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concerning The Observatorium activities


16 May 2011

fet11

The Observatorium presented the exhibit "Dive into the Internet" at fet'11 - The European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition, 4-6 May 2011, Budapest. Visitors entered a darkened room where a system of motion sensors allowed them to interact with a network of concepts by opening and reading texts through stylized body movements. Participants were able to read news pages from the on-line press detected in real time in English, French, German, Hungarian and Portuguese. The exhibit integrated the research developed by the Observatorium team, concerning real-time monitoring of multi-level network structures for the study of knowledge generation and opinion dynamics in the Internet.
The stand was shared with FuturICT, an important integrative research project supported by many European laboratories and research teams, including The Observatorium.


4 Feb 2011

fet11

The Observatorium prepares the exhibit "Dive into the Internet", to be presented at fet'11 - The European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition, 4-6 May 2011, Budapest. Visitors will enter a darkened room where a system of motion sensors will allow them to interact with a network of concepts by opening and reading texts through stylized body movements. Participants will be able to read news pages from the on-line press detected in real time in English, French and German. The exhibit integrates the research developed by the Observatorium team, concerning real-time monitoring of multi-level network structures for the study of knowledge generation and opinion dynamics in the Internet.


8 Mar 2011

Jorge Louçã presented the the talk "Monitoring the Socio-Economic Climate at a Global Scale" at the ETH - Suiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Competence Center for "Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems".


28 Feb 2011

David Rodrigues and José António Silva presented their on-going research at the ETH Chair of Sociology, in particular of Modeling and Simulation, at the ETH - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.


20 Feb 2011

Jorge Louçã presented the Observatorium at the meeting "Mathematics in the Science of Complex Systems", held at the European Centre for Living Technology, Venice.


17 Dec 2010

Jeff Johnson has visited The Observatorium in November/December 2010. Colaborative research ideas were be discussed, including a new use of Hypernetworks Theory.


27 Oct 2010

Stefano Balietti visited The Observatorium this week. Discussion on how to interact with the FuturICT and the Innovation Accelerator were on the agenda.


16 Sept 2010

David Rodrigues has presented the paper "The structure of news: topic monitoring in online media with mutual information" at the ECCS'10 - European Conference on Complex Systems. This paper received a special mention award from the ECCS'10 Programme Committee.