Sim Epidemic

Dotnaught writes "Scientific American has an intriguing story about EpiSims, an outbreak simulator. Designed by Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), it deals with a social networking of a different sort: 'To understand what a social network really is and how it can be used for epidemiology, imagine the daily activities and contacts of a single hypothetical adult, Ann. She has short brushes with family members during breakfast and then with other commuters or carpoolers on her way to work. Depending on her job, she might meet dozens of people at work, with each encounter having a different duration, proximity and purpose.'"

Comments

Internet tools for social net

[Virtual Karma]

Great internet tools like orkut (from google) and frindster help create and maintain your social network. I'm connected to over 7 million people from my orkut social network. Try it out.

Whitehouse approach

[Anonymous Coward]

The government has an interesting approach that you can check out here .

To quote another post, a long time ago.

[Auritribe]

zuma zumma su sah? munna munna zu zah? sa sa mananu zah! ha ha ha ha ha!

Re:CERN did this a couple of months ago

[Redshift]

.. and do you have any sort of reference to back up this vague memory? Unbelievable that this got modded up to +4.