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March 2018

Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies (ICOS) Big Data Summer Camp, May 14-18

By | Data, Educational, General Interest, Happenings, News
Social and organizational life are increasingly conducted online through electronic media, from emails to Twitter feed to dating sites to GPS phone tracking. The traces these activities leave behind have acquired the (misleading) title of “big data.” Within a few years, a standard part of graduate training in the social sciences will include a hefty dose of “using of big data,” and we will all be utilizing terms like API and Python.
This year ICOS, MIDAS, and ARC are again offering a one-week “big data summer camp” for doctoral students interested in organizational research, with a combination of detailed examples from researchers; hands-on instruction in Python, SQL, and APIs; and group work to apply these ideas to organizational questions.  Enrollment is free, but students must commit to attending all day for each day of camp, and be willing to work in interdisciplinary groups.

The dates of the camp are all day May 14th-18th.

U-M will hold “hackathon” for health communication, with help from Sanjay Gupta and family

By | Educational, General Interest, Happenings, News

Disease outbreaks. Medical discoveries. Natural disasters. The hope — and hype — that can come with new treatment options.

Sanjay Gupta, M.D. has covered them all in his years as medical correspondent for CNN. He’s seen over and over the crucial role of communication in responding to the health effects of every kind of crisis. He’s also seen the delays, missed opportunities and even tragedy that can come from poor communication of health information.

That’s why he and his wife Rebecca have teamed up with his alma mater, the University of Michigan, to support an effort to bring new ideas and tools to health communication.

Application is now open for participation in marathon event March 23-25, focused on innovation for sharing information in times of crisis & beyond.

Read more….

U-M, Army research on robot/human interaction published in ECN Magazine

By | General Interest, News

Research being jointly conducted by the Army Research Laboratory and the University of Michigan focused on improving communications between humans and robots was recently published in ECN Magazine.

The research team developed a series of yes or no questions, borrowing from the game 20 Questions, which may lead to new techniques for machine-machine and machine-human interactions.

The U-M research team consists of Hye Won Chung, Lizhong Zheng and MIDAS co-director Alfred Hero.