Paper co-authored with collaborators at RPI and NCI wins Top Paper Award at HICSS 2013
Paper titled Towards Next Generation Health Data Exploration: A Data Cube-based Investigation into Population Statistics for Tobacco by James P. McCusker, Abdul Shaikh, Noshir Contractor, Paul Courtney, Jeongmin Lee, Glen Morgan, Zaria Tatalovich, Chavon Thomas, and Deborah L. McGuinness received the Top Paper award in the IT Innovation for Change in Healthcare track at the HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES (HICSS) 2013. Paper available at: http://bit.ly/HICSS2013
Article by Brian Keegan (SONIC alum, now at Northeastern U), Darren Gergle (Northwestern U) and Noshir Contractor (SONIC) titled “Hot Off the Wiki: Structures and Dynamics of Wikipedia’s Coverage of Breaking News Events” published in American Behavioral Scientist
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Contractor delivered a keynote at the 2012 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Informatics in Washington on Dec 16, 2012.
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“SONIC lab is near state-of-the-art in our collaborations between social scientists and software developers.”
-Noshir Contractor, Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences
Contractor presented a seminar titled “Some Assembly Required: Organizing in the 21st Century” at Northwestern University, Qatar, on Dec 2, 2012
SONIC members Sneha Narayan and Noshir Contractor participated in a workshop on “Climate Change and Sustainability Communication- New Tools and Trends” held on December 1, 2012 at Northwestern University Qatar.
The event was associated with the annual meeting of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP 18, being held in Doha, Qatar. For more information see: http://bit.ly/cop18-NU-Q
SONIC publication receives 2012 National Communication Association’s Organizational Communication Division’s Article of the Year Award
Whitbred, R., Fonti, F., Steglich, C., & Contractor, N. (2011). From Microactions to Macrostructure and Back: A Structurational Approach to the Evolution of Organizational Networks. Human Communication Research, 37(3), 404–433.
Contractor delivered a keynote at the 1st China National Conference on Social Computing (NCSC 2012) on November 16, 2012 in Beijing.
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Contractor delivered a keynote at a conference on “Team Science: History, Theory, & Concepts” organized by Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis on November 9, 2012
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Contractor delivered the dinner keynote at the “Advancing the Science of Multiteam Systems” meeting in Varenna, Italy on October 28th.
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