IEEE approved a new Transactions on Network Science and Engineering to be published starting in 2014. SCNARC Director, Prof. Boleslaw Szymanski and the ARL Lead for IRC, Dr. Ananthram Swami have been elected to the Steering Committee of the journal.
March 19, 2013
Atelier, a French website devoted to informing a broad audience on technological innovations important for industries, published an article about the SCNARC community detection algorithm authored by Jierui Xie and Boleslaw Szymanski. The original site in French can be found here, and it's edited Google translation in English here.
February 28, 2013
Prof. Boleslaw Szymanski, the Director of the Social Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center at RPI, is an invited speaker at the 4th Workshop on Complex Networks in Berlin, Germany. His talk titled "Impact of Social Networks on Human Mobility and Consensus" will be presented on March 15, 2013. The abstract of this talk is available here.
February 25, 2013
The American Association for the Advancement for Science session with SCNARC speakers was featured in The Economist article that discusses the impact of this research on social sciences. The article is available here.
February 20, 2013
SCNARC members presented at the American Association for Advancement of Science (publisher of Science Magazine) Annual Meeting on the Beauty and Benefits of Science. One of the invited symposiums, titled: "Predictability: From Physical to Data Sciences" was organized by Prof. Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, and two of the six invited speakers are also member of SCNARC. Dr. Chaoming Song...
November 12, 2012
Dr. Jim Hendler, head of the Department of Computer Science and senior constellation professor in the Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been honored with an inaugural Strata Data Innovation Award 2012. The award is given to individuals who have made significant innovations in the data field.
More information can be found in the RPI press...
November 05, 2012
Paper by SCNARC graduate student Tommy Ngyuen and Center Director Boleslaw Szymanski titled "Using Location-Based Social Networks to Validate Human Mobility and Relationship Models" received the Best Paper Award at 2012 Workshop on Social Network Analysis and Applications at the International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis in Istanbul, Turkey in August 2012....
