Speaker: Jukka Pekka Onnela
Title: Harnessing Network Science to Reveal our Digital Footprints
Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2010
Category: Talk

Dr. Jukka Pekka Onnela of Harvard University discusses how social networks are structured by and interact with cell-phone communication patterns. He also outlines his research on how ‘apps’ used in social networking […]

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Speaker: Robert Spekkens
Title: On Ranking Merit: Applying the Page-Rank Algorithm to the Electoral Process
Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Category: Talk

Communities often struggle to rank their members according to some intangible notion of merit using only the opinions of those members and without any pre-existing ranking. Robert Spekkens, a post-doctoral […]

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