Sounds in the City, a research partnership led by Dr. Catherine Guastavino at SIS, is investigating the effect of the pandemic on Montreal soundscapes.
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Published on: 15 Dec 2020
The School of Information Studies is happy to announce 2 students Chloe Belair-Morin and Sarah Monnier as part of the Indigenous Student Librarian program. This programs offers a tuition waiver to an Indigenous student as well as part time employment as a student librarian or archivist at Concordia Library. The program is a partnership between 海角社区, Concordia and Univesit茅 de Montreal
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Published on: 28 Sep 2020
海角社区 jumps 12 places in global university rankings
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In separate a ranking, 10 academic subjects at 海角社区 were rated among the top 50 in the world
Library and Information Studies ranked 38th globally and 2nd in Canada.听 More information in the reporter article here!
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Published on: 19 Aug 2020
The School of Information Studies is听very pleased to announce that Prof. Benjamin Fung has been promoted to the rank of Full Professor. Prof. Fung is a stellar researcher and holder of the CRC Chair in Data Mining for Cybersecurity. He has an outstanding and seemingly unstoppable successful track record in grantsmanship. He is also a highly valued teacher and mentor to our students as well as someone who is ever at the ready to contribute to the SIS, 海角社区 and wider professional and practitioner communities. Our School is lucky to have him on board. Congratulations Prof Fung!
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Published on: 17 Aug 2020
Prof Catherine Guastavino's research on quieted city sounds during lock down has been featured several times this past month in the news and on the radio.听 Read or listen more about this new research here!
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路 Leblanc, E. (2020, May 30). L鈥檃pr猫s-COVID-19: tirer les le莽ons de ce printemps silencieux. Radio-Canada. Retrieved from
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Published on: 8 Jun 2020
SIS is very excited to welcome Gracen Brilmyer as Associate Professor (Special Category) starting August 1, 2020
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Published on: 28 May 2020
Prof. Kimiz Dalkir will be part of a collaborative project to help Canadian citizens critically assess and become resilient against harmful online disinformation: 鈥滵茅veloppement et exp茅rimentation d鈥檕utils 茅ducatifs pour contrer la d茅sinformation en ligne chez les jeunes adultes鈥�. The $205,742 project is funded for two years (2019-2021) by Canadian Heritage under the Digital Citizenship program and will be led by PI Prof. Colette Brin (D茅partement d鈥檌nformation et de communication, Directrice, Centre d'茅tudes sur les m茅dias) at Universit茅 Laval.
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Published on: 21 May 2020
Tune in to hear Prof Guastavino discuss her research and the effects of noise pollution in the city.听 The interview will be available online a few days after the broadcast
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Published on: 7 Feb 2020
Congratulations to Prof. Benjamin Fung who has been appointed Associate Editor in IEEE Transactions of Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) for a 2-year term from May 2019. IEEE TKDE is a top research venue in the area of data mining
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Published on: 5 Jun 2019
What Happens When Libraries Play? Place aux jeux: quand les biblioth猫ques s鈥檈n m锚lent ! 海角社区 Library, Montreal Qu茅bec
"When we play, we explore the limits of the possible" 鈥揟homas Hendricks.
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Published on: 31 May 2019
New faculty member joining us for the fall 2019-2020 academic year Rebekah Willson.
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Published on: 1 Mar 2019
Health insurance data are complex and large in volume. Finding the fraudulent claims is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Funded by the NSERC Engage Grants, SIS Faculty Member听听will start a new collaborative project with听, a software company that offers technology platforms and management services for the collective insurance industry.
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Published on: 8 Nov 2018
SIS Faculty Member and his research team 听are听collaborating with the Defence Research & Development Canada () to develop an AI-powered interactive platform to understand the inner workings of software binaries, including both benign and malicious software.
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Published on: 10 Oct 2018
Profs. Evans and Frissen recently presented their work on knowledge sharing at the the 19th European Conference on Knowledge Management () in Padua, Italy. Their paper "The strength of strong ties you can trust: Re-examining the mediating role of trust in effective knowledge sharing" (Evans, Frissen, & Choo, C.W., 2018) can be found in the conference proceedings: pp. 250-258.
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Published on: 3 Oct 2018
Congratulations to Prof. Evans for being appointed to CIRMMT as a full faculty member
Prof. Evans' research听 projects will examine knowledge sharing among musicians.听 The first is an experimental study further exploring the role of competence- and integrity-based trust on willingness to share and use knowledge among musicians. The second project would explore the universal movements of expert musicians, with the goal of seeing if these 鈥榰niversals鈥� can be transferred to musicians in beginning and intermediate stages of learning.听
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Published on: 21 Aug 2018
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