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Announcements
For CCCSN and PNG please visit our events
archive.
| 2008 |
06/13-14/2008
The Harvard Networks in Political
Science Conference
(with pre-Conference Workshops June 11 & 12) |
| 2007 |
| 12/07/2007
Video now available
for: The
Eric M. Mindich Conference on Computational Social Science
04/10/2007
The Center for European Studies at Harvard - 4:15-6:00pm
"The Information
Society and the Democratic Process: A Take on the French Elections"
Busch
Hall, Cabot Room, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
07/15/2007 & 04/01/2007 CBS
60 Minutes
"NOT
SO PERFECT MATCH"
David Lazer and Fred Bieber's research on familial searching
was featured in the CBS News program 60
Minutes (Watch
video).
04/03/2007
Article about David Lazer's Kennedy School course "Building
Organizational Social Capital" in The Korea Times, "Organic
Leadership Via Networking."
02/26/2007
David Lazer quoted in, "Feds
welcome expanded DNA tests" Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
01/04/2007
David Lazer quoted in, "Many
DNA matches aren't acted on" USA Today.
01/27/2007
David Lazer quoted in "Proposed
S.C. law would require DNA samples of anyone arrested"
Augusta Chroniclel. |
| 2006 |
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08/16/2006
Alexander Schellong: Executive Education Workshop Introduction
to Citizen Relationship Management for Mexican public
administration executives (CIOs) at ITESEM
(Tec de Monterrey)
07/28/2006
This figure by David Lazer/ Ines Mergel/ Allan Friedman plots
the citation
patterns of social network papers published in 2005 in
the American Journal of Sociology.
06/06/2006
Ines Mergel presented "Research
on Social Networks": Swiss scientists presentation with
special guest, State Secretary for Economic Affairs, Jean-Daniel
Gerber , at the Swiss
Consulate
05/24/2006
Ines Mergel/ David
Lazer: Tutorial
on Application of Social Network Analysis in Digital Government
Research dg.O 2006, San Diego (Program, Handouts, Presentations)
05/11/2006
Frederick Bieber, David Lazer and Charles Brenner Science
paper on "Finding Criminals Through DNA of Their Relatives"
appears on Harvard
University Gazette / CNN.COM / MSNBC
/ ABC News / Boston
Globe / New
York Times / Washington
Post / Chicago Tribune / The
Seattle Times / LA Times / FoxNews / Forbes / USAToday
/ Pravda
/ Canada.com / SF
Chronicle / Heise.de
/ Phsyorg.com
/ Officer
/ BBC
News / NPR
05/17/2006
PNG/NCDG: -
PDF - Discuss
"Citizen Relationship Management: the Rocky Road..."
on our blog
"Citizen
Relationship Management: the Rocky Road from Transactions
to Empowerment ", Stephen
F. King, Leeds University Business School, University
of Leeds, UK
Bell
Hall, Noon – 1:30 p.m.
02/10/2006
David Lazer on "The
Parable of the Hare and the Tortoise: Small Worlds, Diversity,
and System Performance" at UMass
Amherst INFORMS Seminar Series schedule
01/25/2006
"The
internet improves Americans’ capacity to maintain their
social networks and they gain a big payoff when they use the
internet to activate those networks to solicit help."
new report by the Pew
Internet & American Life Project. PNG Blogger and
former NCDG Fellow Jeff
Boase co-authored this study.
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| 2005 |
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12/05/2005
PNG/Governance of Information
seminar series:
"Software codes or codes of conduct? - The role of new
intermediaries and how to limit their gaining predominant
influence on shaping public opinion ", Dr.
Wolfgang Schulz, Executive Director, Hans-Bredow Institute
for Media Research at the University of Hamburg, Germany
December 5, 2005, Bell
Hall, Noon – 1:30 p.m.
10/27/2005
David Lazer on "Fears
over transplant DNA mix-ups" BBC News
10/25/2005
KSG Working Paper (#RWP05-058): "The
Parable of the Hare and the Tortoise: Small Worlds, Diversity,
and System Performance", by David
Lazer and Allan Friedman
9/29//2005
David Lazer on
issues of "Expanding
DNA databases".
September 29, 2005, on WAMU 88.5 FM radio (American University
Radio). |
9/16/2005
Public Forum "DNA Fingerprinting & Civil Liberties".
Friday, September 16th, 2005, 12:00-3:00 p.m. |
6/10/2005
Congressional Briefing "Six
Degrees of Separation: Using Social Network Research to Informa
Public Health and National Security" - Link to the
transcript as PDF. |
06/08/2005
"Applications
of Social Network Analysis 2005" 2nd Social Network
Conference Call
for Papers, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 20/21 October
2005 |
06/07/2005
David Lazer on DNA and Familial Search (USA
Today: Suspects get snared by a relative's DNA) |
06/01/2005
The National Center for Digital Government will be moving with
its director Professor Jane Fountain to UMass (Amherst) - the
successor program of the NCDG, The Program on Networked Governance
is announced to start its research activities at the Kennedy
School of Government in June 2005. |
05/30/2005
Starting in June 2006, The National Center for Digital Government,
co-directed by Jane Fountain and David Lazer will be moved to
UMass, Amherst. |
05/15/2005
Tutorial: Application
of Social Network Analysis in Digital Government Research (Program,
Handouts, Presentations), dg.O2005 , Atlanta, 2-5pm |
05/02/2005
Bell Hall, Noon–2:00 p.m. (Live videoconference with the
University of Amsterdam)
Stanley
Wasserman, Professor of Sociology, Psychology and Statistics,
Indiana University
Title: Social Networks and the Business Enterprise |
04/13/2005
Swiss
Consulate, 420 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, Noon–1:30
p.m.
John
Holland, University of Michigan
Title: A Model of Language Acquisition and Evolution [abstract]
(co-sponsored with NCDG)
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03/14/2005
Bell Hall, Noon – 1:30 p.m.
Pamela
J. Hinds, Stanford University
Title: Dynamics in Internationally Distributed Teams
(co-sponsored with NCDG)
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02/14/2005
CBRSS, Noon – 1:30 p.m.
Michael
Macy, Professor of Sociology, Cornell University
Title: The Emperor's Dilemma: Popular Enforcement of Unpopular
Norms |
02/07/2005
Bell Hall, Noon – 1:30 p.m.
James
S. Fishkin, Stanford University
Comment by Jane
Mansbridge, Harvard University
Title: Consulting the Public Thoughtfully: Online and Face to
Face Deliberative Democracy (co-sponsored with NCDG) |
01/20/2005
Op-Ed by David Lazer and Frederick Bieber, "Shaking
the Family Tree", regarding the DNA sweeps in Truro,
MA. |
01/12/2005
Swiss
Consulate: 420 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, Noon
Reception and talk (videocast) by Duncan
Watts, Columbia University - Comment by Stephen
Borgatti, Boston College
Title: Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age [abstract]
Click here to see the streaming
video of this seminar. (co-sponsored with NCDG)
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| 2004 |
12/06/2004
Bell Hall, Noon - 1:30 pm
Andrea
Hollingshead, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Title: Strategic information sharing in computer-mediated groups.
(co-sponsored with NCDG
) |
11/30/2004
In light of the recent passage of Proposition 69, David Lazer
discusses the question, "Could
Voter-Approved DNA Database Lead to Family Profiling?"
on California radio KQED's The California Report. Listen
here. November 30, 2004. |
11/22/2004
CBRSS, Noon - 1:30 pm
David
Gibson, Harvard University
Title: All the News that Fits to Print: Competition and Dominance
on the New York Times Front Page
[abstract]
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11/01/2004
Bell Hall, Noon - 1:30 pm
Siobhan
O'Mahony, Harvard Business School
Title: Managing the Boundaries of an Open Project
(co-sponsored with NCDG
) |
10/25/2004
CBRSS, Noon – 1:30 pm
Jeff Johnson, East Carolina University
Title: Network Evolution, Emergent Role Properties, and Group
Outcomes: Cross-Cultural Research on Group Dynamics in Antarctica
(For papers on related topics by Johnson click
here) |
10/23/2004
David Lazer and Frederick Bieber article
in the New
Scientist October 23, 2004, on whether a person's DNA should
be used by the law to carry out surveillance on their family. |
09/23/2004
Bell Hall, Noon - 1:30 pm
Cass
Sunstein, Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor
of Jurisprudence, University of Chicago Law School
Title: Group
Judgments: Deliberation, Statistical Means, and Information
Markets,
(co-sponsored with RPP
and CCCSN) |
03/28
- 03/29/2004
NCDG Panel at IEEE workshop: Engineering
Governance: Design, Public Value, and E-government.
Web Media Diversity Resource Page: An essay and links on
power laws, the Web and media concentration. |
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