Networks in the News

“A new web and mobile platform plans to simplify our online lives by providing users access to all of their accounts in one place. Squidlle will integrate dozens of social networks and sites for music, video, images, design and blogging and create one combined feed for all of them. The […]

A game called VAX! about human networks and immunology developed by Ellsworth Campbell and Isaac Bromley from Penn State University demonstrates how herd immunization can prevent epidemics. The visualization helps show how contagions can spread quickly across the human network. Concepts such as why immunization for healthy, low-risk individuals is […]

“The world is going to teamwork. In the 1950s, about half of our work was done in teams. Today, by one measure, it’s more like 90 percent. Maybe it’s at the office. Maybe it’s on Google Hangout. Maybe it’s at the PTA. But what makes a good team? A smart [...]

Original Article: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/534576/how-network-science-is-changing-our-understanding-of-law/ Summary: Konaris et al at the National Technical University of Athens in Greece expanded on existing legal network analysis by extracting “all the documents from the European Community’s legal database dating back to 1951” and organizing the texts into three subnetworks: treaties between countries, regulations and directives [...]

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Using Wolfram technologies, Dr Marco Thiel from Aberdeen University created a computer model to predict which countries are most likely to suffer an Ebola outbreak next. He said: “The US would be less at risk than the European countries, that is, it would get significant numbers of infected later. All of that seems [...]

Some facts first: It’s the most wide-open Senate and Governor election in a decade; Young people (Facebook user base) are more Democratic but less likely to get out to vote; There is a strong social influence and peer pressure in social networks. Tomorrow, Facebook’s high-profile button that proclaims “I’m Voting” [...]

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After Apple’s celebrity photo leaks, now it comes to everyone. CNN Money reported that numerous third-party apps like SaveSnap, SnapBox and SnapSpy offer to save incoming photos. And some of them got hacked. We are back to the square one of network security: usability vs. privacy. How to protect personal [...]

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