Press
2016
KONSTAN: Recommendation equation wins U team global honor. Minnesota Daily 13 Apr 2016.
EMOJI (MILLER, THEBAULT-SPIEKER, CHANG, JOHNSON, TERVEEN & HECHT): Lost in emoji translation. Slack Variety Pack. 31 May 2016.
EMOJI (MILLER, THEBAULT-SPIEKER, CHANG, JOHNSON, TERVEEN & HECHT): Study: Emoji not as simple as they seem. Minnesota Daily. 28 April 2016.
EMOJI (MILLER, THEBAULT-SPIEKER, CHANG, JOHNSON, TERVEEN & HECHT): Marketplace Tech with Ben Johnson for Monday, April 18, 2016 @4:33. Marketplace. 18 April 2016.
EMOJI (MILLER, THEBAULT-SPIEKER, CHANG, JOHNSON, TERVEEN & HECHT): U study comes face to face with misreading emoji. Star Tribune. 16 April 2016.
EMOJI (MILLER, THEBAULT-SPIEKER, CHANG, JOHNSON, TERVEEN & HECHT): That Emoji You’re Sending Is Open to Interpretation. Science Friday. 15 April 2016.
EMOJI (MILLER, THEBAULT-SPIEKER, CHANG, JOHNSON, TERVEEN & HECHT): ¿Qué quieres decir con 😁? (Translation: What do you mean with 😁?) EL PAÍS. 15 April 2016.
EMOJI (MILLER, THEBAULT-SPIEKER, CHANG, JOHNSON, TERVEEN & HECHT): What Does This Emoji Mean? Jimmy Kimmel Live. 15 April 2016.
EMOJI (MILLER, THEBAULT-SPIEKER, CHANG, JOHNSON, TERVEEN & HECHT): Nobody Knows What Your Emojis Mean. Fortune. 14 April 2016.
EMOJI (MILLER, THEBAULT-SPIEKER, CHANG, JOHNSON, TERVEEN & HECHT): Same face, different meaning: a new study reveals how people interpret emoji. Vox. 13 April 2016.
EMOJI (MILLER, THEBAULT-SPIEKER, CHANG, JOHNSON, TERVEEN & HECHT): New Study Finds That People Interpret Emojis Differently. mental_floss. 13 April 2016.
EMOJI (MILLER, THEBAULT-SPIEKER, CHANG, JOHNSON, TERVEEN & HECHT): Beware the Pitfalls of Emoji Use Across Platforms. ABC News. 12 April 2016.
EMOJI (MILLER, THEBAULT-SPIEKER, CHANG, JOHNSON, TERVEEN & HECHT): Lost In Translation: Study Finds Interpretation Of Emojis Can Vary Widely. NPR. 12 April 2016.
EMOJI (MILLER, THEBAULT-SPIEKER, CHANG, JOHNSON, TERVEEN & HECHT): Why that emoji grin you sent might show up as a grimace. The Washington Post. 12 April 2016.
EMOJI (MILLER, THEBAULT-SPIEKER, CHANG, JOHNSON, TERVEEN & HECHT): Was that a smile? It turns out that Emojis are subject to interpretation. YAHOO! Tech. 12 April 2016.
EMOJI (MILLER, THEBAULT-SPIEKER, CHANG, JOHNSON, TERVEEN & HECHT): This Is What iPhone Emojis Look Like On Android. BuzzFeed. 12 April 2016.
EMOJI (MILLER, THEBAULT-SPIEKER, CHANG, JOHNSON, TERVEEN & HECHT): What Emojis Really Mean, According to Science. Cosmopolitan. 12 April 2016.
EMOJI (MILLER, THEBAULT-SPIEKER, CHANG, JOHNSON, TERVEEN & HECHT): New U of M study says using Emojis is confusing. GoMedia’s BringMeTheNews. 12 April 2016.
EMOJI (MILLER, THEBAULT-SPIEKER, CHANG, JOHNSON, TERVEEN & HECHT): Are YOU using emoji all wrong? The icons that look so different on iPhones and Android handsets that your friends may not know what you are talking about. Daily Mail. 12 April 2016.
EMOJI (MILLER, THEBAULT-SPIEKER, CHANG, JOHNSON, TERVEEN & HECHT): Eure Emojis werden missverstanden? Das Design ist schuld. (Translation: Your Emojis get misunderstood? The Design is to blame) WIRED Germany. 12 April 2016.
EMOJI (MILLER, THEBAULT-SPIEKER, CHANG, JOHNSON, TERVEEN & HECHT): If Emoji Are the Future of Communication Then We’re Screwed. New York Magazine. 11 April 2016.
EMOJI (MILLER, THEBAULT-SPIEKER, CHANG, JOHNSON, TERVEEN & HECHT): People interpret the same emoji in completely different ways. The Verge. 11 April 2016.
EMOJI (MILLER, THEBAULT-SPIEKER, CHANG, JOHNSON, TERVEEN & HECHT): Science reveals the most confusing emoji. Tech Insider. 11 April 2016.
EMOJI (MILLER, THEBAULT-SPIEKER, CHANG, JOHNSON, TERVEEN & HECHT): Emoji can lead to huge misunderstandings, research finds. The Daily Dot. 11 April 2016.
EMOJI (MILLER, THEBAULT-SPIEKER, CHANG, JOHNSON, TERVEEN & HECHT): That Emoji Does Not Mean What You Think It Means. Gizmodo. 11 April 2016.
EMOJI (MILLER, THEBAULT-SPIEKER, CHANG, JOHNSON, TERVEEN & HECHT): If you send a grimace emoji on an iPhone, it’ll look like a smile on an Android. Boing Boing. 11 April 2016.
EMOJI (MILLER, THEBAULT-SPIEKER, CHANG, JOHNSON, TERVEEN & HECHT): Why Your Bestie With an Android Is So Confused by Your iPhone Emojis. Teen Vogue. 11 April 2016.
EMOJI (MILLER, THEBAULT-SPIEKER, CHANG, JOHNSON, TERVEEN & HECHT): Faites très attention aux emojis que vous envoyez et à leur sens. (Translation: Pay close attention to emoji you send and their meaning) Slate France. 11 April 2016.
EMOJI (MILLER, THEBAULT-SPIEKER, CHANG, JOHNSON, TERVEEN & HECHT): What’s that emoji mean? It all depends on the device you’re using. PCWorld. 9 April 2016.
KONSTAN: Union dues raise concern with faculty. Minnesota Daily 09 Mar 2016.
2015
HECHT: U researchers jump on social media and science bandwagon. Minnesota Daily. 18 Feb 2015.
HECHT: Social media fueled research could help protect the environment. Minnesota Daily. 07 Apr 2015.
TERVEEN: U professor’s bike app gets revisions. Minnesota Daily. 08 Jul 2015.
2014
GOPHERANSWERS, UDUWAGE, and KONSTAN: New website created for tackling student questions. Minnesota Daily. 29 Jan 2014.
TERVEEN and CHANG: Study Reveals Surprising Ways In Which Men Use Pinterest. Minnesota Daily. 17 Feb 2014.
TERVEEN: Male Pinterest users are more interested in art than cars, study finds. Phys.Org. 12 Feb 2014.
TERVEEN: Pinterest working to get more men onboard. SFGate. 17 Aug 2014.
HECHT: Navigating User-Generated Resources: A Q&A with Computer Scientist Brent Hecht. Library Journal. 18 Mar 2014.
HECHT: The Race to Locate Twitter Users. Wall Street Journal. 08 April 2014.
HECHT and SUBWAYPS: Nooit meer verdwalen in de metro dankzij Belgische student. DeMorgen. 01 Sept 2014.
HECHT and SUBWAYPS: Un étudiant découvre une technologie pour se localiser dans le métro. rtbf.be. 01 Sept 2014.
HECHT and SUBWAYPS: Un étudiant découvre une manière de se localiser dans le métro. metrotime.be. 01 Sept 2014.
HECHT and SUBWAYPS: Techniek voorkomt verdwalen in metro. De Telegraaf. 01 Sept 2014.
HALFAKER and SNUGGLE: This Machine Kills Trolls. The Verge. 18 Feb 2014.
HALFAKER: Wikipedia Is Edited by Bots. That’s a Good Thing. Newsweek. 25 Feb 2014.
HALFAKER: Encyclopedia Frown. Slate. 11 Dec 2014.
HALFAKER: Who Killed Wikipedia?. Pacific Standard. 17 Nov 2014.
CYCLOPATH: MnDOT expands interactive bike map app. Minneapolis Star Tribune. 26 Jul 2014.
CYCLOPATH: Mobile App Now Includes Rochester Bike Paths. KAALtv.com. 21 Jul 2014.
CYCLOPATH: The Hennepin County 2040 Bike Plan: Cassie’s notes. Twin Cities Daily Planet (blog). 03 Dec 2014.
SUGGESTBOT: 10 Tricks to Make Yourself a Wikipedia Master Gizmodo. 19 Aug 2014.
KONSTAN: Union push met with skepticism. Minnesota Daily. 29 Sept 2014.
KONSTAN: Faculty retirement deals grow. Minnesota Daily. 02 Oct 2014.
2013
HALFAKER and RIEDL: Is Wikipedia on the decline because of an elite bureaucracy? TG Daily. 25 Oct 2013.
TERVEEN and CHANG: Pinterest could be new tool for businesses. Minnesota Daily. 08 May 2013.
TERVEEN and CHANG: The Four Words That Drive Business on Pinterest. Business News Daily. 24 Apr 2013.
TERVEEN: How verbs drive results on today’s popular social networks. Brafton. 03 May 2013.
KONSTAN and RIEDL: Sometimes it’s OK to treat people like numbers. InfoWorld. 17 Oct 2013.
HALFAKER and RIEDL: Wikipedia Could Degenerate If It Can’t Fix One Big Problem. Business Insider. 22 Feb 2013.
HALFAKER: Wikipedia Reaches 3 Billion Monthly Mobile Views Amid Concerns About Contributor Content. International Business Times. 02 Feb 2013.
HALFAKER: Wikipedia’s Wobbling (Citation Needed). Newsweek. 31 Oct 2013.
HALFAKER: Study: Wikipedia is driving away newcomers. USA Today. 03 Jan 2013.
HALFAKER: The Decline of Wikipedia. MIT Technology Review. 22 Oct 2013.
HALFAKER: Wikipedia is getting Worse as it gets Better. Popular Science. 28 Jan 2013.
HALFAKER and SNUGGLE: La enciclopedia más popular de internet vive su propia crisis. Latercera. 29 Nov 2013.
HALFAKER and SNUGGLE: Wikipedia Wobbles. Newsweek Pakistan. 09 Nov 2013.
CYCLOPATH: His work may lead to cleaner cycling routes. Minneapolis Star Tribune (blog). 25 Jul 2013.
KONSTAN: Back To MOOC – September’s Computer Science Courses. iProgrammer. 02 Sep 2013.
2012
MOVIELENS: The 12 Best Free Entertainment Services and Apps of 2012. PCWorld. 23 Apr 2012.
KONSTAN: CHI 2012 Conference Q&A With Joseph Konstan. New York Times. 04 Jun 2012.
KONSTAN and RIEDL: Deconstructing Recommender Systems. IEEE Spectrum. 24 Sept 2012.
2011
CYCLOPATH, GROUPLENS, TERVEEN, and PRIEDHORSKY: On the move with Cyclopath. UMN News. 23 Aug 2011.
MOVIELENS, RIEDL, SEN, and VIG: Movie website has everything but popcorn. Minneapolis Star Tribune. 02 Mar 2011.
GROUPLENS: 三大推荐算法,帮助网站猜中你的心?. Donews. 10 Jun 2011.
SUGGESTBOT: Ten Impressive, Weird And Amazing Facts About Wikipedia. Wired News (blog). 12 Jan 2011.
LAM, RIEDL, TERVEEN, UDUWAGE, DONG, and SEN: University of Minnesota researchers reveal Wikipedia gender biases. University of Minnesota DISCOVER- Arts + Humanities. 11 Aug 2011.
2010
RIEDL: Survey: Company computer ‘snooping’ on the rise. KARE. 12 Jul 2010.
CYCLOPATH: Google Leads, You Pedal. New York Times. 23 Jan 2010.
CYCLOPATH: Great Green Job Alert! Be a Bike Commuter Guide. Treehugger. 23 Jan 2010.
RIEDL: Search Takes a Social Turn. New York Times. 12 Sept 2010.
MOVIELENS, GROUPLENS: Best Movie Recommendation Services. Lifehacker Australia. 19 Sept 2010.
GROUPLENS: Macalester Professor Awarded $1.2M NSF Grant to Study Tags. Macalester College News. 08 Jul 2010.
2009
MOVIELENS: Top 10 movie recommendation engines CNET News. 19 Mar 2009.
CYCLOPATH: Riding with Cyclopath– The online bicycle route planner. Minneapolis City Pages (blog). 31 Jul 2009.
2008
KONSTAN: Good Question: Why Do Some Text Rather Than Talk? Wcco. 2008.
KONSTAN: The Taste of Others. Film in Focus. 26 Mar 2008.
RIEDL: Social networks see Web traffic declines. MN Daily. 08 Feb 2008.
TERVEEN: U.S. Bank launches pay-by-phone program. MN Daily. 05 Feb 2008.
KONSTAN and HARPER: You Get What You Pay For With Online Q & A Sites, Study Shows. Science Daily. 11 Apr 2008.
GROUPLENS: Web mining alebo objavovanie poznatkov na webe Inet.sk. 18 Jun 2008.
2007
RIEDL: New Web Sites Have Arresting Premise: You Get to be the Fashion Police.
PRIEDHORSKY: The few, the proud: the Wikipedia authors. MN Daily. 13 Nov 2007.
RIEDL: Chipmark class is a real-world setting. MN Daily. 27 Sept 2007.
TERVEEN: Text messaging goes beyond emergencies. MN Daily. 21 Nov 2007.
TERVEEN: Apple and Microsoft: The platform war. MN Daily. 29 Oct 2007.
TERVEEN: U of M Researchers Reveal New Findings About Wikipedia Authorship and Vandalism. ACM Tech News. 7 Nov 2007.
PRIEDHORSKY, PANCIERA, and TERVEEN: Radio interview on Newsday. Radio K. Recorded 16 Nov 2007.
PRIEDHORSKY and PANCIERA: Radio interview on Access Minnesota. Recorded 15 Nov 2007.
PRIEDHORSKY, TERVEEN, and RIEDL: Featured in Minnesota Daily. 13 Nov 2007.
TERVEEN: Radio interview on Future Tense. 7 Nov 2007.
2006
RIEDL: Gamers play to slay, and to win friends ; Millions are being sucked into action of hottest role-playing video game, “World of Warcraft.“. Star Tribune. 25 Feb 2007.
RIEDL: The Race to Create a “Smart” Google. Fortune Magazine. 20 Nov 2006.
KONSTAN: Scammers and Spammers Bombarding Email Inboxes. Mn Daily. 05 Dec 2006.
RIEDL: Web Identity Unsafe. MN Daily. 12 Dec 2006.
RIEDL: A New Domain to Rule – It’s Getting So Tough to Create Decent “.com” Internet Names That Gofast.net’s Founder Thinks The Time Is Right to Unleash “.corp.com” For Businesses That Missed Out On the First Round of the Online Boom. Pioneer Press. 28 Mar 2006.
RIEDL: And if You Liked the Movie, a Netflix Contest May Reward You Handsomely. New York Times. 20 Oct 2006.
KONSTAN: ‘U’ promotes user-friendly technology. MN Daily. 14 Nov 2006.
RIEDL: Web identity unsafe. MN Daily. 12 Dec 2006.
RIEDL: Wiki and the U student. MN Daily. 17 Oct 2006.
2005
KONSTAN: An Interview with the University of Minnesota’s Joseph Konstan about GroupLens. Coalition for Networked Information Fall 2005 Task Force Meeting. 9 Dec 2005.
2004
KONSTAN: U study aims to recommend books. MN Daily. 24 Sept 2004.
2003
KONSTAN and RIEDL: False Web Ratings Swing Opinion, Study Says. New York Times. 22 May 2003.
KONSTAN and RIEDL: Good ratings gone bad – Study shows recommender systems can manipulate users’ opinions; Study also reports users lose trust in systems that give phony ratings. National Science Foundation. 4 Apr 2003.
KONSTAN and RIEDL: What Customers Want. The Hindi Business Wire. 6 Feb 2003.
RIEDL: Movie enthusiasts aided by U service to help film selection. MN Daily. 5 Feb 2003.
2002
KONSTAN: U declares war on spam e-mail: filters to debut. MN Daily. 26 Sept 2002.
1998
GROUPLENS: GroupLens Recommendation Engine to Standardize Internet Personalization for Singapore’s Online Technologies Consortium. Singapore Business Wire. 17 Jun 1998.