jojokarlin]

Observations and speculations @WikiEducation speaker series “Wikipedia in a generative ai world” today @ragesoss @halfak @tnbob @harrisonstephen #jojodoodles

[Aaron Halfaker @halfak]

Some more discussion about what I mean by "Soon enough, every meeting is going to be an email." https://t.co/ZmA4bjXLgU

[Aaron Halfaker @halfak]

"This meeting could have been an email." Soon enough, every meeting is going to be an email.

[Jaime Teevan @jteevan]

#Slide52: Too many meetings this week? Large language models can transform some of your synchronous meetings into async interactions. Listen to @halfak bring today's and yesterday's slides to life in <90 seconds: https://t.co/zXtzAOrrUC https://t.co/GqzQHIuK67

[Aaron Halfaker @halfak]

It's currently pi-o-clock on May the 4th. :)

[Aaron Halfaker @halfak]

@ylongqi Hey folks! Come work with me and my team.

[Aaron Halfaker @halfak]

@yuvipanda @staeiou The wiki way (as it tends to be) is more efficient. If you don't work in secret, you can't get scooped! *Gasp! But what if they publish before you?* Anyone who claims originality because they were merely first to get something through peer review is a liar. Cite all sources!

[Aaron Halfaker @halfak]

@egonwillighagen @sumit_ast @nikola_banovic The hardest problem is gathering the data. We learn from how Wikipedian's flag issues with content while correcting it. In theory, we could train a model using student report correction data. Need old and new sentences with a note about what issue was corrected.

[Computational HCI Lab @CompHCILab]

"Automatically Labeling Low Quality Content on Wikipedia by Leveraging Patterns in Editing Behavior" improves detection of sentences that need citations, NPOV, and clarifications. Work by @sumit_ast, Sabrina Tobar Thommel, @halfak, and @nikola_banovic was accepted to #CSCW2021.

[Aaron Halfaker @halfak]

One of my colleagues (@julia_kiseleva) is an organizer of the #igluContest, an open ML dataset competition for building agents that learn from natural language instruction. Check it out! https://t.co/dF2gSeL2gG

[iglu-contest @ NeurIPS @IgluContest]

We are happy to announce that the submission system is up and running! So #igluContest has officially started:
Architect Task:
https://t.co/NNGEGYxTaU
Builder Task: https://t.co/nF5K3oxTRA
Please register and try it out!
#NeurIPS2021

[Aaron Halfaker @halfak]

@DrYanWong Woah! Missed this. Thanks for pointing it out! I'm going to need to get that all back online.

[Brent Hecht @bhecht]

Looking for a job that combines the benefits of industry and academic positions? Have we got an opening for you! The Microsoft Office of Applied Research is seeking researchers who will lead projects that advance the state-of-the-art and Microsoft’s products at the same time.

[Aaron Halfaker @halfak]

I rode my bike a little bit this year. COVID be damned.

[Aaron Halfaker @halfak]

@memyselfandHCI @lorenterveen @jkonstan @DanKeefeMN Congrats Dr Smith! Amazing work!

[Aaron Halfaker @halfak]

This fantastic graphic summarizes a ton of useful information for cyclists.

[Aaron Halfaker @halfak]

"How do we align our AI systems to the kind of world we would want to live in?" I enjoyed read this nice view of Human-in-the-loop AI by @gewang https://t.co/ECMw9yPCTE I'm looking for thoughts on design of AI-powered UX. Any other suggestions?

[Aaron Halfaker @halfak]

Getting up at 5AM was worth it to see some of my work with
@staeiou show up in the @CSCW2020 celebration of systems research panel -- our work measuring labor hours in Wikipedia. https://t.co/LgCtxO3UAV

[Dr. Casey Fiesler is no longer on here @cfiesler]

#CSCW2022 will be in Taiwan!
#CSCW2023 will be "back" in Minneapolis! (This is the one where I am general co-chair!)

And... 🥁🥁🥁

#CSCW2021 will be virtual again, with the hopes this will result in a strong, accessible conference. Likely 10/23-10/27.

[Aaron Halfaker @halfak]

I'm setting up a Minneapolis bike tour live stream for #CSCW2020. A couple reflections: (1) Minneapolis is beautiful this time of the year and (2) GoPro's facilities for live streaming through a phone's hotspot is abysmal UX. Oof.

[Aaron Halfaker @halfak]

I just put together a 5 minute video about the participatory machine learning work I did with #ORES in @Wikipedia https://t.co/WxB31Z9Ozk