Third TAICON Lecture: Albert-Lásló Barabási
Third TAICON Lecture: Albert-Lásló Barabási
Albert-Lásló Barabási on
"The Architecture of Real Networks: From the Web to Social Networks"
Professor Barabási described Networks with complex topology such as society, organic cells, or the World Wide Web. In his presentation Professor Barabási demonstrated how most networks emerge by self-organizing processes that are governed by similar evolutionary laws. Professor Barabási showed that the structure of these complex webs has not only direct consequences on the ability to survive attacks or failures, but on the ability of ideas and innovations to spread as well.
his lecture was the third event of TAICON (The Trans-Atlantic Initiative on Complex Organizational Networks) organized by Prof. Lars-Erik Cederman, ETH, and Prof. David Lazer, Harvard University in partnership with SHARE / Consulate of Switzerland. TAICON is a trans-Atlantic community, based at Harvard and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) that brings together research on social networks and complexity. Further information can be found under:
www.icr.ethy.ch/taicon/index. About 30-40 people attended on both sides of the Atlantic.
This seminar is co-sponsored by the National Center for Digital Government.
The next event in the TAICON series will take place on Thursday, April 20th, 2006.
