http://www.city-journal.org/html/8_2_a2.html
            Ian Ayres’ book Super Crunchers: Why Thinking by Numbers is the New Way to be Smart delves into many different aspects of networks from Prisoner’s Dilemma to the greater structure of search engines.  What truly grabbed my attention was a chapter on school construction in New York City.  Under the New York City School […]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/technology/10privacy.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&oref=slogin
This New York Times article discusses new marketing strategies and practices by online advertisers. Some sites now track usage history and individual user trends to customize advertising to specific people. To quote the article, “These companies use that information to predict what content and advertisements people most likely want to see. They can […]

The burgeoning social-networking site, Facebook, is attracting the attention of software developers looking to piggyback on the website’s recent success. According to the New York Times, Facebook has offered its vast market as way for developers to make money. The key to the bank lies in applications or “apps” as the hipsters that […]

When one thinks Economics, one may think of concepts such as “supply and demand” and “utility curves”.  However, as “Playing ‘Games’ with Your Vote’ shows, game theory reigns may reign supreme in the heated primaries for our next presidential election.
An example of this can be spotlighted in the Wisconsin caucuses: each […]

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/IBD-0001-22942744.htm
On February 1, Microsoft offered $44.6 billion deal to Yahoo. While reading some of the articles, it was interesting to find out that many articles described MS-Yahoo deal as a game. Some articles, including the one linked above, referred to the specific type of a game called the chicken game, another name for […]

Between two players, fairness, to the rational person, is seen is a 50:50 split. To illustrate an example let’s say there’s Kenny and Roger and these two players are to split $100 between themselves. Kenny has the task of proposing an amount and Roger can either accept or reject his offer. […]

Lately in class, we have been discussing the evolution of information networks. With the creation of these networks, we have all benefited from rapid search, aggregation of data from diverse sources, and presentation of data based on ratings of relevance. With such speedy access and facilitation of information flow, how could these information networks ever […]

On the Thursday evening when I should have been working on “Networks” Homework #3 I escaped with my wife to a performance at Ithaca College of “La Finta Giardiniera”, a comic opera written by Mozart when he was 18 years old.  But there in the program for the performance I found “Notes from the Director” consisting […]

Co-Authorship Networks in the Digital Library Research Community presents an investigation on the DL research community based on examination of the co-authorship network of 1567 authors, based upon papers submitted to three DL conferences from 1995 to 2003.
The research team experimented with a number of metrics intended to characterize the network, which are detailed in […]

            In his efforts to objectively settle debates about athletic prowess, one blogger has developed statistical similarity networks for NBA players and Major League Baseball batters.  By finding each player’s ratio for all statistical categories (e.g. Free-throw Percentage/Turnovers per game), then normalizing the results in each category, the author found the […]