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
Barend Mons to present in the Sonic Speaker Series
SONIC lab is proud to welcome Barend Mons, who will present a talk on Tuesday, Dec 4, 2012 (10:30-11:45) in Francis Searle Building Room 1.483 on Northwestern’s Evanston Campus. All are welcome to attend.
About the talk
Barend will talk about the role of semantic technologies, (under)standards and the nanopublication ecosystem in particular. He will challenge several established views in the field of the semantic web, scholarly communication, intellectual networking, science metrics, peer review and ‘data publishing’ with an emphasis on the barriers to break down in order to allow effective data exposure, sharing and integration in the Big Data era. The context of his talk will be the need for eScience approaches to ‘in silico’ knowledge discovery.
About Barend Mons
Barend Mons (born The Hague, The Netherlands in 1957, PhD in 1986 at Leiden University, in The Netherlands) is a molecular biologist who turned to bioinformatics in 2000 after a decade of research on the genetic differentiation of malaria parasites, and five years of science management at the Research Directorate of the European Commission and the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research. He is the initiator of WikiProfessional and an inventor of the Knowlet technology. In 2008 he was one of the driving forces behind the Concept Web Alliance, in close collaboration with (a.o.) Jan Velterop, Mark Musen, Amos Bairoch. In 2000 he founded Collexis and in 2005, he co-founded Knewco, Inc.
Since 2002 he has been Associate Professor in Biosemantics at the Department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus Medical Centre, University of Rotterdam and (since 2005) at the Department of Human Genetics at the Leiden University Medical Centre, both in The Netherlands. Mons published over 70 peer reviewed articles, holds three patents in semantic technology and is a regular keynote speaker at international conferences.
As of 2010 he is a Scientific Director of the Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre (NBIC), whilst retaining his academic affiliations with Leiden University Medical Centre and Erasmus Medical Centre. In 2012 Barend has been appointed as professor in Biosemantics at the Leiden University Medical Center. The chair is established by the Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre (NBIC).
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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.
For more details, see here.
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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The Election’s Biggest Winner: Arithmetic – Forbes
Inside the Secret World of the Data Crunchers Who Helped Obama Win
…the campaign [created] a single massive system that could merge the information collected from pollsters, fundraisers, field workers and consumer databases as well as social-media and mobile contacts with the main Democratic voter files in the swing states. The new megafile didn’t just tell the campaign how to find voters and get their attention; it also allowed the number crunchers to run tests predicting which types of people would be persuaded by certain kinds of appeals. Read more
Join the Northwestern University Ph.D. Program in Media, Technology and Society & the SONIC Research Group – Advancing the Science of Networks in Communities
Contractor delivered the dinner keynote at the “Advancing the Science of Multiteam Systems” meeting in Varenna, Italy on October 28th.
For more information, see here.