
Michael L. Nelson
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Professor: @WebSciDL @ODUcs @ODUVMASC @ODUDataScience (2002-now);
Engineer: @NASA_Langley (1991-2002);
Postdoc: @UNCSILS (2000-2001)
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In this blog post, I summarized Goel et al.’s "Jawa: Web Archival in the Era of JavaScript". They identified sources of non-determinism that cause replay problems and created a crawler that removes non-deterministic code. #WebArchiveWednesday WS-DL Group, ODU CS ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/06/2025-0…

🎉 Congratulations to Bhanuka Mahanama on successfully defending your PhD dissertation! Your hard work and perseverance truly paid off. Wishing continued success, Dr. Mahanama. Sampath Jayarathna nirds-lab WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU Computer Science #PhDdefense


Congratulations Bhanuka Bhanuka Mahanama, for a successful Ph.D. defence titled "Mutli-Eyes: Multi-Use Eye Tracking Using Commodity Hardware. " My 4th Ph.D. student from the nirds-lab WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU Computer Science @odusc. Also, a Sri Lankan-style feast including yellow rice, cashews, and chicken!



The Call for Papers for the 2025 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries is online. Check it out 2025.jcdl.org/calls/. WS-DL Group, ODU CS

Reflecting on #GAAD2025: The “Accessible by Design” workshop led by Dr. Brett Cook-Snell and hosted by ODU Libraries and the EWDA—moved beyond just technical skills to address the core of digital inclusion. (1/5) ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/06/2025-0… /cc WS-DL Group, ODU CS Old Dominion University ODU College of Sciences ODU Computer Science Accessible Computing Lab

Lecturer in Data Science (#F1048A) School of Data Science at ODU non-TT position, starting Fall 2025 4+4 teaching load reviews start on 2025-06-23 jobs.odu.edu/postings/23300

#Storymodelers are in #Lesvos 🇬🇷#with Old Dominion University grad students and peers from Uni of Athens & Luxembourg, taking the first steps in creating a #digitalTimeMachine for the island. Exciting & fast-paced fieldwork w/diverse faculty support! #DigitalHistory #interdisciplinary #Metochi



Using ChapGTP does not make you smarter, but dumber! arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872 WS-DL Group, ODU CS



Very excited about the opportunity to share @nirdslab WS-DL Group, ODU CS research at my alma mater, Department of Computer Science, University of Peradeniya University Of Peradeniya. Thank you for the souvenir! Thank you both Kumushini Thennakoon and Rochana R. Obadage for joining the session and demos. ODU College of Sciences


In my latest WS-DL Group, ODU CS blog post, I’m sharing thoughts on “#MemoRAG: Moving towards Next-Gen RAG Via Memory-Inspired Knowledge Discovery” (Qian et al., ACM Web Conference 2025)—a novel take on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (#RAG) that integrates memory mechanisms for richer,

Paper accepted to ACM Hypertext '25! 🎉 We show we can improve open-source LLMs to human level accuracy at distinguishing between human-written and LLM-generated science news. Thankful for my advisors for their support. Jian Wu Meng Jiang WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU Computer Science



This October, the The Wayback Machine is projected to hit a once-in-a-generation milestone: 1 trillion web pages archived. We’ll be commemorating this historic achievement on October 22 with a global celebration ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/07/01/way… Want to take part? 🧵 #Wayback1T

