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Virtual Organizations as Sociotechnical Systems : IT Management Group – a research group at the department of Informatics, Umeå University.

SONIC lab member Ryan Whalen will present a talk at the Argonne National Laboratory LANS seminar series this afternoon.  The talk, titled "Legal Complexity: Measuring complexity within the Supreme Court precedent network and predicting network growth" explores using network analytic techniques to help us better understand legal system development.

Why Women Need Women-Only Networks – Forbes.

The Perfect Milk Machine: How Big Data Transformed the Dairy Industry – Atlantic Mobile.

SONIC Lab is proud to welcome Northwestern Prof. Larry Birnbaum, who will present a talk titled "From Contextual Search to Automatic Content Generation: Scaling Human Editorial Judgment" on Monday May 21st from 11:00am-12:00pm in Frances Searle Building, Room 1.421 on Northwestern's Evanston Campus. All are welcome to attend. Systems that present people with information inescapably make editorial judgments in determining what information to show and how to show it. However the editorial values used to make these judgments are generally invisible to users and in many cases even to the engineers who design them. ...