Noshir Contractor gives keynote address at the 2015 ASONAM Conference

Noshir Contractor gave a keynote talk at the 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining on August 27th in Paris, France. The title of his speech was “Leveraging Computational Social Science to address Grand Societal Challenges.”

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SONIC Presentations at Sunbelt Conference

SONIC Members presented at The International Sunbelt Social Network Conference in Brighton, UK on June 23– June 28, 2015. The dates, times, and locations, as well as abstracts for select presentations, can be found below.   Abstracts   A Multi-Relational Event Model for Understanding Channel Selection Aaron Schecter & Noshir Contractor […]

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 […]