NSI News

NSI 1st Charity Event

Mon, 16 February 2009 17:00:00 CDT

On February 8, 2009, NSI sponsored its own Chief Cultural Sciences Officer, Dr. Larry Kuznar, in the 2nd Annual Run It, Walk It for the Chris Brown memorial fund raiser. The event raises funds for a memorial scholarship in memory of Chris Brown, a well-known and highly talented runner and Indiana University – Purdue University, Fort Wayne (IPFW) Cross Country team member. Chris tragically died of cancer in 2007 and the memorial fund was created by his friends to support future IPFW student athletes.

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Parntering With Social Scientists

Mon, 19 January 2009 11:00:00 CDT

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Fingerprinting Leading Indicators of WMD Terrorism

Sat, 15 November 2008 22:00:00 CDT

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), in cooperation with Stanford University's Department of Computer Science, will be holding a Technosocial Predictive Analytics Symposium to explore new methods for anticipatory analytical thinking at its AAAI Spring Symposium, March 22-25, 2009 at Stanford University, Stanford, CA.

A paper entited "Fingerprinting Leading Indicators of WMD Terrorism: An Integrated Modeling Approach" by Kuznar (NSI), Asal (SUNY/Albany), Rethemeyer (SUNY/Albany), Pattipati (UConn), Popp (NSI), and Shellman (College of William and Mary) will be presented at the symposium (view paper). In this paper a holistic, integrated social science analysis of the leading indicators of WMD terrorism that advances what is known about the social conditions that foster WMD terrorism is presented.

For more details on the symposium, see http://predictiveanalytics.pnl.gov/aaai_symposium.

Army unveils new Stability Operations manual

Mon, 6 October 2008 09:00:00 CDT

The commanding general of the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command, Gen. William S. Wallace, unveiled new Army doctrine today, Oct. 6, at the annual meeting of the Association of the United States Army in Washington. The new stability operations manual, Field Manual 3-07, puts stability operations into doctrine after it was recently introduced in FM 3-0, Operations, where its importance was elevated to the same level as offensive and defensive operations.

News release
Stability Operations manual

HASC committee on social and behavioral sciences in national security

Mon, 12 May 2008 09:00:00 CDT

Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 9:00 am, the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee joint with the Subcommittee on Research and Science Education of the Science and Technology Committee will meet to hear testimony on role of the social and behavioral sciences in national security...

http://armedservices.edgeboss.net/wmedia/armedservices/tutc042408.wvx
http://armedservices.house.gov/hearing_information.shtml

Witnesses:
Colonel Martin Schweitzer, USA
Commander, 4th Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division
Fort Bragg

Dr. André van Tilborg
Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Science and Technology)
Department of Defense

Dr. Mark Weiss
Director, Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences
Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences
National Science Foundation

Dr. David R. Segal
Professor of Sociology
University of Maryland