Idaho State University history professor Jack Owens has received a $1.3 million four-year grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled, “Understanding social networks within complex, nonlinear systems: geographically-integrated history and dynamics GIS.”  The grant funds a project that takes a multidisciplinary approach to fuse data on humans, events and environments.

“The project’s ultimate goal is to better integrate into computational thinking the messy, ambiguous, uncertain, and contradictory information commonly used in history and the historical social sciences through computational innovation and narrative knowledge creation to revolutionize research outcomes in these disciples,” Owens said.

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