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What Does The Internet Look Like?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the and-what-does-it-taste-like dept.

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)"

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  1. Better links ... by jetlag11235 · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

    -- jetlag --

  2. Barabasi was interviewed on Radio 4 by wackybrit · · Score: 5, Informative

    I recorded a bit of it. Enjoy. It's about 200k mp3.

    http://www.boog.co.uk/media/barabasiinterview.mp3

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    mogorific carpentry experiments
  3. Re:Yeah, but what about... by pangloss · · Score: 5, Informative
    Half the world's poulation still hasn't made a phone call
    The current issue of Wired refutes this statistic.