This afternoon I attended a talk by Cornell computer scientist Jon Kleinberg at Stanford University, in the computer science department’s Distinguished Lectures Series. His research is fascinating, but the talk was also…
Category: Social Science
Assorted links from the 2010 winter break
Some stuff that I encountered in the past weeks. Somehow, it’s all networks-related. In the latest issue of AJS, Andreas Wimmer and Kevin Lewis use the ‘Tastes, Times, Time’ Facebook data and…
Workshop on Networks in Economics and Sociology in Utrecht
As every year, we organize the Workshop on Networks in Economics and Sociology at Utrecht University. Again it will carry the subtitle “Dynamic Networks”. This year it takes place at June 24…
A Socio-Economic Supercollider?
Via the SOCNET-list I came across the The FuturIcT Knowledge Accelerator, a European ‘Flagship ICT research initiative‘ for a ‘CERN-like project to study the way our living planet works in a social…
The amazing science of the hidden side of everything
Albert-László Barabási’s new book “Bursts” is out, and according to its subtitle it’s about “The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do”. I really do admire Barabási’s scientific work, and I really appreciate…
Social learning pays off
Science recently published a series of articles on a very interesting study on social learning. Using an evolutionary Axelrod-style tournament, the authors show that under a wide range of conditions, it is…