From: Stevan Harnad <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 11:38:26 -0400

Theme of the Summer Institute: Web Science and the mind

http://www.summer14.isc.uqam.ca/page/renseignement.php?lang_id=2

Dates: 7 to 18 July 2014

Language: Owing to its international character, the Summer Institute
will be held entirely in English.

The Institute is intended for:

graduate and post-graduate students from the participating
disciplines: cognitive science, neuroscience, evolutionary biology,
computer science, psychology, philosophy, scientometrics, informatics,
library science, network science -- faculty members, scholars,
engineers, and professionals

Academic activities: Contents will be presented through lectures,
group discussions, and poster sessions.

Academic credit: For students who wish to take part in the Summer
Institute for credit, click here.

Partial list of speakers:

Katy Borner (graphic webs of science)
Simon Dedeo (Wikipedia collective dynamics)
Sergey Dorogovtsev (network evolution)
Peter Gloor (collaborative networks
Jennfer Golbeck (social web)
Deborah Gordon (collective behaviour)
Wendy Hall (web science)
Jim Hendler (data web)
Tony Hey (science web)
Francis Heylighen (global brain)
Kaivan Kousha (webmetrics)
Richard Menary (extended mind)
Alexandre Monnin (web philosophy
Neylon Cameron (open science data-mining)
Takashi Nishikawa (community structur)
Filippo Radicchi (network communities)
Rob Rupert (extended mind )
Judith Simon (socio-technical epistemology)
Mark Steyvers (wisdom of crowds)
Jeff Stibel (web & brain)
Phil Tetlow (web life)