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On July 30, Dr. Boleslaw Szymanski was a panelist at ICCCN 2018 panel on Research Challenges on Networks in Social Spaces

Aug. 03, 2018: On July 30, Center Director, Dr. Boleslaw Szymanski was a member of the panel moderated by Professor Mani Srivatsa of UCLA at the 27th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2018) in Hangzhou,China. The panel focused on Research Challenges on Networks in Social Spaces. (more)

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Feb 17, 2019
A paper titled "Asymptotic resolution bounds of generalized modularity and statistically significant community detection," by Xiaoyan Lu and Boleslaw K. Szymanski has been posted on arxiv
Jan 11, 2019
A paper titled "Opinion Formation Threshold Estimates from Different Combinations of Social Media Data-Types," co-authored by Casey Doyle, G. Korniss, and Boleslaw K. Szymanski of NEST was published in Proc. HICSS 2019.
Jan 09, 2019
A paper titled "A Predictive Self-Configuring Simulator for Online Media" co-authored by NEST James Flamino and Boleslaw K. Szymanski was published in Proc. IEEE WSC 2018.
Dec 19, 2018
Prof. Shlomo Havlin presented a joint NEST Center and Computer Science colloquium on Cascading Failures and Recovery in Networks of Networks at RPI on December 13, 2018
Nov 07, 2018
Today, Prof. Boleslaw K. Szymanski presented a talk entitled "Finding Efficient Spreaders for Information Diffusion in Social Networks," at the Department of Computer Science a the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Oct 30, 2018
Prof. Petko Bogdanov presented a talk on "Treating time as a first-class citizen in dynamic graph mining" hosted by Boleslaw Szymanski at the joint colloquium of CS Department and NEST Center
Oct 27, 2018
A paper entitled "Entropy Measures of Human Communication Dynamics," by Marcin Kulisiewicz, Przemyslaw Kazienko, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, and Radoslaw Michalski was published by Scientific Reports, 8:15697. Oct., 2018.
Oct 25, 2018
Paper on "Integrative Analytics for Detecting and Disrupting Transnational Interdependent Criminal Smuggling, Money, and Money-Laundering Networks," co-authored by Thomas Sharkey and Boleslaw K. Szymanski got the best paper award at the HST'18 conference.
Oct 18, 2018
Boleslaw K. Szymanski participated an invitational workshop organized by Amazon on October 17 in Seattle titled “All Boats Rise? Social Capital, Promise and Peril” in a session titled “No One is an (I) Land.”
Oct 14, 2018
The paper on "Scalable Prediction of Global Online Media News Virality," Xiaoyan Lu, and Boleslaw K. Szymanski is now listed by GDELT Blog