“One more step along the long road towards brain-to-brain interfaces” (PLOS Neuro blog)
http://blogs.plos.org/neuro/2015/09/24/one-more-step-along-the-long-road-towards-brain-to-brain-interfaces/… Read the rest
To celebrate Kits and Cats Day, SONIC Lab welcomed 14 inquisitive sophomores from Evanston Township High School to test their social network knowledge using our 6DOS dashboard. Spoiler alert, teenagers are pretty good at disseminating information! To read more about the 6DOS project in the context of the Gates Project, click here.… Read the rest
OpenStreetMap is an open-sourced mapping website, which is a website where anyone, anywhere can edit and add infrastructure, stores, traffic jams, and more. These different map layers can be taken off and on by an individual user depending on what they are looking for.… Read the rest
October 7th, 2015, Polo Chau visited Northwestern University’s SONIC Lab to give a talk on Data Mining Meets HCI: Scalable Interactive Tools for Large Graph Sensemaking.
Polo’s recorded presentation can be found by visiting our Youtube Page or by visiting Polo’s Page on our SONIC Speaker Series.… Read the rest
Letter from Silicon Valley about LinkedIn’s the founder and executive chairman, Reid Hoffman. In 2003, Hoffman and Mark Pincus, the founder and chief executive of the gaming site Zynga, bought the Six Degrees patent, a methodology for constructing social networks. When he started LinkedIn, “the most popular social-networking sites, like Friendster and MySpace, didn’t focus on business; and the most popular employment sites, like Monster.com, didn’t focus on social networks.”
LinkedIn currently has more than three hundred and eighty million members, and it is working on creating “the economic graph, which would track all employment activity in the world, for the 3.3 billion people who work, with LinkedIn as the platform”.… Read the rest
WIRED correspondent Nick Stockton claims that all 10 scientists receiving a 2015 MacArthur Genius Grant have one important unifying trait: network thinking. Thought the MacArthur Foundation claims to have no systematic bias beyond “exceptional creativity”, Stockton argues that, from policy to programming, each recipient’s work demonstrates “how individual parts affect a whole system, or how a network affects its nodes”, claiming “that’s where most of the big work in science is headed.… Read the rest
On September 9th, 2015, Ludo Waltman visited Northwestern University’s SONIC Lab to give a talk on Large-scale analysis of bilbliometric networks: Tools, techniques, and applications. Ludo’s full abstract, as well as the presentation, can be seen below.
Abstract
The analysis of bibliometric networks has the potential to offer deep insights into the structure and dynamics of science.… Read the rest
Alina Lungeanu successfully defended her dissertation proposal titled “Assembly Mechanisms of Interdisciplinary Scientific Teams and Their Impact on Performance” on September 7th, 2015. The committee it was presented to included Noshir Contractor (chair), Darren Gergle, Brian Uzzi, Uri Wilensky, and Teresa Woodruff.… Read the rest
The Onion Router or “Tor” Network is a free web browser that allows for seemingly anonymous communication across the web. It does this by directing one’s traffic through numerous relays (nodes) all over the world, making it difficult to pinpoint the original user.… Read the rest
SONIC Lab is proud to welcome Ryan Boyd, who will present a talk on Wednesday, November 18th, 2015 at 10:00 AM in the SONIC Lab in the Frances Searle Building 1-459. All are welcome to attend. To schedule a one-on-one meeting with Ryan Boyd please schedule a time here.… Read the rest