Each episode is a deep dive into a top research paper from UW–Madison’s Department of Computer Sciences. Stream the first two episodes now.
The Department of Computer Sciences is proud to introduce Paper Trail, a new research podcast that brings cutting-edge scholarship directly to listeners. The first two episodes are now available for streaming.
Each episode explores research that has earned recognition at top conferences and journals, making complicated themes and discoveries accessible to students, fellow researchers, and anyone curious about how today’s theoretical advances become tomorrow’s transformative technologies.
Powered by artificial intelligence, Paper Trail provides an engaging window into the questions driving computer science forward. Subscribe on YouTube to be the first to hear about future episodes.
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Episode 1: Why courts fail survivors of digital abuse
The premiere episode of Paper Trail covers “Legal Evidence of Technology-Facilitated Abuse in Wisconsin: Surfacing Barriers Within and Beyond the Courtroom,” first presented at the 28th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW). The paper is by UW–Madison researchers Sophie Stephenson, Naman Gupta, Akhil Polamarasetty (now at University College London), Kyle Huang, David Youssef, Kayleigh Cowan (now at Disability Rights Wisconsin), and Rahul Chatterjee.
The study, which received an honorable mention for Best Paper at CSCW, investigates the harassment, surveillance, and image-based sexual abuse that survivors of technology-facilitated abuse may face. These barriers make a difficult position even harder, further obfuscating the abilities of survivors to collect and present legal evidence in court proceedings like restraining orders, divorces, and criminal cases.
Episode 2: The algorithm revolutionizing your digital world
This episode highlights “Output-sensitive Conjunctive Query Evaluation” by UW–Madison researchers Paris Koutris, Hangdong Zhao, Austen Fan, and Shaleen Deep (now at Microsoft). In addition to receiving the Research Highlights Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD), the authors also received the Best Paper Award at the ACM SIGMOD Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS).
Written in collaboration with Microsoft Gray Systems Lab, the paper details a novel, output-sensitive algorithm for evaluating acyclic conjunctive queries (CQs), a fundamental operation in database systems.
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