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)