CASOS Center - Carnegie Mellon University

📢 Summer Institute Update

Our annual Summer Institute training workshop has been rescheduled to August 10–14, 2026.

Join us for an engaging week of learning, collaboration, and connection.

Registration is now open!

🔗 Learn more and register: https://www.cmu.edu/casos-center/events/index.html

We hope you can join us this August!

IDeaS Knight fellow researcher Evan Williams explains how BEND metrics offer analysts a systematic and standardized way to characterize attempts to manipulate webgraphs using common Search Engine Optimization tactics. Read the full blog here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.13212