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Albert-László Barabási
2014 003.7 BAR Tigard Lib
n014 p245 "eight articles by Erdös and Rényi that established random graph theory ... listed in Karonski & Rucinski in the book The Mathematics of Paul Erdös Springer 1997" book at OSU and UW
p031 1998 graphing the size of the web with students Réka Albert and Hawoong Jeong
p041 Mark Granovetter social networks
- p043 More likely to learn about job openings through weak ties 28% than strong ties 17%
- p044 strong clusters connected with weak ties better model than Erdös random graph
- p046 unison clapping evolves from audiende random clapping
p047 Steven Strogatz at Cornell, author The Joy of X
p047 Erdös number Jerry Grossman webpage
- my Erdös number is "maybe four, via space advocate Ken Brakke (a now-retired math professor with Erdös number 3)
- p057 The likelihood that a typical document links to your webpage is zero. The likelihood that your CONSIDERATE OF OTHERS and USEFUL webpage CHAINS to most other webpages is very high.
- wrong measure. The "web" is weblike, not a dense multidimensional "theads to everywhere" unrelated jumble. The real question is whether internet users can find what they want, unlike an annoying advertisement that appears on every screen with a "webpage" on it.
p059 Three Albright College students "demonstrate" that Kevin Bacon is connected to everyone in Hollywood by two or three links
p059 The Oracle of Bacon website built from imdb scraping
p065 Gustav von Schmoller shouts "But are there laws of economics?" Economist Vilfredo Pareto dresses as beggar and asks him "can you tell me where I can find a restaurant where you can eat for nothing?" von Schmoller replies "there are no such restaurants ..." and Pareto responds "so there are laws in economics!"
p070 Power law networks (a few nodes with many links, many nodes with few links) are scale free
p072 80/20 rule Pareto principle
- p088 static models unable to generate power laws
p090 Paul Krapivsky
p093 Inktomi search engine developer before 2000, replaced by better Google
p094 De Havilland Cometairframe metal fatigue crashes, informed design of Boeing 707
- p096 "fitness connectivity product" ... author's neologism, no citation
p099 Einstein's Photoelectric effect
p099 Bose-Einstein condensation such as superconductors
p101 Ginestra Bianconi
- p105 in this 2017 book, Unix on most number crunchers, Windows on most PCs, Linux with 2.1%
- in 2025, Windows still dominates desktops, Linux dominates everything else
p110 the July 2 1996 blackout ... a few minutes to several hours
- p113 January 2000 "we" tested internet resilience, model with 80% of nodes removed can still function, scale free is resilient
- p114 Failure disproportionally affects small nodes
p115 Internet and cell(?) networks break only after all nodes removed ... practically, never
p115 Operation Eligible Receiver DoD mock cyber attack
major vulnerabilities, led to United States Cyber Command
- p118 1911 federal protection of sea otters, sea urchins eaten, kelp and finfish increased, protecting coasts from erosion
- p119 more 1996 blackout, see p110 above
- n119 p262 "Model validation for the August 10, 1996 WSCC system outage" IEEE Transactions on Power Systems PSU TK1.I163
- W. Mittlestadt author at BPA - Ted Mittlestaedt's relative?
n185 p270 WIT what is there? archived 2009