Event
Advanced Networks Colloquium: Abdur Chowdhury, "Challenges in Building Human Networks"
Friday, September 20, 2013
11:00 a.m.
1146 A.V. Williams Building
Kimberly Edwards
kedwards@umd.edu
The Advanced Networks Colloquium
Challenges in building human networks
Abdur Chowdhury
Co-founder, Alta Vista School
Former Chief Scientist, Twitter
Host
John Baras
Abstract
Networking technology continues to provide better ways for humans to communicate. In this talk we look at how this landscape is changing and look at how social engineering techniques must be taken into account for these new systems to work.
Biography
Abdur is the co-founder of the Alta Vista School focused on STEM education for k-8 and co-founder/CEO for his new company pushed working on contextual mobile applications. Previously, Dr. Chowdhury was Twitter's Chief Scientist, co-founder of Summize.com and AOL's Chief Architect for Search.
