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Prof. Boleslaw K. Szymanski's findings are discussed in October 6th AAAS Science Magazine

Oct. 12, 2017: Chris Tachibana in a commentary titled "The scientific swerve: Changing your research focus" Science, October 6, 2017, discuccses two works of Prof. Boleslaw K. Szymanski on evolution of scientific careers. The first article titled "Quantifying patterns of research-interest evolution," by Tao Jia, Dashun Wang, and Boleslaw K. (more)

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Mar 06, 2018
The research of Heng Ji and Boleslaw Szymanski of NEST Center together with colleagues from ARL, Notre Dame and UIUC creates foundation for social sensing as a scientific discipline
Feb 25, 2018
A joint DARPA grant for the UIUC and the NEST Center researchers discussed in the ICS@Illionis News
Feb 06, 2018
A paper entitled "Fast and accurate detection of spread source in large complex networks" by Robert Paluch, Xiaoyan Lu, Krzysztof Suchecki, Bolesław K. Szymański, & Janusz A. Hołyst was published by Scientific Reports.
Feb 03, 2018
The paper entitled "The Age of Social Sensing," Dong Wang, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Tarek Abdelzaher, Heng Ji, and Lance Kaplan has been accepted for publication by IEEE Computer.
Jan 30, 2018
Prof. Boleslaw Szymanski presented a lecture "Failures, Dynamics, Evolution and Control of the Global Risk Network" at the Network Science Institute in Boston.
Dec 08, 2017
A paper on The Investigation of Social Media Data Thresholds for Opinion Formation Asher, D., Caylor, J., Mittrick, M., Richardson, J., Heilman E., Bowman, E, Korniss, G., Szymanski, B. was published in Proc. ICCRTS 2017.
Dec 08, 2017
A paper on Multilayer MANET Routing with Social-Cognitive Learning co-authored by B. Szymanski has been published in Milcom 2017. Baltimore, MD, October 23-25, 2017.
Dec 08, 2017
A paper on "Evolution of the Global Risk Network Mean-Field Stability Point," by X. Niu, A. Mousawi, N. Derzsy, X. Lin, G. Korniss and B.K. Szymanski has been published in Proc. 6th Int. Conf. Complex Networks Lyon, France Nov 29-Dec 1, 2017.
Dec 08, 2017
A paper on Building Client’s Risk Profile Based on Call Detail Records by Z. Herga, C. Doyle, S. Dipple, C. Nasman, G. Korniss, B.K. Szymanski, J. Brank, J. Rupnik, and D. Mladenic has been published in Proc SiKDD, Oct. 8, 2017.
Dec 08, 2017
Joint Colloquium: The NeST Center and Computer Science on Finding Sources in Spreading Processes was given by Prof. Krzysztof Suchecki of Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, on Nov 14, 2017.