Speaker: Shreyas Sundaram
Title: Reaching Agreement in Complex Networks: Avoiding the Influence of Extreme Agents
Date: Tuesday, March 20th, 2012
Category: Seminar
Professor Shreyas Sundaram describes a special case of information diffusion where all nodes in the network synchronize (or reach agreement) on some parameter of interest. He focuses on a class […]
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Speaker: Victor Galaz
Title: Can Information Technology Really Help Save the Planet?
Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Category: Talk
Abrupt climate change, “planetary boundaries” and the failure of international institutions to deal with multiple interacting global crises have gained considerable scientific and political attention over the last years. Few sustainability scientists however, […]
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Speakers: Mark Tovey, Michael Neilsen, and Hassan Masum
Title: Open Source Democracy
Date: Monday, February 22, 2010
Category: Talk
Mark Tovey, Michael Nielsen, and Hassan Masum explore how new information and communication technologies might allow for new types of political engagement, problem solving, and collective decision-making. They discuss issues such as collective […]
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