Noshir Contractor facilitated a networking exercise in Rio de Janeiro on June 16th 2012 at an event titled Women Networking for Sustainability: Celebrating the Past & Envisioning the Future held concurrently with the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development.
lContractor participates in Committee for Aging Research
Noshir Contractor participated in the National Advisory Committee meeting for the Active Aging Research Center on May 31st -June 1st, 2012 in Madison, WI.
For more information go to http://aarc.chess.wisc.edu/?
Contractor presents paper at annual ICA convention
Noshir Contractor presented a paper titled “Origins and Consequences of Relational Pluralism in Multiteam Systems” coauthored with Leslie DeChurch, Georgia Institute of
Technology; Toshio Murase, Northwestern U and Amy Wax, Georgia Institute of Technology at the annual convention of the International Communication Association in Phoenix on May 25, 2012.
Contractor serves on Management and Performance panel
Noshir Contractor served as the respondent on a panel titled “Knowledge and Expertise: Communication in the Management and Performance of Knowledge” at the annual convention of the International Communication Association in Phoenix on May 25, 2012.
Contractor presents at ICA workshop
Noshir Contractor presented at the International Communication Association Organizational Communication Division Junior Scholar workshop in Phoenix on May 24, 2012.
For more information go to http://www.icahdq.org/conf/2012/preconferences.asp
Contractor presents at National Cancer Institute
Noshir Contractor presented “The role of networks in the assembly of effective teams” at a National Cancer Institute meeting on The Role of Health Care Teams in Cancer Care in Bethesda, MD on May 17, 2012.
For more information, go to http://www.cvent.com/events/
Ryan Whalen to present at Argonne National Laboratory
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.
Larry Birnbaum to Present in the SONIC Speaker Series
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.
About the talk
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. Our work is aimed at developing news and media information technologies that provide explicit and visible editorial control, at scale. Some of our most exciting work in this area is aimed at automatically generating stories from data. A system based on this technology is already generating more than 10 thousand stories weekly in areas ranging from sports, to business, to politics. This system is the nation’s most prolific and published author of, among other things, women’s collegiate softball stories. The stories compare favorably to those written by human beings.
About Larry Birnbaum
Larry Birnbaum received his PhD in computer science from Yale University in 1986, and joined the Northwestern faculty in 1989. His research in artificial intelligence and computer science has encompassed natural language processing, case-based reasoning, machine learning, human-computer interaction, educational software, and computer vision. Birnbaum has authored or coauthored more than eighty articles. He was the program co-chair of the 1991 International Machine Learning Workshop and has been a member of the program committee for numerous other conferences and workshops.
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SONIC Welcomes New Faculty Affiliate Michelle Shumate
We are very pleased to welcome Prof. Michelle Shumate as a faculty affiliate of the SONIC research group. Prof. Shumate, who is currently at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will join the faculty at Northwestern University in fall 2012.
Contractor, Foucault, and Young to attend Network Theory Workshop at USC
SONIC Lab members Lindsay Young, Brooke Foucault and Noshir Contractor will attend the 4th International Workshop on Network Theory jointly organized by the Annenberg Network of Networks (ANN) and SONIC Workshop on April 26-28 at the University of Southern California. The theme this year is on “Social Movements and Network Theory.”
Information and many excellent presentation videos from last year’s Network Theory Conference are available here:
http://sonic.northwestern.edu/news/events/webnetsciworkshop/
Check them out to discover what exciting science is motivating these three.