Algorithms of Trust // NYC Salon [94]
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From Airbnb to Facebook, algorithms increasingly mediate our social interactions. In this talk, Xiao Ma will show how we can build algorithms to predict trust from language on Airbnb, images on eBay, and social networks on Facebook groups. Finally, Xiao will briefly discuss how traditional types of trust (i.e., trust in institutions) is on the decline, while "networked trust" emerges.
// About the Speaker //
Xiao Ma is a fifth-year PhD candidate in Information Science at Cornell Tech, the campus of Cornell University on Roosevelt Island. Xiao's research is mainly in the area of Computational Social Science, and in particular, she focuses on the computational understanding of interpersonal trust. Previously, Xiao has been an intern at Airbnb and Facebook Core Data Science. For more information, see maxiao.info or follow @infoxiao on Twitter.
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