Bat Batjargal, a Harvard researcher who has written extensively on the social networks of entrepreneurs in different cultures, has some interesting preliminary findings about the role of gender in shaping the structure of entrepreneurs’ social networks. The study concludes:
Men who are entrepreneurs have a lot in common with their female counterparts: They are young, energetic, […]

Huge numbers of brain cells may navigate small worlds
            Modeling the brain as a network is just one of the ways in which people have tried to understand the brain.  A “small world” idea was first introduced around forty years ago by Stanley Milgram, who created a study in which participants attempt to send a […]

Business Week Article The popular online social networking site, Facebook, as well as other social networking sites such as Friendster and Myspace are beginning to open up their Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), allowing third parties to essentially build their own applications using the content and function provided by these online social networks. The most […]

            Earlier this semester, we discussed labeling the edges of a graph. A plus was given if the two nodes were friends, and a minus was given if the two nodes were enemies. This paradigm worked well in describing relationships among people. Not surprisingly, pluses and minuses can also be used to characterize relationships among […]

In “Social Networks in Silicon Valley,” a chapter of The Silicon Valley Edge: A Habitat for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Emilio J. Castilla, Hokyo Hwang, and Mark and Ellen Granovetter profile the social networks and institutions that make Silicon Valley a unique social […]

Welcome to the course blog for INFO 204. This is 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.
Topics include: how opinions, fads, and political movements spread through society; the robustness and fragility of food webs and financial […]