News Archive

January 2007

Physics World's article "Talking Physics in the Social Web" features a section describing our work on using social networks for scientific collaboration.

July 10, 2006

Jen Golbeck was a guest on the Diane Rehm Show discussing social networks.

April, 2006

Jen Golbeck was named one of IEEE Intelligent System's Top 10 to Watch, a list of top young AI researchers.

April 1, 2005

Jen Golbeck successfully defends her dissertation based on this project. S$ for the dissertation and slides from her defense.

January 10, 2005

FilmTrust is now live. This website merges social networks with movie recommendations and reviews. Please join the network and help further our research.

October 11, 2004

Jennifer Golbeck's article on filtering email with trust networks appears in October's issue of Virus Bulletin as feature article in the spam supplement.

September 1, 2004

FOAF Workshop at Galway is underway. A nice talk by Tom Croucher mentions trust in its role in e-learning systems.

August 2, 2004

IRC Hacks, by Paul Mutton is released. This book contains 100 IRC hacks including 7 written by Jennifer Golbeck. A trust bot that accesses this trust network, as well as a foaf bot and some web service bots are among the chapters.

June 16, 2004

TrustMail overview posted and alpha version released!

June 15, 2004

TrustMail and The Trust Project appear at Salon.com in part 2 of "You are who you know" by Andrew Leonard.

May 22, 2004

The Trust on the We$ Day at the WWW Conference was a great success. Presentations and links are $ website.

March 3, 2004

The trust network gains its 1,000th member! More det$ Project section.

FilmTrust

• FilmTrust Home
• About

Social Network Survey

• Intro and Background
• Criteria
• Site List
• Search the Database

Trust on the Semantic Web

• About the project
• Join the Trust Network

Trust-O-Matic

Convert your Address Book

Add your existing file

The trust ontology

• Query the trust network

• Calculate Trust!
• Personal Statistics
• Network Statistics
• The Top Ten
• Visualize the Graph
• Self Visualization

Outside Links

• MINDSWAP

• University of Maryland, College Park Computer Science Department

• Workshop on Trust and Reputation on the Semantic Web

Email comments or questions to golbeck@cs.umd.edu

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