Publications & Presentations

This page lists a selection of my major publications and presentations. For a more complete list, please see my cirriculum vita.

2012

• Interview with Wired Magazine: Big Data and the Death of the Theorist. Wired Magazine. London, England, January 25, 2013.(Invited).
• Ask the Experts: Social Media and Conflict Prevention (Panelist Response). Council on Foreign Relations Center for Preventive Action. Washington, DC, December 12, 2012.(Invited).
• Using "Big Data" To Understand the World Around Us: Towards Realtime Modeling, Monitoring, and Forecasting Global Society. Council on Foreign Relations Center for Preventive Action Workshop on Social Media and Conflict Prevention. Washington, DC, December 12, 2012. Other speakers included Assistant Secretary of State for Conflict and Stabilization Operations Frederick Barton. (Invited).
• Using "Big Data" To Understand the World Around Us: Towards Realtime Modeling, Monitoring, and Forecasting Global Society. Leetaru, Kalev. (2012). Big Data Analytics 2012: London, United Kingdom, December 6, 2012. (Invited).
• Using "Big Data" To Understand the World Around Us: Towards Realtime Modeling, Monitoring, and Forecasting Global Society. Leetaru, Kalev. (2012). United Kingdom Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Unleash the Power of Big Data Conference: Daresbury, United Kingdom, December 4, 2012. (Invited).
• Using "Big Data" to Understand the World Around Us: Towards Realtime Modeling, Monitoring, and Forecasting Global Society. Leetaru, Kalev. (2012). UCI Evoke Laboratory, Intel Science and Technology Center for Social Computing, and the Center for Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems Speaker Series. University of California at Irvine. November 30, 2012. (Invited).
• Participant: National Academies Keck Futures Initiative. Leetaru, Kalev. (2012). National Academies Keck Futures Initiative - The Informed Brain in a Digital World. National Academies Keck Futures Initiative 2012. Beckman Institute: Irvine, CA, November 14-17, 2012. (Invited).
• The Big Data Future. Leetaru, Kalev. (2012). SGI Innovators Breakfast: November 14, 2012, Salt Lake City, UT. (Invited).
• The Global Twitter Heartbeat. Leetaru, Kalev. (2012). SGI Theater at Supercomputing 2012: November 12-14, 2012, Salt Lake City, UT. (Invited).
• Realtime Automated Monitoring of Global Information Streams for Crisis Situational Awareness, Early Warning, and Forecasting. Leetaru, Kalev. (2012). International Crisis Mapping Conference (ICCM2012). World Bank: Washington, DC, October 11-14, 2012. (Invited).
• Realtime Automated Global Crisis Mapping and Subnational Global Risk Forecasting. Leetaru, Kalev. (2012). International Crisis Mapping Conference (ICCM2012). World Bank: Washington, DC, October 11-14, 2012. (Invited).
• Mapping For Realtime Automated Global Crisis Mapping and Subnational Global Risk Forecasting. Leetaru, Kalev. (2012). International Crisis Mapping Conference (ICCM2012). World Bank: Washington, DC, October 11-14, 2012. (Invited).
• Towards HPC for the Digital Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences: Needs and Challenges of Adapting Academic HPC for Big data. Leetaru, Kalev. (2012). IEEE 8th International Conference on eScience. Chicago, Illinois: October 8-12, 2012. (Invited).
• Happy or Not: Generating Topic-Based Emotional Heatmaps for Culturomics Using CyberGIS. Shook, Eric; Leetaru, Kalev; Cao, Guofeng; Padmanabhan, Anand; Wang, Shaowen. (2012). IEEE 8th International Conference on eScience. Chicago, Illinois: October 8-12, 2012. (Invited).
• Fulltext Geocoding Versus Spatial Metadata for Large Text Archives: Towards a Geographically Enriched Wikipedia. Leetaru, Kalev. (September 2012). D-Lib. Vol. 18. No. 9/10.
• A Big Data Approach to the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences: Wikipedia's View of the World Through Supercomputing. Elsiever Research Trends. (September 2012). Issue 30. (Invited).
• A CyberGIS Approach to Digital Humanities and Social Sciences: The World of Textual Geography and a Case Study of Wikipedia's History of the World. The First International Conference On Space, Time, and CyberGIS. Urbana, Illinois: August 6-9, 2012. With Eric Shook and Shaowen Wang. (Showcase Presentation). (Presentation Slides.)
• Remotely Assessing Local Populations Through Spatial Media Analysis. The First International Conference On Space, Time, and CyberGIS. Urbana, Illinois: August 6-9, 2012. With Charles Ehlschlaeger, Jeffrey Burkhalter and Marina Drigo.
• GISolve Open Service APIs for CyberGIS Software Integration: Wikipedia Case Study. The First International Conference On Space, Time, and CyberGIS. Urbana, Illinois: August 6-9, 2012. With Yan Liu and Eric Shook.
• Gaps and ways to improve how populations and social groups can be monitored via journalistic and social media to detect fragility. In National Security Challenges: Insights from Social, Neurobiological, and Complexity Sciences: Topical Strategic Multi-Layer Assessment and US Army ERDC Multi-Agency/Multi-Disciplinary White Papers in Support of National Security Challenges. With Anthony Olcott. Washington, DC: July 19, 2012. (Invited).
• Towards a CyberGIS Model for the Digital Humanities and Social Sciences. University of Illinois Best Practices for CyberGIS Series: July 19, 2012. With Shaowen Wang. (Invited).
• Behind the Scenes: The Making of the SGI Wikipedia Project. Webinar Hosted by SGI: July 11, 2012 (Invited).
• SGI UV2: Exploring Big Data at the Speed of Big Data. SGI: July 15, 2012 (Invited).
• The World of Wikipedia on NOAA Science on a Sphere. June 29, 2012.
• SGI Wikipedia Project. In collaboration with SGI, the new UV2 supercomputer, which scales to 4,000 cores and 64TB in a single system image, was used to interactively explore Wikipedia's view of world history 1800-2012 and the underlying spatial-temporal knowledge network of Wikipedia's 4M pages, including 120 million locations and dates. This study marked the first time a digital humanities project has ever showcased the launch of a new supercomputer and captures the importance of big data in modern supercomputing. Covered widely from the New York Times to the Atlantic Wire's Chart of the Day. June 14, 2012. (Invited).
• The Science of Forecasting Unrest Through Modeling Population-Scale Emotional Responses. Hertog Global Strategy Initiative Digital Scholarship Workshop. Columbia University, New York, New York: June 1-2, 2012. (Invited).
• TEDx: Culturomics 2.0: Forecasting The Future Through Global Media. TEDxTallinn 2012. Tallinn, Estonia: May 4, 2012. (Invited / TEDx).
• Keynote Address: A Decade and a Half of Archiving the Web for Data Mining: Lessons Learned and How Users Use Web Archives. International Internet Preservation Consortium 2012 General Assembly. Library of Congress, Washington, DC: April 30 - May 4, 2012. (Invited / Keynote). (A longer version of this talk was syndicated on the Library of Congress blog (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) and as an IIPC Report).
• Panel: Research Users of Web Archives. International Internet Preservation Consortium 2012 General Assembly. Library of Congress, Washington, DC: April 30 - May 4, 2012. (Invited).
• Culturomics 2.0: Forecasting The Future Through Global Media. InTTENSITY Federal Social Media Summit Washington, DC: April 24, 2012. (Invited / Keynote).
• Culturomics 2.0: Forecasting The Future Through Global Media. Big Data Week. April, 2012. (Invited / Introductory Keynote).
• Culturomics 2.0: Petascale Data Computing of Society. 2012 SGI User Group (SGIUG) Annual Conference. Orlando, Florida. April 17-19, 2012. (Invited / Opening Keynote).

2011

• Culturomics 2.0 and the Petascale Humanities. Leetaru, Kalev. (December 3, 2011). Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC) Annual Conference. Ann Arbor, Michigan. December 1-3, 2011.
• Supporting Humanities Research on XSEDE. Cai, Dora; Leetaru, Kalev; Sinkovits, Robert. (December 3, 2011). Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC) Annual Conference. Ann Arbor, Michigan. December 1-3, 2011.
• Culturomics 2.0: Forecasting The Future Through Global Media. (November 9, 2011). IAB Poland (Internet Poland Conference & Expo). Warsaw, Poland. November 8-9, 2011 (Invited / Keynote).
• Culturomics 2.0: Petascale Humanities Computing. (October 25, 2011). National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). (Invited / Keynote).
• Culturomics 2.0: Forecasting Large-Scale Human Behavior Using Global News Media Tone in Time and Space. Leetaru, Kalev. (September 2011). First Monday. (See discussion in Nature and media coverage in over 100 countries.)
• Data Mining Methods for the Content Analyst: An Introduction to the Computational Analysis of Informational Content. Leetaru, Kalev. (December 2011). Routledge.
• Assessment of Public Attitudes Towards the Terminology of CCS. Leetaru, Kalev & Leetaru, Hannes. (September 2011). American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Eastern Section Annual Meeting. Washington, DC. September 25-27, 2011.
• News Preservation & Access. Simon, James; Geiger, Brian; Leetaru, Kalev. (July 13, 2011). Center for Research Libraries Global Resources Network.
• Assessment of Public Attitudes Towards the Terminology of CCS. Leetaru, Kalev & Leetaru, Hannes. (May 2011). Tenth Annual Conference on Carbon Capture & Sequestration.
• Preserving News in the Digital Environment: Mapping the Newspaper Industry in Transition. Alverson, Jessica; Leetaru, Kalev; McCargar Victoria; Ondracek, Kayla; Simon, James; Reilly, Bernard. (April 27, 2011). Center for Research Libraries on behalf of the Library of Congress.
• Assessment of Public Attitudes Towards the Terminology of CCS. Leetaru, Kalev & Leetaru, Hannes. (May 2011). Tenth Annual Conference on Carbon Capture & Sequestration. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. May 2-5, 2011.
• Do "We" Have a Stake in This War? A Worldwide Test of the In-Group Out-Group Hypothesis Using Open-Source Intelligence. Althaus, Scott & Leetaru, Kalev. (March 2011). International Studies Association Annual Convention 2011: Global Governance: Political Authority in Transition. Montreal, Canada. March 16-19, 2011.
• Event Data, Civil Unrest and the Social, Political and Economic Event Database (SPEED) Project: Post World War II Trends in Political Protests and Violence. Nardulli, Peter; Leetaru, Kalev; Hayes, Matthew. (March 2011). International Studies Association Annual Convention 2011: Global Governance: Political Authority in Transition. Montreal, Canada. March 16-19, 2011.
• Climate Change, Societal Stability and the SID Project. Nardulli, Peter & Leetaru, Kalev. (Expected 2011). In Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict - Challenges to Social Stability. Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, Vol. VIII. Editors: Jurgen Scheffran, Michael Brzoska, Hans Gunter Brauch, Peter Michael Link, Janpeter Schilling. Springer.

2010

• Global News Analysis: Understanding our World Through News. Leetaru, Kalev. (November 2010). Library of Congress. Washington, DC. November 3-4, 2010. (Invited).
• Guidelines for Community Engagement in Carbon Dioxide Capture, Transport, and Storage Projects. (Contributor). Editors: Forbes, Sarah; Almendra, Francisco; Ziegler, Micah. (November 2010). World Resources Institute. Washington, DC.
• Social Intelligence: The CIA Approach to Corporate Intelligence. Leetaru, Kalev. (August 2010). Network of Academic Corporate Relations Officers (NACRO) Annual Conference. Urbana, Illinois. August 10-12, 2010.
• The Soundbite University: 60 Years of University News Coverage. Leetaru, Kalev & Magelli, Paul. (2010). The American Council on Education's The Presidency.
• A New Look at the Institutional Impact on Women in Postsecondary Engineering Education 1966-2007. Leetaru, Kalev. (2010). Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering. Vol. 16, Issue 2. pp. 177-192.
• How Your Company Can Benefit From Social Media. Leetaru, Kalev. (July 21, 2010). University of Illinois Research Park.
• Climate Change, Natural Disasters and Civil Unrest: A Quasi-experiment and Beyond. Nardulli, Peter & Leetaru, Kalev. (June 2010). Climate Change and Security: the 250th Anniversary Conference of The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (DKNVS). Trondheim, Norway, June 21-24, 2010. (Invited).
• On the Interpretability of Law: Lessons from the Decoding of National Constitutions. Melton, James; Zachary Elkins; Ginsburg, Tom; Leetaru, Kalev. (March 2010). Measuring the Rule of Law Conference. University of Texas at Austin. March 26-27, 2010.
• The Scope of FBIS and BBC Open Source Media Coverage, 1979-2008. Leetaru, Kalev. (Unclassified). (March 2010). CIA Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 54, No. 1. Pp. 51-71.

2009

• New media vs. old media: A portrait of the Drudge Report 2002-2008. Leetaru, Kalev. (July 6, 2009). First Monday. Vol. 14, Issue 7. (Issue Headlining Article).
• Como Sera el Mundo del Libro en el 2010? Seis expertos predicen el futuro. (What will the world of the library look like in 2020? Six experts predict the future). Interview with Kalev Leetaru by Alvaro Colomer. (2009). Que Leer. pp. 38-45.
• Open Sources and Foreign Media Analysis: Translation at a Global Scale. Leetaru, Kalev. (2009). Center for Translation Studies. December 1, 2009.
• The SPEED Project, Automated Event Mining, and Conflict Early Warning. Leetaru, Kalev. (2009). First International Crisis Mapping Conference (ICCM2009). John Carrol University: Cleaveland, Ohio, October 16-18, 2009. (Invited).
• Manual Crisis Mapping (MCM) & Automated Crisis Mapping (ACM): Hand-Coding, Participatory Mapping and Natural Language Processing. Leetaru, Kalev. (2009). First International Crisis Mapping Conference (ICCM2009). John Carrol University: Cleaveland, Ohio, October 16-18, 2009. (Invited).
• Automated Event Mining: Approaches and Practices. Leetaru, Kalev. (2009). First International Crisis Mapping Conference (ICCM2009). John Carrol University: Cleaveland, Ohio, October 16-18, 2009. (Invited).
• Invited Discussant: Crisis Event Monitoring. Leetaru, Kalev. (May 2009). Soul of the New Machine: Human Rights, Technology & New Media. UC Berkeley, May 4-5, 2009. (Invited).
• Airbrushing History, American Style: The Mutability of Government Documents in the Digital Era. Leetaru, Kalev & Althaus, Scott. (January/February 2009). D-Lib. Vol 15, Issue 1/2.
• Digital Media Management and Large-Scale Digitization and Digital Access: Information management lessons from the UIPhotos project, a collection of more than 80,000 images of the UIUC campus. Leetaru, Kalev. (2009). College of Business Office for Information Management (OIM) Brown Bag Seminar Series. University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. October 26, 2009.
• Collaborative Research In A "Big Data" World: Harnessing Advanced Collaborative Technology For Large-Scale Research. Leetaru, Kalev. (2009). College of Business Office for Information Management (OIM) Brown Bag Seminar Series. University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. October 8, 2009.

2008

• Mass book digitization: The deeper story of Google Books and the Open Content Alliance. Leetaru, Kalev. (October 6, 2008). First Monday. Vol. 13, Issue 10.
• Airbrushing History, American Style: The Mutability of Government Documents in the Digital Era. Althaus, Scott & Leetaru, Kalev. (2008). (Featured in the New York Times and in a New York Times Editorial).
• An Open Source Study of International Media Coverage of the WorldCom Scandal. Leetaru, Kalev. (2008). Journal of International Communication. Vol 14, Issue 2. pp. 66-86.
  
• The SPEED Project and Conflict Early Warning. Nardulli, Peter & Leetaru, Kalev. (2008). Conflict Early Warning Workshop. Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts. July 9-10, 2008. (Invited).
• Instant Messaging as a Hypermedium in the Making. Leetaru, Kalev. (2008). In Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication. Editors: Kelsey, Sigrid & St.Amant, Kirk. IGI, Inc.
  
• Invited Discussant. Nardulli, Peter & Leetaru, Kalev. (2008). United States Director of National Intelligence Open Source Intelligence Conference. Washington, DC. (Invited).

2007

• News Archives, Advanced Information Technologies and Human Rights: An Event Analysis for the Post WW-II Era. Nardulli, Peter & Leetaru, Kalev. (2007). Center for Human Rights Documentation & Research Conference. Columbia University, New York, New York, October 4-6, 2007. (Invited).
• I-CHASS and RiverWeb: Technology and Outreach. Leetaru, Kalev & Onderdonk, James. (2007). Great Ideas Sessions Outreach Scholarship Conference 2007. Madison, Wisconsin. October 7-9, 2007.
• Invited Discussant. Nardulli, Peter & Leetaru, Kalev. (2007). United States Director of National Intelligence Open Source Intelligence Conference. Washington, DC. (Invited).

2006

• The use of data mining methods to evaluate public interest in carbon sequestration. Leetaru, Kalev & Leetaru, Hannes. (2006). Fifth Annual Conference on Carbon Capture and Sequestration. Alexandria Mark Center, Alexandria, Virginia, May 8-11, 2006.
• Technology for Finding Funding for Emergency Prepardness & Response. Craig, Alan & Leetaru, Kalev. (2006). NCSA Private Sector Program Annual Meeting. Urbana, Illinois. June 20, 2006.

2005

• ShadowLight: A Flexible Environment for Multipurpose Design and Evaluation. Leetaru, Kalev. (2005). IS&T / SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging Science and Technology. San Jose, California. January 16-20, 2005.
• Empowering the Entrepreneur: Bringing the Power of Information Technology and the Web to the Entrepreneur. Craig, Alan & Leetaru, Kalev. (2005). Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. Kansas City, Missouri. May 10, 2005.
• Facilitating the Study of Prescriptive Language Behavior Through Automatic Database Building and Data Extraction. Kibbee, Douglas; Craig, Alan; Leetaru, Kalev. (2005). 10th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences. Urbana, Illinois. September 1, 2005.

2004

• ShadowLight: A Flexible Architecture for Immersive Rapid Prototyping and Design. (Abstract). Leetaru, Kalev. (2004). SIGGRAPH 2004. Los Angeles, California, July 7-12, 2004.
• VIAS: Data Mining the Entire Web. Leetaru, Kalev. (2004). US-Australia Collaboration Workshop on High-Performance Grids and Applications. Swiss Grand Hotel, Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia. June 8-9, 2004.