The computer science department, in cooperation with the UNM Center for Science, Technology
and Policy, hosted a talk by Herb Lin on Cyberattack
as an Instrument of U.S. Policy, followed by a panel discussion.
The panelists, from left to right, were Andrew Ross (Director,
UNM Center for Science, Technology and Policy and Professor, UNM
Department of Political Science), Daniel Dennett (Austin B. Fletcher
Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University and Miller scholar, Santa Fe
Institute), David Ackley (Associate Professor, UNM Department of
Computer Science and external professor, Santa Fe Institute), Robert
Hutchison (Senior Manager for Computer Science and Information
Operations, Sandia National Laboratories), and Herb Lin (Chief
Scientist for the National Research Council's Computer Science). The
panel was moderated by Stephanie Forrest (Professor and Chairman of
UNM Department of Computer Science, Research Professor, Santa Fe
Institute), far right. A podcast and article of the talk and panel discussion is
available at UNM Live and UNM Today.
Related links: Herb Lin; Cyberattack as an Instrument of U.S. Policy; UNM Center for Science, Technology and Policy; UNM Live; UNM Today
The 4th Annual Faculty of Color Awards winners were announced by the Committee
for Project for New Mexico Graduates of Color (PNMGC) on May 13 2010. Faculty of
Color Awards honor UNM faculty and staff who contribute their time and support
to underrepresented graduate students. Prof. Moses won the award
for her contributions in mentoring research. Professor Moses's research
interests are in biological networks, agent-based models of biological systems
including the immune system and ant colonies, and other research in complex
systems and computational biology.
Related links: Project for New Mexico Graduates of Color; Faculty of Color Awards; Professor Melanie Moses
Three UNM PhD students, George Bezerra (Computer Science), Paul Hooper
(Anthropology), and Wenyun Zuo (Biology) spent the Spring 2010 semester
developing and teaching the first interdisciplinary course on Complex Networks
Science at UNM. This unique teaching experience was provided through the
auspices of UNM's Program of Interdisciplinary Biological and Biomedical
Sciences (PiBBs), where
the three students are fellows. The course had 17 registered students from more
than 7 different departments, plus several researchers and professors who
regularly joined the lectures and discussions. The course covered topics such as
random graphs, small-world networks, scale-free networks, fractal networks,
network scaling, and community structure. It also included case studies of human
and animal social networks, biological food webs, metabolic networks, road
systems, neural networks, and computational networks. The material used in the
course are available online at PiBBs
.
Related links: PiBBs; material used in the course
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