Departmental News
Congratulations to the undergraduate team of Alex Mankowski, Sarah McRae, and Brian Maher, and their mentor John Erickson for winning the "Best Poster" award at WebSci'19 for their poster, Twitter Time Machine: A Multidimensional Immersive Exploration Environment for the TwitterSphere.
Knowledge Representation for Dynamic Spectrum Policy
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Tetherless World Professor of Computer Science Deborah McGuinness has received a three-year, $1.77 million award to develop digital knowledge infrastructure as part of the Dynamic Spectrum Access Policy Development project, initiated as part of a reallocation of sections of the federally controlled radio frequency spectrum.
Rensselaer Hosts ACM Web Science Conference
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will host the ninth International Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Web Science conference from June 26 to June 28, with tutorials and workshops hosted on June 25, with support from the Rensselaer Institute for Data Exploration and Applications (IDEA) and the Rensselaer Tetherless World Constellation.
IBM and Rensselaer Team To Research Chronic Diseases With Cognitive Computing
IBM and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute today announced the creation of the new Center for Health Empowerment by Analytics, Learning, and Semantics (HEALS).
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Ranked 1st in Information Technology and Web Science Programs
Ten Years In - The Science of the World Wide Web
We can look at the World Wide Web from the perspective of mathematics through network science, or the perspective of infrastructure through computer science; but to truly understand the interactions between technology and society found on the web, we need web science.
Immersive Environments in Action at Rensselaer Research Showcase
Research projects under development within the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute were on stage for the institute’s third annual research showcase held Thursday.
Rensselaer and Mount Sinai Team Up To Earn Prominent Role in New NIH Program in Environmental and Children’s Health
To support its groundbreaking work in the emergent field of “exposomics,” the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded two grants to research teams from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Launches Initiative on Healthy Birth, Growth, and Development Knowledge: Semantic and Data Analytic Support
Rensselaer has received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support the Healthy birth, growth and development (HBGD) initiative.
Rensselaer Professor Peter Fox Elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
Peter Fox, director of the interdisciplinary Information Technology and Web Science program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), has been elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union.