The iSchools are interested in the relationship between information, people and technology. More at http://www.ischools.org
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Tenure-o-meter? Filippo Menczer, from Indiana University is co-creator of the Tenurometer,
a cheekily named tool (still in beta phase) designed to measure
scholars' impact on their fields by counting how much they have
contributed to the literature and how frequently those articles have
been cited. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/
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Meet the meta-analytic tool designed to boil down a scholar's life's work to the size of a credit score.
iSchools Youth Community Informatics or Socio-Technical Systems workshops at #iConference: http://tinyurl.com/ydh8r2u
iSchools More on the DARPA challenge: http://tinyurl.com/yh4vr99
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On Saturday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency set out to learn how quickly people could use online social networks to solve a problem of national scope.
iSchools Almost forgot! Thanks to our command center team and the team out in the field!
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Congrats to MIT for winning the DARPA Challenge! The iSchools made a good showing--we had correctly identified 6 of the 10 balloons. Thanks to those who helped. Read more here https://networkchallenge.darpa.mil/defau
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Help the iSchools win this challenge: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/scienc
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The research agency of the Pentagon is offering a $40,000 prize for finding 10 balloons, a contest with a goal of learning about how people work together online.
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Saturday is D-Day--DARPA Challenge--help the iSchools! http://www.ischools.org/site/DARPA_Chall
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On DECEMBER 5, we will be asking the iSchools community, our friends and family to help us find 10 moored red balloons, located throughout the United States.
Have you seen a red balloon? Help the iSchools chair John Unsworth win the iSchools-DARPA challenge! The $40,000 prize will be used for an iSchools student travel fund.
Time:10:00AM Saturday, December 5th
Location:United States
iSchools iSchools is in Network Challenge, seeking 10, 8-foot red balloons across the U.S. on Dec. 5. http://tinyurl.com/yeoss5o. #ischoolchallenge
iSchools Thanks for all those who submitted papers to the iConference. You'll be notified of acceptance by Dec. 21.
iSchools A novel research idea: study the web, says Berners-Lee: http://tinyurl.com/yemo573
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The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, announced a new nonprofit group last week to promote the study of "Web science," arguing that his creation deserves its own specific research focus.
iSchools Geoffrey Fox, from Indiana's School of Computing and Informatics, named among "People to Watch": http://tinyurl.com/ya9kg7d
