In December 2007, the Department of Transportation (DOT) announced that it plans to restrict the number of flights permitted to takeoff and land at Kennedy International Airport to around 82 or 83 per hour in the near future.  At peak hours nowadays, more than 100 flights arrive at and depart from Kennedy International Airport.   U.S. […]

1. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9064698&intsrc=news_ts_head
2. http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050929-072711
The first article examines the innovative method of search ranking system created by Yahoo. The new Yahoo Buzz program will generate a “BuzzScore” to rate news stories, videos, and blog posts on the Web. The new version contains content from nearly 100 publishers and plans to open the site to all publishers. Yahoo […]

No-Limit Texas Hold’em is a complex game with many different variables, including your cards, the cards on board, the number of chips that you and your opponents have, the number of chips in the pot, and more. With all of these elements changing every hand, it may seem that there is no equilibrium strategy […]

In response to several blog posts earlier on this semester, describing our course’s broad application to biological networks (such as this one, this one, and this one) I highlight that Piers J Ingram, Michael PH Stump and Jaroslav Stark published research in 2006 demonstrating that network effects in biology are not only often poorly understood, but in their example […]

Econ 204
Blog Post
 
            A social network that has recently become a hot topic in both news and amongst college campuses is the website Juicycampus.com. This website has sparked a new wave of opinions on these internet based social networks that are present in out day today. The website is a blog post website which is […]

The current scenario in debt and equity markets across the globe brings together many principles of networks and graph theory. I will briefly outline the modern structured finance industry to provide not only a window into what has happened, but also to examine critical gatekeepers – the bond insurers – whose potential insolvencies will shock […]

On Facebook, Scholars Link Up With Data
The New York Times
By Stephanie Rosenbloom
December 17, 2007
A team of researchers at Harvard and UCLA are monitoring the Facebook profiles of a class of students to study how personal tastes and habits affect how social relationships are formed. Research has found that the benefits of Facebook friends may include […]

The Cold War held a shaky peace through the use of a strategy known as Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD). As a result of the nuclear arms race of the 1950’s and 1960’s, both the United States and the Soviet Union possessed enough thermonuclear weapons and ballistic missiles to instantly theoretically destroy all human life on […]

Power in networks is clearly visible in the financial world.  Investment banking, with the buying and selling of stocks on a stock exchange is all about network exchange theory.  On a larger scale, corporations are constantly upgrading and improving their product to reach new consumers that would otherwise go to other companies.  An example that […]

How one clumsy ship cut off the web for 75 million people
Fiber optic cables are the backbone to the entire internet. Miles of these cables span continents, sending data as pulses of light from one destination to another. But what happens if the destination is somewhere across the ocean or if data needs to travel […]