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'''CSCW''' - (pronounced as quickly as possible). The Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. A division of the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery). [https://cscw.acm.org]
'''CSCW''' - (pronounced as quickly as possible). The Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. A division of the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery). [https://cscw.acm.org]
'''IC2S2''' - International Conference on Computational Social Science. [https://ic2s2.org]


'''jitsi''' - (pronounced 'JIT-see'). An online meetings platform similar to Google Hangout. [https://jitsi.org/ Jitsi Project Site]
'''jitsi''' - (pronounced 'JIT-see'). An online meetings platform similar to Google Hangout. [https://jitsi.org/ Jitsi Project Site]

Revision as of 19:12, 15 December 2017

This page contains jargon and common shorthand used within the team and perhaps more broadly.

ASA - American Sociological Assocation. [1]

CHI - (pronounced 'kai' not 'chee'). The Conference on Human Computer Interaction (CHI stands for Computer-Human Interaction). A division of the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery). 2017 Conference

CSCW - (pronounced as quickly as possible). The Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. A division of the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery). [2]

IC2S2 - International Conference on Computational Social Science. [3]

jitsi - (pronounced 'JIT-see'). An online meetings platform similar to Google Hangout. Jitsi Project Site

Computers

Hyak - (pronounced 'Hi-yak'). Supercomputer at UW. See hyak.

Nada - Another computer at UW mainly for interacting with the Internet.

Asha - Another computer at UW mainly for working with Scratch data.

Things that used to be on the above list but are not so important

guix - (pronounced 'geeks'). GNU Package Manager, for team use on hyak.