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Seminar: Janet Pierrehumbert
Professor of Linguistics, WCAS Northwestern University
Word Frequency and Predictability?
May 30, 2012 (Chambers Hall)

TEDxNorthwesternU
June 19, 2012

NetSci Conference
Bringing together leading researchers, practitioners, and teachers in network science
June 20-22, 2012

NICO COURSE LIST!

ANNOUNCING NEW FACULTY MEMBERS
December, 2011

We are very pleased to announce the election of five new NICO faculty members: Danny Abrams and Randy Freeman from the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, PJ Lamberson and Brian Rogers from the Kellogg School of Management, and Teresa Woodruff from the Feinberg School of Medicine and the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.

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NICO IN THE NEWS

April, 2012, Science
Scientists must be taught to manage
Young scientists need more help to set up and run research labs, says Jessica C. Seeliger.

March, 2012, Science News
Technique may reveal where it all began
This article about the research of Dirk Brockmann discusses how modeling strategy can help trace roots of widespread phenomena.

January, 2012, The Wall Street Journal
The Coming Tech-led Boom
NICO faculty member Julio Ottino discusses three breakthroughs that are poised to transform this century as much as telephony and electricity did the last.

October, 2011
Janet Pierrehumbert Named Linguistic Society of America Fellow
Janet Pierrehumbert, Director of the Language, Music and Communication Group at NICO and a professor of Linguistics at the Weinberg College, has been elected a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA).

September, 2011, Nature
New study by Brian Uzzi and Serguei Saavedra published in Nature
The paper by Serguei Saavedra, Daniel B. Stouffer, Brian Uzzi and Jordi Bascompte entitled "Strong contributors to network persistence are the most vulnerable to extinction" has appeared in Advanced Online Publication at Nature.

June, 2011, Faculty of 1000
PNAS paper by Brian Uzzi and Serguei Saavedra featured in Faculty of 1000
The paper by Serguei Saavedra, Kathleen Hagerty and Brian Uzzi entitled "Synchronicity, instant messaging, and performance among financial traders" (PNAS 108:5296-5301, 2011) featured in the prestigious Faculty of 1000 (Prof. Iain Couzin).

May 13, 2011, Wired.com
Best of the bots: Hot new robots from Shanghai's ICRA conference.
The ParkourBot, a collaboration between Carnegie Mellon University and Kevin Lynch's robotics lab, was chosen by Wired Magazine as one of the "Best of the Bots" at the 2011 International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Shanghai.

December 1 2010
Video: Watch Dean Julio Ottino's talk at NICO
Thinking in a complex world: the nexus of art, technology and science.

November 1 2010, ABC News
Are You Democrat or Republican? Does Language Give You Away?
Take the quiz that ABC prepared based on the research of Daniel Diermeier, Jean-François Godbout, Bei Yu and Stefan Kaufmann to find out.

July 27 2010, CNN.com
Crisis management 101: What can BP CEO Hayward’s mistakes teach us?
Professor Diermeir comments on Tony Hayward’s tactless remarks and mistakes in handling the oil spill crisis

July 26 2010, Northwestern University News Center
Physicist Honored With Early Career Investigator Award
NICO member Adilson Motter receives the Inaugural Northwestern-Argonne Early Career Investigator Award to help improve the U.S electric power grid

July 21 2010, Financial Times
It pays to think before you click
Professor Uzzi on potential negative consequences of careless e-mailing to colleagues

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