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Sune Lehmann
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Jukka-Pekka Onnela
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Nathan Eagle
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Ben Waber
(Technology, Social Computing) Ines Mergel
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Maria Binz-Scharf
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Sebastian Schorf
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Alexander Schellong
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22 April 2010

Final Call for Abstracts: High Throughput Humanities

A quick reminder that April 30th is the final chance to submit an abstract to the High Throughput Humanities Workshop that I'm organizing along with Riley Crane , Gourab Ghoshal, and Max Schich, at this years European Conference on Complex Systems in Lisbon this September (I wrote about this in more detail a couple of months ago).

We have an amazing Program Committee that includes:

Albert-László Barabási, CCNR Northeastern University, USA.
Guido Caldarelli, INFM-CNR Rome, Italy.
Gregory Crane, Tufts University, USA.
Lars Kai Hansen, Technical University of Denmark.
Bernardo Huberman, HP Laboratories, USA.
Martin Kemp, Trinity College, Oxford, UK.
Roger Malina, Leonardo/ISAST, France.
Franco Moretti, Stanford University, USA.
Didier Sornette, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Full details can be found at the workshop website http://hth.eccs2010.eu/. There's even a neat little introductory video (from our talk at Ignite Boston 7):



We hope you will submit an abstract!

Posted by Sune Lehmann at 3:52 PM

19 April 2010

Check out the website for Bursts...

My colleague and collaborator, Laszlo Barabasi, has a book that is about to come out, Bursts. A good read, by the way, but I am writing this entry to point to a fun game created for the book. Basically, this is a word scramble game, where each word in the book is scrambled and when you solve that word, you get points, and slowly reveal the book. It's rather addictive, actually...

Posted by David Lazer at 8:29 AM

14 April 2010

Call for Evaluations of Open Government Plans

The Whitehouse's Open Government team has posted the Open Government plans of all federal agencies and departments with a pre-evaluation scheme on their website and calls academics to adopt one of the plans, review it and submit evaluations. The goal is to provide agencies with feedback that will lead to improvement and revisions in future iterations and the implementation of the plans.

Beth Noveck, United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer and Director of the White House Open Government Initiative (OSTP), writes on the Whitehouse blog:

The plans are chock full of examples of concrete efforts -- not lip service -- to making open government happen in practice and creating genuine opportunity for meaningful and practical civic engagement. [...] So please dig in! Adopt a plan. Read it. And tell us how we can do things better. In the process, we hope to reinvigorate a shared sense of civic virtue born out of a common love for this democracy.

I am collecting the responses and feedback of interested academics and will provide the final product with correct attribution to each author in a white paper format to OSTP. As an example: I decided to go through all 29 plans and focus only on the collaboration parts. Others might want to adopt one plan and analyze the whole plan based on the agency's mission.

Please feel free to contact me by email to coordinate our efforts. The deadline for submissions to me is April 25, 2010.

Posted by Ines Mergel at 10:22 AM