The Age of Networks:
Social, Cultural, and Technological Connections

Past Speakers, 2007

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May 1, 2007: Jon Kleinberg, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University
Decentralized Search, Cascading Behavior, and the Structure of On-Line Communities
Co-sponsored with Department of Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series
Selected readings    Slides    Video (requires Real Player)

April 26, 2007: Balazs Vedres, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Historical Approaches to Network Dynamics: Sequencing of network positions, and genealogies of cohesive groups
Selected readings    Slides    Video (requires Real Player)

April 18, 2007: Ben Shneiderman, Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park
Accelerating Discovery and Innovation: Designing Creativity Support Tools
Co-sponsored with CAS/MillerComm
Slides    Video (requires Real Player)

April 16, 2007: Alex (Sandy) Pentland, Media Lab, MIT
Automatic Measurement and Modeling of Human Networks
Slides    Video (requires Real Player)

April 10, 2007: Pedro Domingos, Computer Science, University of Washington
Markov Logic: A Rich Modeling Language for Social Networks
Slides    Video (requires Real Player)

April 6, 2007: Ronald Burt, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago
Some properties of reputation as a governance mechanism in social networks
Slides    Video (requires Real Player)

April 4, 2007: Marc Smith, Microsoft Research Community Technologies Group
Pictures of traces of places, people, and groups: Recent work from the Microsoft Research Community Technologies Group
Slides    Video (requires Real Player)

March 28, 2007: Amnon Rapoport, Department of Management & Organizations, University of Arizona
Choice of Routes in Congested Traffic Networks: Experimental Tests of the Braess Paradox
Slides    Video (requires Real Player)

March 2, 2007: Peter V. Marsden, Sociology, Harvard University
A Network of Influential Conversations among Physicians in a Primary Care Practice
Co-sponsored with the Department of Sociology and the College of Business
Video (requires Real Player)

January 30, 2007: Jonathon Cummings, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Geographically Dispersed Teams and Networks
Slides    Video (requires Real Player)

January 22, 2007: Jennifer Golbeck, Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park
Putting Online Social Networks to Work: Using trust in large, distributed computing systems
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