A community surface for academic research happening in and around Cursor Boston. Researchers post calls for study participants, share pre-prints for community discussion, and publish datasets the community can explore, cite, or build on. All entries are repo-backed — content lives in each researcher's own GitHub repo; this page is the discovery layer.
A new conference convening the scholars, practitioners, educators, and worker advocates whose work bears on algorithmacy — the communication competency through which a worker coordinates with another human party through an algorithmic third party. Convened by Roger Hunt III (Bentley University), hosted by GauntleTT in partnership with a Trinidad institutional partner.
Submitting now: open a pull request.
While the formal submission portal is being set up, the program committee is already accepting proposed-talk submissions through this repository. Add one Markdown file at content/research/cfp/algorithmacy-conference/submissions/<your-handle>.md including three things:
Example Researcher (Example University — HCI Lab)
We're studying how developers structure conversations with AI assistants during real coding tasks. Looking for 30 working developers comfortable with VS Code or Cursor; 45-minute remote session, screen-recorded.
Example Lead Researcher (Example University — Industrial-Organizational Psychology)
Looking for a co-author with psychometric / SEM expertise to help validate a 24-item algorithmacy scale across rideshare and AI-engineering populations (N = ~1,200 collected). Authorship by contribution; targeting a Q1 journal.
Example Theory Researcher (Example University — Org Behavior)
Theory paper proposing weekly synchronized deadlines as a coordination primitive in otherwise async distributed cohorts. Draws on coordination theory and free-rider literature.
Example Researcher Two (Example University — Learning Sciences)
Diary study following Cursor Boston cohort participants weekly for 6 weeks. We're interested in why people start, persist, or drop out of community shipping commitments.
Example Workshop Organizer (Example University — HCI Lab) · Example Co-Organizer (Example Industry Lab)
One-day workshop at CHI 2027 on the design challenges of three-party human-AI-human coordination — interfaces where one human acts on another through an algorithmic intermediary. Position papers and design provocations welcome.
Cursor Boston Maintainers
Anonymized event log from Cursor Boston summer cohort 1: weekly submission timestamps, PR sizes, and voting results across six weeks. No PII; opt-in basis. For researchers studying community shipping behavior.
Example Author One (Example University)
Original study sampled 14 maintainers from JavaScript / TypeScript OSS projects. Seeking a researcher to replicate the protocol in the Python / data-science ecosystem (~12 interviews). Interview protocol + codebook provided; replication report would be co-authored.
Example Author One (Example University) · Example Author Two (Example Lab)
Field interviews with 14 OSS maintainers on how AI-generated pull requests change review workload, trust calibration, and project governance. Working paper — feedback welcome before journal submission.
Example Author One (Example University)
Companion dataset to the AI-assisted PR review preprint. 200 anonymized review threads from public OSS repos, hand-annotated with review-action types and reviewer-trust signals.
Example Special-Issue Editor (Example University — Management)
Call for full papers on platform work, algorithmic management, and worker-level coordination outcomes. Empirical and theoretical contributions welcome; mixed-methods strongly encouraged.