Media Relations
Friday,
February 20,
2004
Cognitive Science Program
Indiana University shined the brightest in an international competition to promote innovative humanities and social science research using large-scale data analysis, landing a leading number of five scholars on two of 14 winning projects. In all, 67 international teams competed in the Digging Into Data Challenge, with IU as the only university in the U.S. with researchers on two winning teams.
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More than 60 faculty members and graduate students representing 16 universities from four states will gather on the Indiana University Bloomington campus Saturday in an effort to develop regional networks in the Midwest tied to sustainable food systems.
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Dozens of Indiana University researchers from various departments and campuses participated in the American Educational Research Association conference in New Orleans. This news release discusses just a sampling of the studies, addressing questions about college access, learning transfer, high school students' social engagement, environmental education and the international excellence gap.
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Indiana University's robotics experts will recognize the nation's second annual National Robotics Week this Wednesday (April 13) with a public open house at IU Bloomington's official robot research center, R-House, that will include a showcase of robot perception, action and interaction.
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Astroturfers, Twitter-bombers and smear campaigners need beware this election season as a group of leading Indiana University information and computer scientists today (Sept. 28) unleashed Truthy.indiana.edu, a sophisticated new Twitter-based research tool that combines data mining, social network analysis and crowdsourcing to uncover deceptive tactics and misinformation leading up to the Nov. 2 elections.
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The most beautiful thing about humans, says Indiana University researcher S. Lee Hong, is that they are both ever-changing and sometimes prone to the errors. Yet humans are still extremely flexible and adaptable, managing the transition from one context to another almost seamlessly. His new study demonstrates how this adaptability boils down to a zero-sum game.
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