wikilinks should remain in mainspace
|
|
||
Line 44: | Line 44: | ||
==Education== |
==Education== |
||
Halfaker earned a [[Bachelor of Science]] degree in [[computer science]] from the [[College of St. Scholastica]] in 2006, where he started off as a [[physical therapy]] major but switched to computer science after taking a programming class with Diana Johnson.<ref>{{cite web |title=Computer science alum making headlines through work at Wikipedia |author-first=Valerie |author-last=Clark |url=https://www.css.edu/undergraduate/outcomes/alumni-success-stories/new-frontiers.html |access-date=2017-01-31}}</ref> He subsequently earned a [[PhD]] in computer science from the [[GroupLens Research]] lab at the [[University of Minnesota]] in 2013.<ref name=phd>{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=Aaron|last=Halfaker |title=Maintaining the efficiency of open production systems at scale: A case study of wikipedia |publisher=University of Minnesota |date=2013 |url=https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/162489 |website=umn.edu |oclc=1194828572 |id= {{proquest|3607902}} |hdl=11299/162489}} {{free access}}</ref> |
Halfaker earned a [[Bachelor of Science]] degree in [[computer science]] from the [[College of St. Scholastica]] in 2006, where he started off as a [[physical therapy]] major but switched to computer science after taking a programming class with Diana Johnson.<ref>{{cite web |title=Computer science alum making headlines through work at Wikipedia |author-first=Valerie |author-last=Clark |url=https://www.css.edu/undergraduate/outcomes/alumni-success-stories/new-frontiers.html |access-date=2017-01-31}}</ref> He subsequently earned a [[PhD]] in computer science from the [[GroupLens Research]] lab at the [[University of Minnesota]] in 2013.<ref name=phd>{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=Aaron|last=Halfaker |title=Maintaining the efficiency of open production systems at scale: A case study of wikipedia |publisher=University of Minnesota |date=2013 |url=https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/162489 |website=umn.edu |oclc=1194828572 |id= {{proquest|3607902}} |hdl=11299/162489}} {{free access}}</ref> |
||
==Career and research== |
==Career and research== |
Aaron Halfaker
| |
---|---|
![]() | |
Born | (1983-12-27) December 27, 1983 (age 40) |
Alma mater | The College of St. Scholastica (BS) University of Minnesota (PhD)[5][6] |
Scientific career | |
Fields |
|
Institutions | Microsoft Research Wikimedia Foundation Google[2] |
Thesis | Maintaining the efficiency of open production systems at scale: A case study of wikipedia (2013) |
Doctoral advisor | John T. Riedl[3] |
recorded January 2017 | |
Website | halfaker |
Aaron Halfaker (/ˈhæfeɪkər/; born December 27, 1983) is principal applied scientist at Microsoft Research.[1][7][2] He previously served as a research scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation until 2020.[8][9][10]
Halfaker earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from the College of St. Scholastica in 2006, where he started off as a physical therapy major but switched to computer science after taking a programming class with Diana Johnson.[11] He subsequently earned a PhD in computer science from the GroupLens Research lab at the University of Minnesota in 2013.[3]
Halfaker is known for his research on Wikipedia[12][13] and the decrease in the number of active editors of the site.[14][15][16] He has said that Wikipedia began a "decline phase" around 2007 and has continued to decline since then.[17][18] Halfaker has also studied software agents (bots) on Wikipedia,[19] and the way they affect new contributors to the site.[8] While a graduate student he developed a tool for Wikipedia editing called Snuggle with Stuart Geiger. Snuggle tackles vandalism on Wikipedia and highlights constructive contributions by new editors.[20][21] He has also built an artificial intelligence (AI) service called Objective Revision Evaluation Service (ORES), used to identify vandalism on Wikipedia and distinguish it from good faith edits.[22][23]
Authority control databases: Academics ![]() |
|
---|
![]() | This biographical article relating to a computer specialist in the United States is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |