Noshir Contactor Meets with Fellow Web Science Trust Lab Directors in Germany

2016-05-25Posted inBlog, SONIC News

WSTNet Lab Directors got together at the start of the Web Science Conference this week in Hannover, Germany. Highlights of the meeting include the election of Steffen Staab as Chair and Pete Burnap as Vice-Chair, planning for this years’ Web Science Summer School at University of Koblenz (30 June to 6 July – ), and firming up of arrangements for World Wide Web Week – a global event celebrating 10 years of Web Science to be held later this year.

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Noshir and Colleagues Receive Outstanding Contribution Award for their paper “A Network Approach for Understanding and Analyzing Product Co-consideration Relations in Engineering Design

2016-05-24Posted inBlog, SONIC News

Noshir Contractor and colleagues; Wei Chen, Mingxian Wang, Yun Huang and Yan Fu received an Outstanding Contribution Award for being one of ten papers that were rated in the top 5% based on reviewers’ scores. Professor Wei Chen presented the findings of the paper in a Keynote presentation at the 14th International Design Conference.… Read the rest

Noshir Contractor Gives Keynote Address at the University of Colorado, Denver’s 4th Annual Network Leadership Training Academy

2016-05-24Posted inBlog, SONIC News

Noshir Contractor gave the keynote address at the University of Colorado, Denver’s 4th Annual Network Leadership Training Academy, titled  “Building and Leveraging Powerful Social Networks”. Click here for a link to the event page.

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The Network Leadership Training Academy (NLTA) is a place where network leaders gather to learn, share ideas, and develop skills for engaging in the “network way of working.” This 3-day workshop, hosted by the University of Colorado Denver’s Center on Collaborative Governance, is focused on building, managing, and evaluating effective networks.… Read the rest

Cutting costs: Sustainability matters even in complex networks

2016-05-19Posted inBlog, Networks in the News

A team of researchers at Northeastern University, led by famous networks researcher and physicist Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, explored how the concept of sustainability can be implemented in network analysis. The researchers approached this idea by defining the concept of control energy or “the amount of effort needed to control real-world complex systems.” They reported that this new metric can be utilized in all kinds of real-world complex systems, such as identifying critical points in online network security systems.… Read the rest

Jackie Ng Wins First Place in the Northwestern University Computational Research Day Visualization Challenge

2016-04-21Posted inBlog, SONIC News

SONIC PhD student Jackie Ng took home the gold in the Northwestern University Computational Research Day Visualization Challenge for her presentation on Nebula, an innovative new tool that uses network science to visualize discussion board threads. For winning first place, Jackie received an NVIDIA GeForce Titan X graphics card which retails for over $1,000!… Read the rest

En el marco del Programa La UBA para el Siglo XXI, comienza el ciclo de actividades con motivo del 30º aniversario de la creación del Programa de Educación a Distancia UBAXXI, con la conferencia “Potenciando la Ciencia de Redes para abordar los grandes retos sociales”, a cargo del Prof. Noshir Contractor.

2016-04-21Posted inBlog, SONIC News

El acceso a grandes volúmenes de información sobre los fenómenos sociales en general y sobre la red en particular tiene un valor extraordinario para los científicos sociales. Pero esta apasionante oportunidad debe estar acompañada de la reflexión sobre cómo los big data pueden dar lugar a nuevas teorías y métodos.… Read the rest

Indian Monsoon: Novel approach allows early forecasting

2016-04-21Posted inBlog, Networks in the News

Scientists from Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research used network analysis to predict Indian monsoon timing more accurately and significantly earlier. The new predictions will help farmers in the region decide when to plant their crops. As co-author Jürgen Kurths explains, “On Facebook or Twitter, you can follow how news is spreading, one posting leading to many others.… Read the rest