Alon Halevy

The Beckman report on database research

2016 · Communications of the ACM

Database researchers paint big data as a defining challenge. To make the most of the enormous opportunities at hand will require focusing on five research areas.

Detecting and Understanding Harmful Memes: A Survey

2022

The automatic identification of harmful content online is of major concern for social media platforms, policymakers, and society. Researchers have studied textual, visual, and audio content, but typically in isolation. Yet, harmful content often combines …

Building Human Values into Recommender Systems: An Interdisciplinary Synthesis

2023 · ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems

Recommender systems are the algorithms which select, filter, and personalize content across many of the world's largest platforms and apps. As such, their positive and negative effects on individuals and on societies have been extensively …