Noshir Contractor featured as Distinguished Lecturer at the Vienna University of Technology’s PhD School Series

Noshir Contractor gave a talk on June 9th, 2015 at the Vienna University of Technology’s PhD School Series in Vienna, Austria. The title of the series was “Current Trends in Computer Science,” and Contractor’s talk was titled “Leveraging Computational Social Science to address Grand Societal Challenges.” Read more about the […]

New article talks about the connection between rumors, diseases, and memes

In Mason A. Porters’ article in the Oxford University Press “What do rumors, diseases, and memes have in common?â€� the idea presented is multilayer networks. Multilayer networks are networks that will fix the incorrect predictions about the spreading of information through different networks. Porter argues that many incorrect predictions of […]

Info, pictures from INGRoup Doctoral Consortium, website now live

The INGroup Doctoral Consortium was held on July 22, 2015 in Pittsburgh, PA. Organized by Northwestern University and Georgia Tech, the all day consortium featured panels on topics such as obtaining grant funding, developing a program of research and computational social science. Student participants had the opportunity to present their research in small groups […]

Noshir Contractor and SONIC alum win Top 4 Paper Award for “The Effect of Synchronization of Group Processes on Multiteam System Effectiveness�

At the 2015 National Communication Association Annual Conference, Noshir Contractor, as well as several current, former, and future SONIC members, will receive the Top 4 Paper Award for their paper, “The Effect of Synchronization of Group Processes on Multiteam System Effectiveness.” The authors of this paper include Toshio Murase, Raquel Asencio, Joseph D. McDonald, Marshall […]

Noshir Contractor guest lecturer at Vienna Summer School on Digital Humanities

Noshir Contractor, SONIC Director, was a guest lecturer from July 6th-10th at the Vienna Summer School on Digital Humanities. The courses he taught included Introduction to Social Network Analysis, Descriptive Network Analytics, Predictive Network Analytics, and  Leveraging Computational Social Science to Address Grand Societal Challenges.… Read the rest