Sorin Adam Matei
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post 03/04/2009

Sorin Adam Matei

  • Why Skilled Immigrants Are Leaving the U.S.

    Despite the fact that they constitute only 12% of the U.S. population, immigrants have started 52% of Silicon Valley’s technology companies and contributed to more than 25% of our global patents. They make up 24% of the U.S. science and engineering workforce holding bachelor’s degrees and 47% of science and engineering workers who have PhDs. Immigrants have co-founded firms such as Google (NasdaqGS:GOOG – News), Intel (NasdaqGS:INTC – News), eBay (NasdaqGS:EBAY – News), and Yahoo! (NasdaqGS:YHOO – News).

    tags: immigrants

  • Russian president to face questions over US letter – International Herald Tribune

    Russia’s president has his first chance to comment on reports he received a secret letter from President Barack Obama seeking help to disarm Iran at a news conference Tuesday wrapping up a two-day visit to Spain.
    The letter to Dmitry Medvedev, which The New York Times reported was hand-delivered three weeks ago, suggested the U.S. would not need to build a controversial missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic if Iran’s efforts to build a nuclear weapon were halted.

    tags: russia, eastern europe, iran, foreign, policy

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Sorin Adam Matei

Assistant Vice President for Partnerships in Strategic Defense Innnovation and Professor of Communication at Purdue University, Director of the FORCES initiative leads research teams that study the relationship between technological and social systems using big data, simulation, and mapping approaches. He published papers and articles in Journal of Communication, Communication Research, Information Society, National Interest, and Foreign Policy. He is the author or co-editor of several books. The most recent is Structural differentation in social media. He also co-edited Ethical Reasoning in Big Data,Transparency in social media and Roles, Trust, and Reputation in Social Media Knowledge Markets: Theory and Methods (Computational Social Sciences) , all three the product of the NSF funded KredibleNet project. Dr. Matei's teaching portfolio includes technology and strategy, online interaction, and digital media analytics classes. A former BBC World Service journalist, his contributions have been published in Esquire and several leading Romanian newspapers. In Romania, he is known for his books Boierii Mintii (The Mind Boyars), Idolii forului (Idols of the forum), and Idei de schimb (Spare ideas).

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