http://nsdl.library.cornell.edu/websites/expertvoices/info2040/archives/1751 This is a supplemental blog for a course which will cover how the social, technological, and natural worlds are connected, and how the study of networks sheds light on these connections. Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:27:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://nsdl.library.cornell.edu/websites/expertvoices/info2040/archives/1751#comment-1167 Cornell Info 204 Digest » Blog Archive » Traffic, Vetos, and the Final Minutes of a Lecture Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:19:39 +0000 http://nsdl.library.cornell.edu/websites/expertvoices/info2040/archives/1751#comment-1167 [...] Fred Billups provides a very interesting simulation he created for a familiar experience — the way in which a few people packing up at the end of a large lecture class can trigger a large cascade of further students deciding to pack up. We’ll be talking a lot more about such cascading behavior later in the semester. Interestingly, in one of the papers we’ll be discussing — Mark Granovetter’s Threshold Models of Collective Behavior — the case of people leaving a lecture is actually explicitly invoked as an example. This type of packing-up phenomenon can also be viewed as an instance of synchronization, the subject of Steve Strogatz’s recent book Sync. [...] […] Fred Billups provides a very interesting simulation he created for a familiar experience — the way in which a few people packing up at the end of a large lecture class can trigger a large cascade of further students deciding to pack up. We’ll be talking a lot more about such cascading behavior later in the semester. Interestingly, in one of the papers we’ll be discussing — Mark Granovetter’s Threshold Models of Collective Behavior — the case of people leaving a lecture is actually explicitly invoked as an example. This type of packing-up phenomenon can also be viewed as an instance of synchronization, the subject of Steve Strogatz’s recent book Sync. […]

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