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The theme project aims to advance the social sciences at Cornell by tapping the expertise, tools, and skills of network analysts across the university, from computer scientists archiving the Web to social psychologists studying adolescent behavior.
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Information Science brings together faculty, students and researchers who share an interest in combining computer science with the social sciences of how people and society interact with information. Arts & Sciences and the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences offer undergraduate majors in Information Science. Engineering students can take the major in Information Science, Systems, and Technology (ISST).Information Science is a program of the Faculty of Computing and Information Science.
Claire Cardie was elected a Councilor of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) by the general membership for a term lasting through 2011. The Executive Council is responsible for managing the activities of the AAAI, an organization with more than 6000 members. (July, 2008) Jon Kleinberg was a keynote speaker at the ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (Hypertext 2008) in Pittsburgh. He spoke on "Link Structures, Information Flow, and Social Processes". (July, 2008) Cornell Library names Dean Krafft as chief technology strategist. Dean Krafft is no stranger to Information Technology as his previous experience as Director of Information Technology for Computing and Information Science and as PI for the Cornell Core Integration team of the National Science Digital Library. (July, 2008) Jon Kleinberg was an invited plenary speaker at the 2008 annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in San Diego. His talk was entitled, "The Geography of Social and Information Networks". (July, 2008) Information Science major, Alex Ainslie was recently awarded the Cornell Presidential Research Scholar for 2008. We are also proud of Jenna Holloway another Information Science major who received her merit research scholarship last year to support human computer interaction research in the areas of mobile computing and affective visualizations. Both are currently working with the HCI lab at 301 College Avenue under the direction of Professor Geri Gay. (June, 2008) The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) announced the grants awarded through the Health Games Research national program. These grants will enable research teams to support the development and use of digital interactive games to improve players' health behaviors and outcomes. Cornell University, Department of Communication (Ithaca , N.Y.) receives $165,000 grant for their Mindless Eating Challenge. A mobile phone-based game designed to encourage healthier eating habits. The game is built to serve as a platform for studying mechanisms of mobile persuasion in the context of improving health and well-being. (May, 2008)
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