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Understanding Epilepsy in Pediatric Tumors; New Therapeutic Target of Intractable Epilepsy Identified

19 September 2018

Pediatric brain tumors are characterized by frequent complications due to intractable epilepsy compa [...]

Using Donut-shaped Lithium Sulfide for Higher Performing Batteries

19 September 2018

(from left: Research Professor Fangmin Ye and Professor Hee-Tak Kim) A KAIST research team develop [...]

Engineered E. coli Using Formic Acid and CO2 As a C1-Refinery Platform Strain

18 September 2018

(Figure: Formic acid and CO2 assimilation pathways consisting of the reconstructed THF cycle and rev [...]

Effective Drug Delivery to Heart with Tannic Acid

18 September 2018

(Professor Haeshin Lee from the Department of Chemistry) Typical methods of drug delivery to the hea [...]

KAIST Perfectly Transfers Nanowires onto a Flexible Substrate

17 September 2018

(from left: PhD Min-Ho Seo and Professor Jun-Bo Yoon) Boasting excellent physical and chemical prope [...]

How Can Social Science Become More Solutions-Oriented?

14 September 2018

A conversation between researchers at Kellogg and Microsoft explores how behavioral science can best [...]

KAIST Reveals Mathematical Principle behind AI’s ‘Black Box’

12 September 2018

(from left: Professor Jong Chul Ye, PhD candidates Yoseob Han and Eunju Cha) A KAIST research team i [...]

KAIST First Reveals Principles behind Electron Heating in Weakly Ionized Collisional Plasmas

10 September 2018

(from left: Professor Wonho Choe and Research Professor Sanghoo Park) A KAIST research team succes [...]

Seniors’ usage of mobile social network sites

4 September 2018

Seniors’ usage of mobile social network sites: Applying theories of innovation diffusion and uses an [...]

Potential Drug to Cure Ciliopathies

30 August 2018

(from left: Professor Joon Kim and PhD candidate Yong Joon Kim) Ciliopathies are rare disorders invo [...]

Reference Extraction Made Easy

3 September 2018

Speaking at the Open Citation Workshop in Bologna, Dr. [...]

Award for Best Video at the International Eye Tracking Conference ETRA in Warsaw

13 August 2018

The contributors of the GazeMining project have been decorated with the Best Video Award at the 2018 [...]

Nine private things Amazon knows about you – which you might not have expected

19 July 2018

Vice Motherboard interviewed Prof. Staab about what Amazon could do with its Big Data about you. [...]

Invited Talk by Tjitze Rienstra at the Second Chinese Conference on Logic and Argumentation

12 June 2018

Tjitze Rienstra will give an invited talk On the relationship between argumentation networks and Bay [...]

GazeTheWeb project integrates multimodal browsing with gaze and voice input

11 June 2018

Human voice and eyes are the most natural sources that can provide input signals to facilitate hands [...]

Award Winning Eye-Controlled Web Browser "GazeTheWeb" as live demo at CEBIT 201

9 June 2018

Make the experience of surfing the internet with your eye movements. [...]

EVOWIPE Paper Received Reviewers' Favorite Recognition of the International DESIGN Conference

8 June 2018

In product development, considerable efforts can be saved by reusing existing product models. [...]

Tutorial on Implementing KR Approaches with Tweety at KR’18

30 May 2018

Matthias Thimm gives a tutorial on Implementing KR Approaches with Tweety at the 16th International [...]

DKB/KIK2018 - The 7th Workshop on Dynamics of Knowledge and Belief and the 6th Workshop KI & Kognition

24 May 2018

Information for real life AI applications is usually pervaded by uncertainty and subject to change, [...]

Deutsche Welle interviews Professor Staab about provenance information in Facebook

17 May 2018

Read [the whole interview (in German)] http://www.dw.com/de/staab-page-history-ein-sinnvoller-schrit [...]

Launch of the Scikit-learn initiative, a reference software library for machine learning

Inria is pleased to announce the launch of the scikit-learn initiative, a partnership with companies [...]

The startup Hikob bought by TagMaster

5 September 2018

The start-up Hikob, created in 2011 at Inria, has been bought by TagMaster, the leading manufacturer [...]

Improved cloud elasticity and cleaner data centres – a joint project launched by Inria and Scalair

31 August 2018

In September 2017, the CIRRUS team, made up of the Spirals project team from the Inria Lille - Nord [...]

PreciDIAB: paving the way to precision medicine for diabetics

27 August 2018

In June, the university hospital and research complex (IHU) projectPreciDIABwas selected for intervi [...]

Mastering Non-Functional Properties of Software: Energy, Time, Security

22 August 2018

A European consortium led by Inria and funded by the EU ICT H2020 program, TeamPlay aims at developi [...]

Quantum Leap in Ransomware Tracking

21 August 2018

Located at Inria research center in Rennes, Brittany, France, the High-Security Laboratory (LHS) is [...]

Improving Bitcoin... with forks

21 August 2018

Created 10 years ago, Bitcoin allows secure and anonymous payments without going through a bank. The [...]

Using the cloud to simulate epizootics

21 August 2018

Large-scale simulation can help in deciding on the right strategy for curbing animal epidemics. But [...]

Meeting with Marie Duflot and the love she divides between r research, teaching and scientific outreach

21 August 2018

Aged 41, Marie is a senior lecturer, researcher and scientific culture officerin the field of comput [...]

MFX, the new Inria Nancy centre team

20 August 2018

MFX (Matter from Graphics), is the name of the brand new team at the Inria Nancy research centre. It [...]

Hong Kong: East Asian Research Students Conference at Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

28 June 2018

Day 1 – The first day at CUHK was based around small group workshops to discuss our research and pre [...]

Serendipity, Calamity, Inclusivity and the Future of the Web: Thoughts on the Web Science Conference 2018

28 June 2018

PhD Symposium On an extraordinarily sunny Sunday (at least as judged by locals!), we started with t [...]

Talking about the ePrivacy regulation, or an alternative GDPR birthday party

28 June 2018

The 25th May was the birthday of GDPR – the European general data protection regulation came into fo [...]

Otherwise Engaged: Social Media From Vanity Metrics to Critical Analytics’

29 March 2018

Today’s WSI Distinguished lecture with Professor Richard Rogers focuses on the pervasive view of soc [...]

Wellcome Collection Talk with Tom Scott

7 February 2018

On the 5th February, I attended a thought-provoking talk entitled ‘Building a free and unrestricted [...]

The Terrarium Building Workshop

6 December 2017

One October afternoon I received an email to ‘Save the date’ for a Terrarium-building workshop. The [...]

Playwright Rory Mullarkey visits the Web Science Institute

22 November 2017

The collection of quotes taken from the discussion with playwright Rory Mullarkey, who visited WSI. [...]

Ben Williamson Seminar: Doing Educational Research in Web Science

17 November 2017

The moment the notification email went around advising that Dr Ben Williamson was going to give a ta [...]

Privitar: How to Protect Private Data

17 November 2017

Fresh from the weekend, and with memories of my lunch on Friday still in my mind, Monday led to anot [...]

CDT Students visit to NUS and Tshinghau University, China

3 November 2017

Wuxi After a 12 hour flight from London to Shanghai, and a terrifying two hour taxi ride, we finally [...]

WebSci ’17 Tutorial Note– Analyzing Geolocated Data with Twitter

22 September 2017

Speaker: Prof. Bruno Gonçalves, New York University (http://www.bgoncalves.com/) Schedule 09:00 -10: [...]

Get Off Your Twitter

25 August 2017

Web Science, more so than many other disciplines of Computer Science, has a special focus on its hum [...]

WebSci ’17

14 August 2017

The Web Science Conference was hosted by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute this year. The Tetherless [...]

Do we have a magic flute for K-12 Web Science?

27 October 2015

In early July of 2015, Tetherless World Constellation (TWC) opened its door for four young men of th [...]

Historic launch of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data

1 October 2015

An information email in early September from Simon Hodson, the CODATA Executive Director, attracted [...]

Data and Semantics — Topics of Interest at ESIP 2015 Summer Meeting

27 July 2015

The ESIP 2015 Summer Meeting was held at Pacific Grove, CA in the week of July 14-17. Pacific Grove [...]

GYA, CODATA-ECDP and Open Science

8 June 2015

During May 25-29, 2015, the Global Young Academy (GYA) held the 5th International Conference for You [...]

DCO-DS participation at Research Data Alliance Plenary 5 meeting

30 April 2015

In early March I attended the Research Data Alliance Fifth Plenary and “Adoption Day” event to prese [...]

Another AGU and we all get wet from the rain in San Fran…

11 January 2015

The 2014 Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in the wet city of San Francisco has not yet fade [...]

American Geophysical Union Informatics

23 December 2014

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CNetS grad honored with 2018 University Distinguished Ph.D. Dissertation Award

9 July 2018

Onur Varol, a postdoctoral research associate at Northeastern University who earned his Ph.D. in Inf [...]

CNetS grad combats the spread of fake news with new mobile app

29 June 2018

The spread of fake news is no game, but to recent CNetS graduate Mihai Avram, a game just might be t [...]

3 new tools to study and counter online disinformation

17 May 2018

Researchers at CNetS, IUNI, and the Indiana University Observatory on Social Media have launched upg [...]

Postdoctoral Fellowship

14 May 2018

The Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research (cnets.indiana.edu) at Indiana University, Bloo [...]

Postdoctoral Fellowship: Critical processes in networks of networks

24 April 2018

The Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research (cnets.indiana.edu) at Indiana University, Bloo [...]

The science of fake news

8 March 2018

The indictment of 13 Russians in the operation of a “troll farm” that spread false information relat [...]

CNetS in Science

8 March 2018

The manifesto of science of science has been published in Science magazine. This is a team effort in [...]

Study finds online interest in sex rises at Christmas, with more births nine months later

21 December 2017

First global analysis of human birth-rate cycles reveals that post-holiday ‘baby boom’ persists acro [...]

OSoMe for all IU researchers

17 November 2017

Thanks to support from the Indiana University Network Science Institute (IUNI) and Digital Science C [...]

DARPA grant to study information spread

24 October 2017

Fil Menczer, professor of computer science and informatics at the School of Informatics, Computing, [...]

Understanding Epilepsy in Pediatric Tumors; New Therapeutic Target of Intractable Epilepsy Identified

19 September 2018

Pediatric brain tumors are characterized by frequent complications due to intractable epilepsy compa [...]

Using Donut-shaped Lithium Sulfide for Higher Performing Batteries

19 September 2018

(from left: Research Professor Fangmin Ye and Professor Hee-Tak Kim) A KAIST research team develop [...]

Engineered E. coli Using Formic Acid and CO2 As a C1-Refinery Platform Strain

18 September 2018

(Figure: Formic acid and CO2 assimilation pathways consisting of the reconstructed THF cycle and rev [...]

Effective Drug Delivery to Heart with Tannic Acid

18 September 2018

(Professor Haeshin Lee from the Department of Chemistry) Typical methods of drug delivery to the hea [...]

KAIST Perfectly Transfers Nanowires onto a Flexible Substrate

17 September 2018

(from left: PhD Min-Ho Seo and Professor Jun-Bo Yoon) Boasting excellent physical and chemical prope [...]

KAIST Reveals Mathematical Principle behind AI’s ‘Black Box’

12 September 2018

(from left: Professor Jong Chul Ye, PhD candidates Yoseob Han and Eunju Cha) A KAIST research team i [...]

KAIST First Reveals Principles behind Electron Heating in Weakly Ionized Collisional Plasmas

10 September 2018

(from left: Professor Wonho Choe and Research Professor Sanghoo Park) A KAIST research team succes [...]

Potential Drug to Cure Ciliopathies

30 August 2018

(from left: Professor Joon Kim and PhD candidate Yong Joon Kim) Ciliopathies are rare disorders invo [...]

Rh Ensemble Catalyst for Effective Automobile Exhaust Treatment

29 August 2018

(from left: Professor Hyunjoo Lee and PhD candidate Hojin Jeong) A KAIST research team has developed [...]

Metabolic Engineering of E. coli for the Secretory Production of Free Haem

28 August 2018

Researchers of KAIST have defined a novel strategy for the secretory production of free haem using e [...]

How Can Social Science Become More Solutions-Oriented?

14 September 2018

A conversation between researchers at Kellogg and Microsoft explores how behavioral science can best [...]

Seniors’ usage of mobile social network sites

4 September 2018

Seniors’ usage of mobile social network sites: Applying theories of innovation diffusion and uses an [...]

SONIC Lab presented at Academy of Management 2018

22 August 2018

On August 11-14, Professor Noshir Contractor and SONIC Alumna Jacqueline Ng presented at the 2018 Ac [...]

IIT Madras to collaborate with Northwestern University for research in data science

17 August 2018

From the Economic Times: Sreeradha Basu Aug 14, 2018, 03.39 PM IST IIT Madras has tied up with North [...]

Aaron M. Schecter receives the J. Richard Hackman Award at INGRoup 2018

3 August 2018

Aaron M. Schecter, SONIC alumnus and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Management Science, receive [...]

Research Lab Manager Position

3 August 2018

The SONIC research group and ATLAS laboratory at Northwestern University invite applications for a r [...]

SONIC Lab presented at INGRoup 2018

24 July 2018

On July 19-21, Professor Noshir Contractor, the SONIC doctoral students Diego Gómez-Zará and Brennan [...]

Koustav Rudra attended SIGIR 2018 Conference

17 July 2018

Koustav Rudra presented his work on “Identifying Sub-events and Summarizing Disaster-Related Informa [...]

Kyosuke Tanaka and Diego Gómez-Zará attend SICSS Chicago 2018

20 June 2018

The SONIC Ph.D. students, Kyouske Tanaka and Diego Gómez-Zará, participated at the Summer Institute [...]

Noshir Contractor’s paper accepted at ASONAM 2018

19 June 2018

Noshir Contractor co-authored a paper titled, “Generative Modeling of Human Behavior and Social Inte [...]

Oxford Internet Institute Newsletter, Hilary 2018

19 March 2018

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Join Us! Book Launch of 'Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data'

27 February 2018

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New MSc/DPhil in Social Data Science

27 July 2017

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OII Newsletter -- new Digital Ethics Lab; political propaganda; wellbeing; conferences

25 May 2017

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OII Newsletter: Gig work, digital divides, political bots

28 March 2017

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Oxford Internet Institute Newsletter: Merry Christmas from the OII!

15 December 2016

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The Oxford Internet Institute Newsletter

27 October 2016

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OII News [2016.08.30]: New building, online labour, ATI, Internet Awards, graduate study, webcasts, press, events

30 August 2016

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OII Newsletter: IoT, data ethics, ATI, Wikipedia

22 February 2016

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We love data! Open data, citizen science, and crowds

9 December 2015

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Northern Frontier In conversation with Prof. Balaraman Ravindran Grand Challenges India, PMU-BIRAC...

21 August 2018

IT Madras has tied up with Northwestern University, US, for carrying out broad-based research collab [...]