Social Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center

The ARL Social Cognitive Network Academic Research Center (SCNARC) has been created and funded as a part of the US Army Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance together with three other centers focusing on different kind of networks. The funding of SCNARC comes predominantly from the US Army and the Army Research Laboratory plays the key role in guiding the research directions of NS CTA. The principal member of the Center is Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute while the remaining members are CUNY, IBM TJ Watson Research Laboratory, and Northeastern University. The Center includes also collaborators from the Army Research Laboratory, Indiana University, University of Maryland, MIT, Northwestern University, University of Notre Dame and NYU. The Center will collaborate closely with other centers of the Network Science CTA.

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SCNARC Researchers Actively Participating in the Organization of NetSci2012

Mar. 21, 2012: SCNARC researchers are actively participating in the organization of the upcoming NetSci2012 Conference in Evanston. Illinois.  Dr. Albert-Laszlo Barabasi and Dr. Brian Uzzi are members of the Organizing Committee, and Dr. Gyorgy Korniss and Dr. Boleslaw Szymanski are the co-Chairs of the Program Committee. More information about the conference is available here. (more)

Mar. 20, 2012:
Presentations at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January 2012 given by SCNARC members Dr. Albert-Laszlo Barabasi and Dr. Boleslaw Szymanski were discussed in a recent article in ARL News. The full ARL article can be read here.
Mar. 16, 2012:
Dr. Pentland's team at MIT won 2 out of 7 categories at South by Southwest for best real-world systems in the categories of News (social context in information diffusion) and in Health (continuous population monitoring.) South by Southwest is currently the world's leading place for...
Jan. 18, 2012:
The research on tipping points in social networks done in task S2.2 under Korniss, Szymanski, and Lim continues to attract attention from the media.  Forbe's online issue features an article titled "The Winning Attitude Tipping Point" by Holly Green.  This article shows the...
Jan. 17, 2012:
Members of SCNARC Laszlo Barabasi and Boleslaw Szymanski, together with Scott Page from University of Michigan, will present at the invited seminar on Human Dynamics at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 26th, 2012. In addition, Laszlo Barabasi, Alex Pentland,...