Noshir Contractor received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, where he received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering in 1983. He received the award during IITM’s 59th Institute Day ceremonies held on April 26th, 2018. http://alumni.iitm.ac.in/daa/list.php?yr=2018
Are we really going to Mars? The astronautical community certainly believes the answer is “yes.” Scientists all over the world are solving puzzles related to rocket reusability, human resistance to radiation exposure, and terraforming Mars to warm it up and give it a breathable atmosphere.… Read the rest
SONIC members present various projects throughout SIOP 2018:
| April 19th, Thursday |
| 5:00 – 6:00 pm, Room Chicago 7 – Panel Symposium Life in the Network: From People Analytics to Relational Analytics Prasad Balkundi, Ron Burt, Noshir Contractor, Paul Leonardi, Tracey Rizzuto, Jacqueline Ng |
| April 20, Friday |
| 5:00 – 5:50 pm, Room Chicago 10, Session M – Symposium Symposium: Qualitative Perspectives on 21st Century Teams “A Qualitative Examination of Informal Leadership Emergence in Space Teams” Lindsay Larson & Leslie DeChurch 7:45 – 10:00 pm, Grand Ballroom SIOP Shaken & Stirred: “What’s the Big Idea?” A Special Evening Event for the I/O Psychology Community Leslie DeChurch |
| April 21, Saturday |
| 10:00 -10:50 am, Riverwalk A – Poster Session “The Language of Leaders: Semantic Indicators of Informal Leader Emergence” Zachary M. |
Noshir Contractor presented on “Leveraging Computational Social Science to Address Grand Societal Challenges” on April 16, 2018.
The increased access to big data about social phenomena in general, and network data in particular, has been a windfall for social scientists. But these exciting opportunities must be accompanied with careful reflection on how big data can motivate new theories and methods.… Read the rest
The Ph.D. student, Diego Gómez-Zará, and the CITEP’s Director of Projects, Silvia Andreoli, presented the findings and results of the My Dream Team case study elaborated at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Both scholars were interviewed in the program “Académicamente” transmitted by the radio of the university.… Read the rest
On April 9th, Professor Noshir Contractor and his Ph.D. student Diego Gómez-Zará presented the results of the team assembly case study conducted at the Center for Technological and Pedagogical Innovation (CITEP – Centro de Innovación en Tecnología y Pedagogía). The talk was given at the University of Buenos Aires in Buenos Aires, Argentina.… Read the rest
Diego Gómez-Zará is going to attend the 13th Annual INGRoup Conference on July 18-22, in Washington, DC. He will present one of the My Dream Team project’s publications called “Social Cognition and Team Assembly: Competence, Warmth, or Embeddedness,” co-authored with Jacqueline Ng, Marlon Twyman, Silvia Andreoli, Leslie DeChurch, and Noshir Contractor.… Read the rest
Sid Jha will give a lightning talk “A Computational Platform to Evaluate the Ability to Perceive Social Connections” at the 2018 Computational Research Day on April 10, 2018. Moreover, Sid and Matt (both Undergraduate Research Assistants at SONIC) will present their posters then, respectively:
Both abstracts and posters are available: http://computational-research-day.s3-website.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/posters/… Read the rest
Social networking to Mars – SONIC and ATLAS members will present two papers at the upcoming Sunbelt conference on June 26 – July 1st in Utrecht, Netherlands. See the details here.… Read the rest
Jeremy Foote attended iConference on March 27, 2018 in Sheffield, UK where he presented work on characterizing founders of online peer production communities, coauthored with Noshir Contractor.
Foote, J., Contractor, N. The Behavior and Network Position of Peer Production Founders.… Read the rest
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