…or how you can go from “Network” to “Cadbury Creme Egg” in 12 clicks.
In my search for something “good” to post about I came across some xkcd comics that I couldn’t pass up. Since they don’t really have any intellectual integrity, I thought I would just post them for fun and use one as the […]

What is one of the most common web sites visited by the students of Cornell University? Facebook.
Facebook is a student social network, that combines to some extent privacy and the ability to socialize in an initially collegiate environment. For example: finding the person that lives in your dorm that sat next you in class and […]

In the PC game Civilization IV players take control of civilization races, and through a progression of time from 4000BC to 2050AD, the player aims to develop this civilization and win the game by any of the pre-defined 6 victory methods. One aspect of the game is technologies that act as prerequisites for actions the […]

This recent article in the Globe and Mail describes a new social network being cultivated online: DNAancestryproject.com, a network that links people based on their related genes. This website is being run by Genetrack Biolabs, Inc., a DNA testing lab that has, until now, primarily focused on paternity testing and legal investigations. Those interested in […]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/02/business/02inside.1.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1595967,00.html
In the first week of March, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
accused 14 people of taking part in a huge inside trading ring, allegedly
making illicit profits totaling $15 million. The 14 defendants supposedly
used information stolen from UBS Securities LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co.,
Inc. Both links are about the same ordeal, but there are some […]

Some of the links in this post are very cool graphs. Definitely worth checking out!
Summary: Given a graph, finding an important node can sometimes be very intuitive. For example, finding a ‘bridge’ between two separate social groups might be very obvious if the graph is drawn properly. However, converting a set of […]

http://www.parc.xerox.com/research/publications/files/5599.pdf
 
World of Warcraft (WoW for short) is the world’s leading MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role playing game), captivating over 6 million people around the world.  While many would brush aside WoW or any other online game as a gross waste of time that drags people away from real life friendships and relationships, Nicholas Yee and […]

http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/selfdefense.html
In his paper Self-Defense: Balance Theory, Dissonance Theory, and Transactional Analysis, Dr. C. George Boeree (professor in the psychology dept at Shippensburg U.) takes the concept of structural balance theory that we discussed in class, and places it in its larger social psychological context.  Boeree argues that Heider’s Structural Balance Theory, Festinger’s Dissonance Theory, and Eric Berne’s Transactional Analysis […]

In class we have addressed the idea of Braess’ Paradox and how it applies to transportation networks–we showed that, in one example, the addition of a new road will actually throw off the original Nash Equilibrium, increase everyone’s travel time, and make all travelers worse off as a result.
This idea–that new paths and roads can […]

The Internet revolution and Google have completely restructured information, giving more power to individuals in publishing their ideas on the Internet. Blogs, forums, Pod casts, groups, and personal pages have grown significantly, creating a plethora of individual written content. Our society has trusted Google as the industry leader in organizing all of the […]