Blog Posts From Paul Kantor

Sudden Opportunity!   Calling all undergraduate students: there are two opportunities to do exciting research this summer, and be paid for it as well. The National Science Foundation has awarded 2 Research Experience for Undergraduates Fellowships (REU), for work on a project about medical decision-making from the patient's perspective.

Sudden Opportunity!   Calling all undergraduate students: there are two opportunities to do exciting research this summer, and be paid for it as well. The National Science Foundation has awarded 2 Research Experience for Undergraduates Fellowships (REU), for work on a project about medical decision-making from the patient's perspective.

We are ready for an exciting new semester, and there is still room to join the classs. Behind the stodgy name (Internet and the Information Environment) lies the real scoop on how those search engines, recommender systems, and many of the other marvels of the modern Web really work.   The secret is that they use Mathematics (the Language of Science).  In this course, which meets one half of the Rutgers Core Mathematics requirement, you will learn about Sets, Probability, Vectors, Matrices and Graph Theory.  Your guide is Prof.

http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~kantor/AEF/  Students, follow this link for an opportunity to earn money as a participant in a a research project. This is a study on competition and cooperation.

 Internet and the Information Environment: A Quantitative Approach This coming semester, the exciting math core course (did you ever expect to see those words right next to each other?) about Internet searching and how it works, is flying from eCompanion to user-friendly Sakai. Repeated comments from students have persuaded pilot Paul Kantor to switch, so that it will be easier for students to work ahead and stay on top of the course.   The class will meet each Tuesday and Friday from 11:30 to 12:50 in SCILS, Room 212.

Thsi coming semester, the exciting math core course (did you ever expect to see those words right next ot each other) will fly from eCompanion to Sakai. Repeted comments from students have persuaded pilot Paul Kantor to switch, so that it will be easier for students to work ahead, and stay on top ofthe course. Theclass will meet on Tuesday and Friday from 9:50 to 11:10 in Room 212, SCILS building.

Adding to two exciting new hires last year, LIS seeks outstanding scholars at all ranks interested in Information Science, Social Media, Health Related issues and more. This year Mor Naaman , from Yahoo! research, and Smaranda Muresan , most recently a Post-Doctoral researcher at Maryland, have joined a large research groups focused on Digital Libraries, Social and Collaborative Information Behaviors, and the whole range of technical and social issues arising from, and driving the growth of, the 21st centuries Information Revolution.

Welcome back, new PhD students.

March 2, Carole and I will be back in Cleveland  to direct the International Services Center International Folk Festival. If you have friends in the midwest, let them know about this wonderful event. Buy tickets here! &

Each of us celebrates one or two, but not .... 12/18/07   Wishing you the joys of the season, and just one or two happy holidays   Dear Friends and Colleagues,   I want to take advantage of this blog to wish you all the joys of the season, and a happy holiday, or holidays, of your choice. I have grown weary of wishing people “Happy Holidays”. While everyone that I know seems to celebrate one holiday or another, very few people celebrate the whole bunch of them.

an excerpt form our Internet class, which meets the Math Core requirement, appears on YouTube. courtesy of Marianne Martens, Steve Miller, and, of course, our outstanding students.   Check it out at   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvX_9iOioEU Check the second film for the discussion of the equation x=Fx, in the world of matrices.

Fulfill a Mathematics Core Requirement Right Here at SCILS   New mathematics core course nearing the end of a successful first flight.   November 20, 2007. SCILS, Rutgers.