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scubacuda writes "What does the Internet have to do with the network of sexual partners? More than you think, according to this Economist article on Albert-Laslo Barabasi's attempt to 'present a general framework for improving the accuracy of Internet models' by treating the net 'as though it were a natural phenomenom.' Dr. Barabasi's findings that the Internet is 'scale free' has a lot of interesting implications: resistance to human failures, as well as vulnerability to malicious attacks. Dr. Barabasi's goal is to create models that are 'statistically indistinguishable from the real Internet. When and if that is achieved, the models should have predictive, as well as descriptive, power.' (BBC and News Factor had stories on his work earlier)"
The linked article is very weak. His homepage is here:
nd.edu/~alb/
The specific article is here:
nd.edu/~networks/PDF/NatureImmunol%202002.pdf
Hopefully Notre Dame can handle the traffic.
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First, "Where Wizards Stay up Late: The Origins of the Internet" gives you a great history lesson on the internet from pre ARPA to the present.7 08214X/qid=1033932106/sr=1-9/ref=sr_1_9/104-182014 6-7795912?v=glance
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/038
Next, "Network models in population biology" talks about how networks form in nature.
http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/item.asp?Catalog=Bo
It's interesting to read the above articles keeping these books in mind because of the clear picture we can gain from nature.
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I recorded a bit of it. Enjoy. It's about 200k mp3.
http://www.boog.co.uk/media/barabasiinterview.mp3
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