Frode Hegland, PhD, is the Director of The Augmented Text Company , a UK-based independent research and software development firm. He serves as Co-Principal Investigator of The Future of Text In Extended Reality project and is the host and publisher of The Future of Text Symposium and its book series.
Behnam Rahdari is a postdoctoral scholar at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research. He holds a PhD in Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh and an MSc from the Polytechnic University of Milan. His research lies at the intersection of human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence, focusing on advancing Human-AI collaboration in search and recommender systems. He has received several academic honors, including the Best Blue Sky Paper Award (ACM Hypertext 2025), Best Demo Award (ACM RecSys 2021), and an Honorable Mention (ACM IUI 2025). He is also a recipient of the Catherine Ofiesh and Gerald Orner Award for academic excellence (2024). His doctoral research systematically investigated carousel-based interfaces, integrating theoretical modeling and empirical studies to examine their influence on user navigation and decision-making in complex domains such as education and health information access.
The 18th edition of the ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) was successfully held from March 10 to 14, 2025, at the Hannover Congress Centre (HCC), Hannover, Germany. WSDM 2025 was held as an in-person conference. The first day of the five-day event featured tutorials, industry day, and doctoral consortium. The next three days were the main conference days, which consisted of keynote speeches, plenary and poster sessions, and demo sessions. The last day of the event was dedicated to WSDM Cup, WSDM Day, diversity and inclusion sessions, and workshops. This brief report provides an overview of the organization, program details, and statistics from the Program Chairs and General Chairs. Further details are available at https://www.wsdm-conference.org/2025/. At the conclusion of this report, we express our deepest gratitude to the authors, volunteers, steering committee, sponsors, and supporters.
SIGWEB, the ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext and the Web, is a community of scholars, researchers, and professionals who study and use the concepts and technologies of linked information that were originally conceived as hypertext and are most famously realized on the Web. The SIGWEB community's interests range widely and include hypertext in all its forms, social networks, knowledge management, document engineering, digital libraries, and the Web as both an information tool and a social force. SIGWEB encourages innovative research, open discussion of new ideas and the development of methodologies and standards through conferences and a variety of communication resources for its members and the world. In this article, we report on SIGWEB activities and developments in the period July 2024 - July 2025.
The 25th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng 2025), taking place on September 2–5, 2025, at the University of Nottingham, UK, invites submissions on document-centric research, including AI-driven processing, accessibility, content analysis, and digital preservation. This year's special focus, Document Trust and Security, explores authenticity, integrity, and protection in automated content generation. A new Demonstration Track will showcase practical innovations in document engineering. Researchers, practitioners, and industry professionals are encouraged to contribute. Visit our official website for submission details.
