Project by Anup Sawant, Harshad Gado, and Noshir Contractor titled “VIVO team builder based on linked open data conforming to the VIVO ontology” was presented at the 5th Annual International Science of Team Science (SciTS) Conference in Austin, TX on August 7, 2014
Paper by Alina Lungeanu, Sophia Sullivan, and Noshir Contractor titled “Compositional, relational and ecosystem influences on team assembly in emerging scientific fields” was presented at the 5th Annual International Science of Team Science (SciTS) Conference in Austin, TX on August 7, 2014
Paper by Alina Lungeanu, Sophia Sullivan, and Noshir Contractor titled “Compositional, relational and ecosystem influences on team assembly in emerging scientific fields” was presented at the 5th Annual International Science of Team Science (SciTS) Conference in Austin, TX on August 7, 2014
http://www.scienceofteamscience.org/conference-schedule
Noshir Contractor participated on a panel titled “Toward a Network Science of Digital Data in Organizations” at the annual Academy of Management convention in Philadelphia on August 4th, 2014
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Lindsay Young successfully defended her dissertation proposal titled Third Sector Organizational Field-building in a Digital World: Hyperlinks as Mechanisms of Institutionalized Collaboration
Lindsay Young successfully defended her dissertation proposal titled “Third Sector Organizational Field-building in a Digital World: Hyperlinks as Mechanisms of Institutionalized Collaboration” on Tuesday, July 15, 2014. She will be starting as a post-doctoral scholar at the Chicago Center for HIV Elimination within the University of Chicago Medicine on August 18, 2014. Best of luck!
SONIC welcomes visiting scholar Li Yu
Li Yu is a visiting scholar from the School of Information, Renmin University of China. He is visiting SONIC to improve his research ability and enlarge his knowledge in social and knowledge networks through visiting and exchanging. He is joining us from July 31, 2014 to July 30th, 2015. SONIC is looking forward to a productive year with Li.
SONIC is pleased to welcome visiting scholars Fabian Flöck and Dominic DiFranzo
SONIC currently hosts the two visitors Fabian Flöck and Dominic DiFranzo.
Fabian is a researcher at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, and is analyzing the editing dynamics of Wikipedia articles based on authorship and inter-editor relations. He will stay with the SONIC research group until August 14th.
Dominic is a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. He is working with our Virtual Worlds Environment group and assisting in developing a web observatory for Northwestern University. He will stay with SONIC until July 17th
LinkedIn Connected – Using Anticipatory Computing
For LinkedIn Members, their network and relationships are a rich source of insights and opportunity. In short, these relationships matter. Our members are also increasingly mobile – over 50% of them will use LinkedIn from a mobile device by the end of this year. Mobile devices enable us to better understand a member’s context, opening up some interesting ways for us to deliver LinkedIn’s value to them. This post focuses on the engineering behind LinkedIn Connected, our brand new iOS app that is replacing LinkedIn Contacts. LinkedIn Connected is designed to give members relevant, and timely, reasons to reach out and keep in touch with the people in their network. Connected also includes LinkedIn’s first anticipatory computing feature, and this post will discuss the platform we are building to enable more and more of these. http://engineering.linkedin.com/building-linkedin-connected
Internet of Things is driving both innovation and disruption: What You Should Know About Uber
Media outlets everywhere shouted news that the 3-year-old ride-sharing service Uber charted an eye-popping valuation of up to $18.2 billion, after closing its venture capital round that raised $1.2 billion. In fact, by Forbes’ numbers, Uber is now worth more than Avis and Hyatt combined. For those who have been sequestered with monks somewhere up in the Himalayas, here’s what’s behind all the fuss. With Uber, customers can send a text message on a mobile app through the service to reserve a car. Uber charges for the ride based on distance traveled, or time, or demand, or a combination of all three. Uber is also the latest case study of how the “Internet of Things” is driving both innovation and disruption, if you’ll excuse the pun. The IoT is a phenomenon that is both real and here today. Just ask Uber and their customers. It not only means better, more personalized service, it means billions of connected devices resulting in billions and billions of dollars. http://bit.ly/1m2sULF
Emotional Contagion via Facebook
SONIC alum Brian Keegan (Northeastern University) delivered a keynote at the Computational Approaches to Social Modeling (ChASM) workshop at Web Sci 2014 in Bloomington, IN on June 23rd
For more information and the book of Abstracts visit: http://www.chasm.ws/program.html