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Invitation to participate - 1st International conference on Internet Science - Brussels, April 10-11, 2013

Submitted by tim.davies on Wed, 19/12/2012 - 21:01

The First International Conference on Internet Science will take place on the 10 and 11 April 2013 in Brussels, under the aegis of the European Commission, and organised by the EINS project, the FP7 European Network of Excellence in Internet Science (http://www.internet-science.eu). 

Best Presentation Award TRIP 2012

Submitted by oostveen on Sat, 15/12/2012 - 20:00
Samir Passi receiving his award from Dr. Ian Brown

Congratulations to Samir Passi from the Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) who won the Best Presentation Award for his talk ‘‘Slide to Unlock?’ – Mobile Convergence and Collapsing Contexts’ at the EINS workshop on Internet Trust, Reputation, Identity and Privacy (TRIP 2012).

International UDC Seminar 2013, Call for Papers

Submitted by tim.davies on Wed, 12/12/2012 - 17:08

Classification & Visualization: Interfaces to Knowledge
Date: 24-25 October 2013
Venue: The National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek), Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5, 2595 BE Den Haag, The Netherlands
Conference Website
Contact: seminar2013@udcc.org

World Social Science Forum 2013, Montreal

Submitted by tim.davies on Tue, 11/12/2012 - 15:38

The International Social Science Council's 2nd World Social Science Forum will take place on 13-15 October 2013 in Montreal, Canada. 

The theme of this conference is ‘social transformations and the digital age’. 
The Forum will include plenary presentation/discussion sessions, and parallel panel presentation/discussion sessions. The conference organisers welcome suggestions for alternative or hybrid forms of presentation that take advantage of digital technologies.

Sergey Gorinsky speaks to Madri+d about the EINS project

Submitted by tim.davies on Wed, 05/12/2012 - 11:16

The Institute IMDEA Networks has collaborated with the Spanish Foundation Madri+d on the release of an article, authored by Sergey Gorinsky, about the EINS project ‘Network of Excellence in Internet Science’. Madri+d is one of the main sites for the diffusion of scientific results amongst the general public in the Spanish speaking world and therefore a great channel through which to promote the EINS project. To read this article, please visit the Institute IMDEA Networks website.

JRA4 papers to be presented in Brussels at EuroCPR

Submitted by chris.marsden on Tue, 04/12/2012 - 17:23

Chris Marsden and Alison Powell have had paper abstracts accepted by the EuroCPR scientific committee, and will present on Internet science and policy on 22-23 March 2013 at EuroCPR: http://www.eurocpr.org/

'info' journal: special issue papers on future of Internet Governance

Submitted by chris.marsden on Sat, 24/11/2012 - 11:43

 Over the last ten years the policies for the future internet, be it around technical standards, competition dynamics, innovation, the role of intermediaries or the protection of public interest goals have been intensely discussed. There remains a manifest difference between the dynamics of technological change and the dynamics of proactive regulation.

Noam Chomsky on Where Artificial Intelligence Went Wrong

Submitted by chris.marsden on Sat, 24/11/2012 - 10:15

 As written today, the history of cognitive science is a story of the unequivocal triumph of an essentially Chomskyian approach over Skinner's behaviorist paradigm -- an achievement commonly referred to as the "cognitive revolution," though Chomsky himself rejects this term: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/noam-chomsky-on-wh...While this may be a relatively accurate depiction in cognitive science and psychology, behaviorist thinking is f

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