Saturday, March 31, 2012

Photos and Reflections on a Great Ice Show Today

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Today the Wild Weather Ice Show took place at the FMC Ice Sports Arena in Greenfield, Massachusetts. My husband and I shuttled several of m...
Friday, March 30, 2012

General Strike Disrupts Spain but Our Conference Poster Makes It Through

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If you have international collaborators, colleagues, and friends, you may hear of world news events before any official news reports. This h...

Thrilling New Big Data R&D Initiative from NSF-NIH

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Yesterday was an exciting day for big data with the U.S. federal government announcing a major new research initiative on big data at a le...
Thursday, March 29, 2012

Learn the Languages of the Internet, Solve Problems, and Communicate

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Having returned from a two week stint at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden , I was surrounded by different languages, most, notably, S...

The 2012 Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction Conference

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I am flying to the 2012 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction (SBP 2012) this Sunday. T...
Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Photos of Great Public Transportation in Sweden from Ferries to Trams and Busses

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One of the highlights of my recent two weeks in Sweden in the city of Gothenburg .was watching and then making use of the public transportat...

Refuse to Lose Although We Did Against Stanford at Madison Square Garden

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The motto, "Refuse to Lose," came from our former basketball coach at UMass Amherst, John Calipari, who needs no introduction. He ...