The Indiana University Office of the Vice President for Research notified SLIS last week that the process for establishing the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center has been completed. The Indiana University Board of Trustees approved this Center as an official IU Center in their September 2005 meeting, with the final steps being completed this fall. This new SLIS Center is now listed on the Research at Indiana University web page for Centers, Institutes and Museums.
SLIS faculty member, Katy Börner is the Director of this Center. The Center's mission statement (listed on the Research at Indiana University page) is:
The Center will design a socio-technical infrastructure for the analysis, modeling and visualization of social, behavioral, biomedical, and other networks. The cyberinfrastructure will facilitate network science research and education by providing an efficient means to share data and code, to replicate results, to compare algorithms, to disseminate new algorithms, to communicate findings, and to find complementary expertise.
Said Dean Blaise Cronin: "This is good news, indeed, for both the school and the campus as a whole. It is also a fitting tribute to Dr. Börner's talents as a researcher and program builder."
More on Katy Börner's research.
Posted December 01, 2005