“Game Theorist Describes Unintended Consequences of U.S. Counterterrorism Policies”
Link- http://nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=100065&org=SBE
The above article by the National Science Foundation talks about research done in analyzing government strategies when it comes to terrorist incidents. Although dated in mid-2004, it is still worth a read. The particularly interesting part is that the researchers actually use Game Theory […]

The field of neural networking is today being explored rapidly. As Stergiou and Siganos (http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~nd/surprise_96/journal/vol4/cs11/report.html) point out, research had been nearly halted in the field for nearly three decades based on a misconception regarding the ability of a model regarding the mammalian system of vision and its ability to represent different shapes. Until […]

http://www.tech-recipes.com/google_tips481.html
The author of the above article discusses the method and success of the marketing scheme Google used for its beta version of GMail, its new email service. Even before the beta version was released in April 2004, news and rumors about a 1-gigabyte mailbox, Google searching emails, and other features were being discussed in […]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/5735/Digging-for-Diggers-Analysis-of-a-Social-Media-Website
In response to the other 3 posts about Digg.com, I was able to find a recently posted paper published for a class at Georgia Tech that studies the practices and complaints of the top Digg users. I will assume you know basic knowledge of how Digg works. If not check out the other 3 blog […]

…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 […]

    Throughout the semester, we have observed many, simplified models of social networks. While these models reduce to people to simple nodes and edges, the main pattern revealed by these models are revealed all around us. I had one such experience when navigating the Ithaca housing market, searching for a place to live next year.
First, […]

Earlier this semester we discussed Vannevar Bush’s article “As We May Think,” which states that the human brain organizes information through associative memory. This idea treats the mind as a web of nodes with connections all over the place. One thing can be connected to a related (or different) topic. For example, the sight of […]

As we have seen in class, graphs of networks can get messy real fast.  There can be hundreds of very small nodes, thousands of edges, different shaped nodes, colored edges, or directional edges all on top of a map of the United States.  It can often take several minutes of staring at a graph to […]

In January, there was an interesting post on the Scientific American Observations blog about the “most hated Digg comment.” Commenting on Digg works in much the same way that news stories do. Someone posts the comment, and other users “digg” or “bury” the comment based on whether or not the comment is interesting, […]