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4 Together these advances have created an unprecedented opportunity to address longstanding questions in the social sciences, ranging from sociology to political science to economics and beyond. [sent-7, score-0.28]
5 The inaugural 2012 workshop on Computational and Online Social Science (CAOSS) aims to bring together diverse research communities that work at the intersection of computer science and social sciences to build a lasting foundation for this emerging discipline. [sent-8, score-1.014]
6 The program features invited speakers Sinan Aral (NYU), David Jensen (UMass), Jure Leskovec (Stanford), David Reiley (Google), and Duncan Watts (Microsoft). [sent-9, score-0.084]
7 As space is limited, we ask that you please complete the free registration form at http://caossnyc. [sent-11, score-0.22]
8 Additionally, if you would like to present your work as a short talk or poster, please submit an abstract when registering. [sent-13, score-0.135]
9 CAOSS is made possible by the generous support of Microsoft Research, eBay Research, Facebook, Google, the Applied Statistics Center at Columbia University, ACM SIGecom, and Johnson Research Lab. [sent-18, score-0.082]
10 Now that these guys don’t work there anymore, I don’t think I have to call it Yahoo! [sent-25, score-0.083]
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