Network of Excellence in Internet Science

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Tracing Networks: Communicating Knowledge in Antiquity and the Digital Age

Our own Robin Dundar from @i_science spoke on the final panel: "In this conference, archaeologists and computer scientists present new approaches to understanding knowledge networks in the ancient world and present day. The analysis of networks is now recognized as an important tool for understanding social, economic and political relations as a means of communication in both past and present-day communities.

Gamification and teaching - Kevin Werbach

Kevin is the author of "Digital Tornado: The Internet and telecoms policy" (FCC, 1997), the groundbreaking study of how limited regulation helped the Internet develop. He now has taught 2 MOOC courses on gamification (Jnternet science affecting business strategy as well as society) and these slides explain how: http://www.slideshare.net/kwerb/teaching-gamification?utm_source=slidesh...

Noam Chomsky on Where Artificial Intelligence Went Wrong

 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

Being Human in the Information Age: Prof. Steve Fuller (Warwick)

The hypothesis of the University of Warwick’s Being Human Research Network notes that, “Human life is increasingly driven and mediated by technology and technological change with profound implications for human identity and behaviour.” Indeed, the way in which we express ‘what it means to be human’ occurs in close relationship to the technology of our age. As actors in this phenomenon we find ourselves constantly redefining who we are through the way in which we both use and understand the metaphors associated with latest technological advancements.

EINS meeting in INFSO newsletter

 Weekly Issue - 5 April 2012 Latest News  EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT Network of Excellence in Internet Science - Plenary Meeting <http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/redirection.cfm?item_id=7964&utm_campaign=isp&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsroom&utm_content=weekly> 10 April 2012 - 11 April 2012 Brussels, Belgium The objective of the Network of Excellence (NoE) is to allow an op