Aaron helped forge the open web—RSS, Creative Commons infrastructure, Reddit, tools for liberating public knowledge, and more. The state made an example of one of the world's brightest architects, and the result was an indictment of how power punishes those who try to make knowledge free.
Please consider submitting papers which you have which might be relevant, or encourage others in your network to do so. We are particularly interested in papers on Open Science, Knowledge Commons, Civic Technology, Information Equity, but are not in any way limited to this.
CW: suicide.
Honoured to be Guest Editing—with @saurabhkhanna.bsky.social—a Special Issue at ACM-TSC in tribute of my intellectual hero, Aaron Swartz, who died by suicide in 2013 at 26 after extreme prosecutorial overreach. While attempting to expand access to knowledge. CfP: tinyurl.com/4znbk4y2.
Today's pushes bring in some speed efficiencies to our new model uncertainty library which make it approximately **14** times faster!
Check it out now at robustipy.github.io; accompanying paper getting published very soon, super jazzed 🎷
Two weeks left until our Call for Papers closes for the 7th International Conference on Social Computing (ICSC'26).
Please do submit your papers! Optional conference proceedings, great keynote speakers, nice conference dinner @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social, and more.
Details: icsc-conf.github.io!
