Networks in the News

Around the world teams of scientists are working on the next technological revolution: quantum computing. But what makes it so special? And why do we need it? We ask physicist Dr. Ruth Oulton of the Bristol University to explain. http://www.theguardia...

Federal Trade Commission report calls for restrictions on data brokers, finds companies gather billions of consumer transactions daily, largely without public knowledge. Companies that silently gather data on consumers should be more transparent about ...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella introduces Skype Translator, says we’ve entered a “post-post” digital world in which personalized experiences instead of specific devices will rule the day. http://ubm.io/1gFn8zp

Don’t put your big-data project on hold — members of your current staff may be the best fit for your data science team. Data scientists, like fire-breathing dragons, may exist. But I submit that your organization does not need either of them to solve business challenges. Rather, data-related problems are [...]

BY ANNALISE KLINGBEIL, CALGARY HERALD When a 14-year-old girl with Down syndrome went missing earlier this month after walking away from her Calgary home, police used all the resources they could to find her. A helicopter flew over Royal Oak and broadcast details about the missing teen to residents, officers [...]

New activity on your video: headlocal commented on Doyne Farmer – Networks in Financial Stability & Economic Growth great talk – ~33 min Doyne F explains exactly the Aug 2007 hedge fund catastrophic implosion, by the market-impact ...

By Park Hyong-ki | The Korea Herald Korea prides itself for being superfast at adopting and building new things like none other. It can make planes, trains and automobiles, and even ships, robots and telecommunication networks faster than most. This culture of “ppalli ppalli,” in which everything has to be [...]

By Estaban Moro Millions of tweets, retweets and mentions are exchanged in Twitter everyday about very different subjects, events, opinions, etc. While aggregating this data over a time window might help to understand some properties of those processes in online social networks, the speed of information diffusion around particular time-bound [...]

Instagram produces far more engagement than other social media sites for brand advertising.   http://blogs.forrester.com/nate_elliott/14-04-29-instagram_is_the_king_of_social_engagement

Ecologist Deborah Gordon studies ants wherever she can find them – in the desert, in the tropics, in her kitchen … In this fascinating talk, she explains her obsession with insects most of us would happily swat away without a second thought. She argues that ant life provides a useful [...]