Virginia Tech Talk: Petascale Level Network Analysis
“Conducting social network analysis at the petascale level: Challenges and Opportunities” was the title of Professor Noshir Contractor’s Presentation for Virginia Tech’s Annual Workshop on Network Science. The presentation was June 2nd in Blacksburg, VA.
Noshir Contractor Presents at “Profiting from the New Web”
Professor Noshir Contractor presented at “Profiting from the New Web,” May 23, 2011. The event was hosted at the Royal Society in London. Professor Contractor was a speaker on the panel “Is every company a media company?”
View video from the conference featuring Professor Contractor here: http://www.littlefoxcommunications.com/webscience_trust/.
SONIC Lab member meets a Supreme Court justice
SONIC undergraduate researcher Curie Chang recently visited the land’s highest court as a part of her Supreme Court class (SocPol 351). The class is application-based, where 9 students are chosen every year to study the behind-scenes process of the court, culminating up to the visit to observe the court in person. At Washington D.C., the class was given a special tour around the supreme court, sat in on the oral argument for McNeill v. U.S., and were fortunate enough to have a Q & A session with Justice Sonia Sotomayor. The nine students sat across from Justice Sotomayor and were able to ask questions they had prepared in advance.
Feature story on Northwestern University website: http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2011/05/students-visit-supreme-court.html
Noshir Contractor Presents Keynote at Rutgers University Conference
Professor Noshir Contractor will present a keynote lecture entitled “Social and Knowledge Network-Building to Advance Global Health Decision-Making” at Rutgers University’s “Advancing Global Health Decision-Making” conference. The conference will be held May 20-21, 2011 and marks the launch of a new initiative on health decision- making by EABIS, Rutgers Universiy, and Johnson & Johnson.
The conference website can be found at: http://www.eabis.org/projects/project-detail-view.html?uid=20.
Noshir Contractor Presents Keynote at VOSS Conference
SONIC director, Noshir Contractor, was the keynote presenter at VOSS “Toward a Science of Virtual Organizations” invitational workshop. The workshop was hosted by the University of Central Florida and National Science Foundation in Orlando, Florida, May 16-17, 2011.
For more information regarding the workshop please visit: https://sites.google.com/site/ucfdelta/voss2011.
The perils of corporate social networks
Noshir Contractor was quoted in a recent article published in Bloomberg Businessweek, discussing some of the issues in companies’ internal social networks:
Some sociologists warn that with so many people making gaffes on Twitter and Facebook, companies should prepare for similar behavior on internal social networks. “Because this started out in the social sphere before the corporate sphere, people will bring the same cavalier attitude,” says Noshir Contractor, a professor of behavioral sciences at Northwestern University. “When people locate something in their mind as being informal, they get in trouble.” That could create problems for employees who are too open on services like Yammer and Chatter, a rival product sold by Salesforce.com. “When you’re considered for a promotion … anything you said on Yammer will be used in some cases to determine if you’re qualified,” Contractor says.
Wikipedia Breaking News Picked up by Forbes
The visualization we featured about the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami was featured by a Georgia Tech professor Amy Bruckman at the MIT Media Lab’s “Sandbox Summit” and subsequently picked up by David Ewalt at Forbes magazine in a blog post “Playing Well With Others“.
Multidimensional and multi-level network theory
Prof. Noshir Contractor presented a talk at the Spatial Simulations for Social Sciences conference, hosted by the Université of Lausanne titled, “Multidimensional and multi-level network theory.”
You can view the entire video here.
ACM Article “Web Science meets Network Science”
Communications of the ACM, May 2011, features an article on the “Web Science meets Network Science” workshop co-hosted by SONIC at Northwestern University. Read the article at http://bit.ly/flfp2C.
Noshir Contractor Presents at University of Missouri
SONIC director, Noshir Contractor, and Professor Stanley Wasserman, of Indiana University, present a special panel and discussion of social network analysis and application at University of Missouri.
The discussion centers on collaborative research and its organization, and will be held Wednesday, April 27, 1-3 p.m. in 572 Bond Life Sciences Center, at University of Missouri.