Press

News coverage and news mentions of research results in mainstream and specialized media (incomplete list).

Privacy and Non-Discrimination (2015-)

• Jordi Mumbrú: Com es decideix si un pres està preparat per treballar a la cuina? L’algoritme català RisCanvi ajuda a predir el risc de reincidir que té un pres. (in Catalan). Diari Ara, 19 Mar 2024.
• A Study Proposing Better Algorithms to Avoid Radicalization Won Best Paper Award. Current Science Daily, 7 Jun 2022.
• Catalunya usa un algoritmo para decidir a qué presos concede la libertad condicional (in Spanish). El Periodico, 17 Nov 2021 [copia]
• RisCanvi: luces y sombras del algoritmo que ayuda al juez en Cataluña a decidir si mereces la condicional (in Spanish). El Pais, 11 Jul 2021 [copia].
• Bienvenidos a la telesociedad (in Spanish). El Periódico, 4 Apr 2020.
• Can Artificial Intelligence Predict The Spread Of Online Hate Speech?, Forbes, 30 Aug 2019.
• Un algoritmo contra los algoritmos (in Spanish and Catalan), La Vanguardia, 19 May 2019.
• Els perills dels algoritmes que regulen la nostra vida sense que en siguem conscients (in Catalan). CCMA, February 2019
• Què són els algoritmes? Enemics o aliats? . TV3, February 2019
• Estupidez artificial: el problema que nadie vio venir (in Spanish). El Pais, November 2018
• Amics i Coneguts - Reportatge: És neutral la intel·ligència artificial? (in Catalan). RTVE Ràdio 4, December 2017.
• Intolerancia Artificial (in Spanish and Catalan). La Vanguardia, October 2017. [local copy]
• AI bias in hiring, loans, dating? This search tool aims to create a level playing field. ZDNet, September 2017.
• Treballen en un buscador "just" que afavorirà la discriminació positiva a internet (in Catalan). TV3, Julio 2017.
• Un nuevo motor de búsqueda favorecerá la discriminación positiva en internet (in Spanish). ABC, Julio 2017.
• Un nuevo motor de búsqueda favorecerá la discriminación positiva en internet (in Spanish). La Vanguardia, Julio 2017.
• El sucós negoci de les nostres dades (TV program, in Catalan). TV3, May 2017.
• La salud, el ‘big data’ más codiciado (in Spanish). La Vanguardia, February 2017.
• No vull que un algoritme decideixi quan m'han d'operar (in Catalan). Nació Digital, January 2017
• Big Data, conviviendo con el algoritmo (documentary in Spanish), RTVE, January 2017.
• El avance en anonimización allana el camino al 'big data' sanitario (in Spanish), Diario Medico, October 2016. [local copy]
• Efecto de las tecnologías de información y comunicación en la sociedad (TV program, in Spanish), Canal Taronja de Manresa, October 2016.
• Certes decisions sobre nosaltres són preses per un algoritme (in Catalan), Via Empresa, October 2016.

Humanitarian Technologies

Social Media for Crises and Emergencies (2013-)

• Wikipedia is flooded with information — but it has a blind spot. GRIST, Feb 2020.
• Wikipedia, una fuente de información sobre desastres naturales sesgada hacia los países ricos (en castellano). UPF Press Release, Jan 2020.
• Redes sociales para prevenir inundaciones (en castellano). Tiempo.com, Junio 2019.
• Redes sociales y modelos hidrológicos para hacer frente a las inundaciones (en castellano). La Sexta, May 2019.
• AI uses tweets to help researchers analyze floods. VentureBeat, April 2019.
• AI-analyzed tweets could help Europe track floods. Engadget, April 2019.
• Un proyecto de la UPF calcula extensión inundaciones a través redes sociales (in Spanish), La Vanguardia, November 2018.
• Improving disaster response with data, The Economist, January 2018.
• AI helps answer thousands of health queries in Zambia via SMS, New Scientist, April 2016.
• How to get Twitter riled up about global warming, Washington Post, April 2015.
• Il ruolo di Twitter durante le emergenze e i disastri, TG24 , February 2015.
• Terremoti, uragani e altre calamità: così su Twitter, La Stampa, March 2015.
• Crisis Tweets Study Identifies What to Expect During Emergencies, Emergency Management, February 2015.
• 10 Stories That Will Drive The Global Agenda in 2015, UN Dispatch, January 2015.
• Typhoon Hagupit: UN using crowdsourcing platform to help assess damage, The Guardian, December 2014.
• Micro-mapping Philippine’s typhoon disaster, IRIN News, November 2013.

UAVs for good (2014-)

• 'Where's Waldo' … but for Science, CNN, September 2014.

Social Media and Credibility (2011-)

Fake News and Credibility (2014-)

• Nuevo método para evaluar la calidad de las noticias científicas (in Spanish). SINC, 6 June 2019.
• Internet se rebela contra la dictadura de los algoritmos (in Spanish). El Pais, 28 April 2017.
• Can an Algorithm Solve Twitter’s Credibility Problem?, The New Yorker, May 2014.
• Lies are everywhere on the Internet. But this free tool could potentially fight them, The Washington Post, May 2014.
• This handy Chrome plugin tells you which tweets you can trust, Daily Dot, 2014.

Crowdsourced Verification (2013-2015)

• Online Fact-Checking Tool Gets a Big Test with Nepal Earthquake, MIT Technology Review, April 2015.
• Nowhere to hide: The next manhunt will be crowdsourced, New Scientist, April 2013.
• Preventing Misinformation from Spreading through Social Media, MIT Technology Review, April 2013.

Twitter Credibility (2011-2015)

• What makes a tweet believable?, BBC, July 2015.
• Building a Better Truth Machine., Slate Magazine, December 2012.
• False Tweets Busted By Algorithm That Sniffs Out The Truth On Twitter., Huffington Post, December 2012.
• Twitter algorithm can analyze the truthfulness of tweets., The Verge, December 2012.
• How Scientists Can Tell if Your Tweets are Truthful., Gizmodo, December 2012.
• Tool Tells True Tweets from Fakes., Scientific American (Podcast), December 2012.
• Accurate and credible news tweets? Automated system finds them., Ars Technica, March 2011.
• Decoding Our Chatter., The Wall Street Journal, October 2011.

Other

QNB Customer Data Leak (2016)

• Check to see if you were affected by the QNB hack on this website. Doha News, April 2016.
• Qatar National Bank: How to check if you are in the leaked financial files. International Business Times, April 2016.

Predictive Web Analytics (2013)

• Qatar-based team develops software that predicts the popularity of news stories, Doha News, August 2013.

Demographics of Search (2009-2010)

• Recommended economic research list, The Economist, July 2010.
• Innovation: Shrewd search engines know what you want, New Scientist, 2009.