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At the Northwestern Office for Sponsored Research (NU OSR) in Evanston, Illinois on February 27th, Noshir Contractor delivered a Brown Bag presentation titled “Using Computational Social Science to Address Grand Societal Challenges”. The office is Northwestern’s arm for assisting and developing funded programs in support of the university’s research mission. […]

At the 2015 Machine Learning and Data Analytics Symposium (MLDAS 2015) in Doha, Qatar, Noshir Contractor delivered a talk titled “Leveraging Computational Social Science to Address Grand Societal Challenges” on March 10th. The symposium was co-organized by Boeing and the Qatar Computing Research Institute. Learn more about the symposium and […]

Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management is hosting the Computational Social Science Conference from May 15th to 17th. The purpose of the summit is to advance sociological knowledge through computational methods. The conference will host workshops, a datathon, and prominent speakers such as David Ferrucci (Bridgewater Associates), Katy Börner (Indiana […]

Noshir Contractor spoke on how to enable professional networks in Naperville, Illinois on February 20th at the Chicago Collaboration for Women in STEM conference. He highlighted a “3D Approach” that focused on discovering, diagnosing, and ...

At the nPOD Annual Conference on February 22nd in St. Pete Beach, Florida, Noshir Contractor delivered the keynote address on “The Science of Team Science” in the biomedical field. The agenda of the conference elaborated: “To learn about how collaborations work, we have one of the country’s experts on the […]