Skip to main content
  • Home
  • About
  • Faculty Experts
  • For The Media
  • Videos
  • Topics
    • Alumni
    • Events
    • Faculty
    • Library
    • Research
    • Students
    • All Topics
  • Contact
  • Submit
Arts & Culture
  • All News
  • Arts & Culture
  • Business & Economy
  • Campus & Community
  • Health & Society
  • Media, Law & Policy
  • STEM
  • Veterans
  • |
  • Alumni
  • The Peel
  • Athletics
Sections
  • All News
  • Arts & Culture
  • Business & Economy
  • Campus & Community
  • Health & Society
  • Media, Law & Policy
  • STEM
  • Veterans
  • |
  • Alumni
  • The Peel
  • Athletics
  • Home
  • About
  • Faculty Experts
  • For The Media
  • Videos
  • Topics
    • Alumni
    • Events
    • Faculty
    • Library
    • Research
    • Students
    • All Topics
  • Contact
  • Submit
Arts & Culture

Big Data, Big Challenges

Tuesday, September 22, 2015, By Amy Manley
Share
College of Arts and SciencesEventsSyracuse Symposium

Syracuse SymposiumTM continues its “Networks” theme with a presentation by Noshir Contractor, an expert on the science of social communication networks.

Noshir Contractor

Noshir Contractor

Contractor will deliver the annual Kameshwar C. Wali Lecture in the Sciences and Humanities on Thursday, Sept. 24, at 4 p.m. in the Dr. Paul and Natalie Strasser Legacy Room, 220 Eggers Hall. Titled “Leveraging Computational Social Science to Address Grand Societal Challenges,” the event is free and open to the public. For more information, call the Humanities Center at 315-443-7192, or visit http://syracusehumanities.org.

The Wali Lecture is co-sponsored by the Department of Physics and the Humanities Center, both in the College of Arts and Sciences. Syracuse SymposiumTM is organized and presented annually by the Humanities Center.

Contractor is the Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University, where he is also director of the Science of Networks in Communities Research Group. Drawing on his ongoing study of networks, he will discuss how social scientists and social network scholars use big data to monitor, anticipate and design interventions that engage wider communities of practice to address complex social challenges.

A prolific teacher, scholar and author, Contractor has authored over 250 research papers focusing on communicating and organizing, and also two books: “Predicting Real World Behaviors from Virtual World Data” (Springer, 2014), which he co-edited, and “Theories of Communication Networks” (Oxford University Press, 2003), which he co-authored and was named Book of the Year by the Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association.

Contractor developed some of the first “virtual” college courses on emerging technologies in the workplace and has been lead developer of several major software projects. He earned a Ph.D. and M.A., both in communication, from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai (India).

 

  • Author

Amy Manley

  • Recent
  • COVID-19 Update: Get Vaccinated! | Submit Proof of Vaccination | Testing Center Hours
    Friday, April 9, 2021, By News Staff
  • Stephen Kuusisto Receives 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry
    Friday, April 9, 2021, By Ellen de Graffenreid
  • Please Complete the Faculty/Staff COVID-19 Vaccine Status Attestation Questionnaire
    Friday, April 9, 2021, By News Staff
  • Alumnus and Trustee Marshall M. Gelfand ’50 Remembered
    Friday, April 9, 2021, By News Staff
  • Get Vaccinated | Activities for the Weekend of April 8-11 | Cautious Optimism
    Thursday, April 8, 2021, By News Staff

More In Arts & Culture

Stephen Kuusisto Receives 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry

The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation has announced that Stephen Kuusisto, University Professor in the School of Education and director of interdisciplinary programs and outreach at the Burton Blatt Institute in the College of Law, has been awarded a 2021 Guggenheim…

Light Work Presents Meryl Meisler: ‘Best of Times, Worst of Times’

Light Work presents Meryl Meisler: “Best of Times, Worst of Times,” an exhibition of her photography of her life in and around New York City in the 1970s and 1980s.  Meisler’s exhibition will be on view in the Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery…

School of Architecture Mourns Loss of Professor J. François Gabriel

Former Syracuse University architecture Professor J. François Gabriel died March 26 at age 91. A native of France, Gabriel earned diplomas at the Collège des Arts Appliques in 1948 and École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 1965, where he developed…

Curating the Bigger Picture: Evan Starling-Davis Approaches Literacy from Multiple Entry Points

Evan Starling-Davis is a narrative artist, curator and producer. More precisely, he names himself a digital-age “griot”—a term used for traveling poets, musicians and storytellers who maintain a tradition of oral history derived from the African diaspora’s culture and history….

Urban Video Project Presents ‘Steffani Jemison: Figure 8’

For nearly a decade, Brooklyn-based artist Steffani Jemison has been deeply invested in examining the ways knowledge is constructed and legitimized. This interest stems from a fascination with frameworks of interpretation and narration (as well as critical theory), and vernacular…

Subscribe to SU Today

If you need help with your subscription, contact sunews@syr.edu.

Connect With Us

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Youtube
  • LinkedIn
Social Media Directory

For the Media

Find an Expert Follow @SyracuseUNews
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Youtube
  • LinkedIn
  • @SyracuseU
  • @SyracuseUNews
  • @SUCampus
  • Social Media Directory
  • Accessibility
  • Privacy
  • Campus Status
  • Syracuse.edu
© 2021 Syracuse University News. All Rights Reserved.