CACM RSS LATAM Online Workshop
September 25th and 26th, 2023
Monday, September 25th
Session 1 (starts at 13:00 GMT-3):
Sustainability & Culture
| Software for cultural-heritage objects - Ivan Sipiran | Chile |
| Extreme climate events - Daniel de Oliveira | Brazil |
| Cultural differences between Latin American and Euro-American societies - Hernán Astudillo | Chile, Colombia, Australia |
| ELLAS - Latin American Open Data for gender equality policies focusing on leadership in STEM - Cristiano Maciel and Indira Guzman | Bolivia, Brazil, Peru |
| ForestEyes Project - citizen scientists and machine learning assisting rainforest conservation - Alvaro Luiz Fazenda | Brazil |
Session 2 (starts at 15:00 GMT-3):
CS and Systems
| A scalable technological architecture for small-scale smart farming solutions in Latin America - José Antonio Brenes Carranza | Costa Rica |
| Implementing large graph databases - Gonzalo Navarro | Chile |
| Network Slicing (NS) - Joberto Sérgio Barbosa Martins | Brazil |
| Dew computing - Cristian Mateos | Argentina (with project collaborators from Chile, India, Norway and Austria) |
| The case of the Workshop on Requirements Engineering: an example of Latin America research cooperation - Julio Cesar Sampaio do Prado Leite | Argentina, Brazil, and Peru (with collaborators from Chile and Ecuador) |
| Recent advances on principles of distributed computing - an interdisciplinary approach - Sergio Rajsbaum | Mexico |
Tuesday, September 26th
Session 3 (starts at 13:00 GMT-3):
Education
| Computer-assisted language learning - Jazmín Vidal | Argentina |
| Automatic Classification of Errors and Teachers’ Feedback in Interactive Platforms for Learning Programming Languages - Franco Bulgarelli | Argentina |
| Computing everywhere, for everyone, at any level - Avelino Francisco Zorzo | Brazil |
| Open Education and computing: a pathway to democratize access to education in Brazil - William Simão de Deus | Brazil and United States |
| Program.ar: Computer Science at schools - Fernando Schapachnik | Argentina |
| Evaluation of user experience in virtual educational platforms through emotion detection by means of questionnaires and multimodal methods - Laura Nidia Aballay | Argentina / Colombia |
Session 4 (starts at 15:00 GMT-3):
Social Networks & Policy
| Brazilian digital degree certificate - Jean Everson Martina | Brazil |
| Gradual Differentially-Private Programming - Matías Toro | Chile |
| Plataforma Telar and its knowledge graph: mapping the Chilean Constitutional Convention - Juan L. Reutter | Chile |
| Innovation policy for large public information systems: the case of Argentina’s e-Sidif - Gabriel Baum | Argentina |
| Misinformation through WhatsApp and Telegram in Brazil: lessons learned and future perspectives - Fabrício Benevenuto | Brazil |
| Social media as a reflection of society: communications, crisis, and engagement through the lens of Twitter in Argentina - Antonela Tommasel | Argentina |
Session 5 (starts at 17:00 GMT-3):
AI & Health
| GENis: An open-source forensic genetics software to contribute to judicial cooperation - Gustavo Sibilla | Argentina, Mexico, and Dominican Republic |
| Sustainable AI - Henrique Varella Ehrenfried | Brazil |
| Bias in Natural Language Processing - Luciana Benotti | Argentina |
| Socially assistive robots - Débora Christina Muchaluat Saade | Mexico, Brazil, and United States |
| Adventures in Natural Language Processing in Brazil during the pandemic and its aftermath - Marcelo Finger | Brazil |
| Navigating unseen waters: exploring AI oversight in Latin America - Valeria Herskovic | Chile |