[Colloq] Hiring Talk: David Laser - Tuesday, Jan. 13, 1:30pm

Rachel Kalweit rachelb at ccs.neu.edu
Wed Jan 7 16:03:53 EST 2009


There will be a hiring talk on Tuesday, January 13 at 1:30pm in room 366 West Village H.

Speaker: 
David Laser
Associate Professor of Public Policy
Director, Program on Networked Governance
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University

Title: Life in the Network:  The Coming Age of Computational Social Science

Abstract:
An increasing fraction of human interactions are digitally captured.  
These digital breadcrumbs, combined with substantial computational  
power, create enormous opportunities for ground breaking science. This  
talk will discuss what some of the potential opportunities are for  
developing an improved understanding of collective human behavior, as  
well the potential barriers to the emergence of a "computational  
social science." In particular, the objective of this talk will be to  
spur discussion regarding how to bridge the gap between various  
methods for data mining and enhancing understanding of human behavior.

Host: Jay Alsam





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