Media

Selected press and media coverage of the lab’s work, from crowdsourced Civil War photo identification to open-source intelligence and human–AI collaboration.

National & international

The AI spy
Communications of the ACM

Nov 2024
It took an army of internet sleuths to find ‘Celebrity Number Six’
Wall Street Journal

Sep 2024
The still lives and distant voices of old family photographs
Financial Times

Jun 2024
Twitch influencers ruined r/Place for everyone
Vice

Apr 2022
Image mocks a Tesla recharging with a generator. Here’s what it doesn’t show
PolitiFact

Nov 2021
Civil War Photographs as Resources
C-SPAN

Mar 2021
History’s Greatest Mysteries: “The Escape of John Wilkes Booth”
The History Channel

Dec 2020
No evidence Joe Biden’s great-grandfather was Confederate soldier, enslaved people
PolitiFact

Jun 2020
Did Joe Biden’s Great-Grandfather Own Slaves?
Snopes

Jun 2020
How Artificial Intelligence is Helping Identify Thousands of Unknown Civil War Soldiers
TIME

Dec 2019
Satchmo In His Adolescence: 1915 Film Clip May Show Young Louis Armstrong
NPR

Jun 2019
Naming Private Ryan
American Way·American Airlines inflight magazine, page 32

Mar 2019
AI Could Help You Identify Civil War Vets in Your Family Tree
Popular Mechanics

Mar 2019
The Computer Scientist Who Wants to Put a Name to Every Face in Civil War Photographs
Smithsonian

Mar 2019
AI Could Help Identify Civil War Veterans in Your Family
Fox News

Mar 2019
Who’s behind that beard? Historians are using facial recognition software to identify people in Civil War photographs
Slate

Nov 2018
Online sleuths are using face recognition to identify Civil War soldiers in old photographs
Fast Company

Nov 2018
Facial Recognition Software Is Helping Identify Unknown Figures in Civil War Photographs
Smithsonian

Nov 2018
WWII in a new light: Anonymous soldier surveys tell stories of morale, race relations
Stars and Stripes

May 2018
How to Run a Successful Mobile Crowdsourcing Project
IEEE Spectrum

Jul 2016
The Power of Crowds
Science

Jan 2016
What Makes a Great Tweet
Harvard Business Review

May 2012
Cool It With the Hashtags: How to Not Be Extremely Annoying on Twitter
TIME

Feb 2012
Be Better at Twitter: The Definitive, Data-Driven Guide
The Atlantic

Jan 2012
4 Online Services to Satisfy Your Vanity
CNN

Jan 2011

Regional & local

Kurt Luther recognized for contributions to crowd computing and human-AI collaboration
VT News

Dec 2025
Rescue Reimagined: How AI and AR could transform search missions
VT News

Nov 2025
Search committee named for Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology’s executive director
VT News

Oct 2025
Committee selected for the inaugural executive director of the Institute for Advanced Computing
VT News

Sep 2025
Institute for Advanced Computing researchers receive grants to safeguard cybersecurity threats
VT News

Aug 2025
Second cohort of Dean’s Fellows advances College of Engineering strategic plan
VT News

May 2025
Project uses AI, crowdsourcing to piece together history through photos
VT News

Apr 2025
Using investigative tools to fortify small business cybersecurity
VT News

Nov 2024
Research grows at Virginia Tech Innovation Campus in D.C. area
VT News

Aug 2024
Class of 2024: Andreea Sistrunk graduates with a Ph.D., a life lesson, and a motto to live by
VT News

May 2024
Women encouraged to pursue careers in AI test and evaluation during Virginia Tech National Security Institute workshop
VT News

Feb 2024
Researchers study the crowdsourced investigation of Jan. 6, 2021
VT News

May 2023
Interdisciplinary team receives continued support to visualize the past
VT News

May 2023
Augmented reality aids search and rescue research
VT Magazine

Apr 2023
Virginia Tech’s Center for Future Work Places and Practices launches
VT News

Jan 2023
Students perform mock search and rescue research using augmented reality
VT News

Dec 2022
Twelve Virginia Tech faculty join Innovation Campus
VT News

Apr 2022
Historians launch website offering uncensored views from American soldiers in World War II
VT News

Dec 2021
Commonwealth Cyber Initiative funds seven projects to curb the spread of misinformation campaigns
VT News

Aug 2021
Researchers are pulling movements out of microfilm with digital history
VT News

Jul 2021
This lab teaches students to debunk false information
VT News

Jun 2021
Team tackles the untold stories of the Civil War through augmented reality
VT News

Mar 2021
Civil War Weekend goes virtual for the first time with an array of free events in March
VT News

Mar 2021
Tech on Tap: Using Technology to Explore Black History in Civil War Alexandria
VT News

Feb 2021
Computer science professor’s photo sleuth software helps investigate 150-year mystery of John Wilkes Booth
VT News

Dec 2020
Trump supporters launch crowd sleuthing effort to identify whistleblower, says expert
VT News

Oct 2019
On the Record: Humans and artificial intelligence help identify photos from the past
VT News

Oct 2019
Researchers discuss AI and what it means for the future
WDVM

Oct 2019
Crowdsourcing effort to ID Trump’s whistleblower not the first name-and-shame effort
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Oct 2019
The American Soldier in World War II project receives National Endowment for Humanities grant
VT News

Sep 2019
Media Advisory: The future of AI and what it means for humans
VT News

Sep 2019
Beyond Queen’s stomp-stomp-clap: Computer scientist finds social media boosts engagement during live shows
VT News

Jun 2019
Computer scientists develop dynamic checklist so web designers can work more efficiently, creatively
VT News

May 2019
Software platform engages communities in school rezoning decisions
VT News

Apr 2019
A Civil War find of a high tech kind
Roanoke Times / Richmond Times-Dispatch

Mar 2019
Researcher releases facial recognition software to identify Civil War soldiers
VT News

Mar 2019
Victory in Europe Day to be commemorated with national effort to make available insights of American soldiers during World War II
VT News

May 2018
Harnessing the Power of Crowds
WVTF

Aug 2017
Crowdsourced Civil War-era digital archive helps interpret the past, present via Fourth of July
VT News

Jun 2017
Assistant Professor Kurt Luther receives National Science Foundation award
VT News

Mar 2017
Researchers receive funding to crowdsource effects of environmental chemicals
VT News

Feb 2017
Team to create crowdsourced archive of Civil War-era Independence Day documents
VT News

Oct 2015